A practice built around
one question.
What's the quality of how the people in this room relate to each other — and to the work? Everything else follows from that.
Social Fabric is a practice founded by Jonas Altman in 2003. We work with leaders and teams on the thing that determines everything else: Relational Intelligence — RQ. Not a framework. A lens. And increasingly, the edge that separates teams that function from teams that thrive.
We're boutique by design. Small by intention. We've never wanted to scale what shouldn't be scaled.
Jonas wrote Shapers and is working on another book. He's spent over two decades in rooms where real work was either happening or being carefully avoided. He knows the difference — and has built a practice around creating the conditions for the former.
We work globally, in person, with a small number of organisations each year. We're not a consultancy with a bench. We're a practice with a point of view.
Three things we keep coming back to.
The relationship is the work.
Most teams treat relationships as the context for the work. We treat the relationship as the work itself. That shift changes everything about how a day together gets designed.
Presence is a practice.
What you bring into the room — your state, your attention, your willingness to be moved — matters more than your methodology. We work on this every day. So do the teams we work with.
This is not soft.
Teams that relate well make better decisions, hold tension without fracturing, and do better work together. That's not a feeling. That's the edge. The teams that get this are the ones we want to work with.
The work speaks.
We've worked with Google, The Guardian, Oracle, Sony Music, BBC, and M.I.T. — and with organisations you've never heard of that do work that matters. The size of the logo on the door has never been the point.
Come to The Feast.
One day. In person. Designed for real relational work to happen.
See The FeastWe work with a small number of organisations each year.