“This book is just what the field needs: a clear, thorough guide to starting up and energizing a network.”

“Addressing today’s wicked challenges requires aligning your organization’s purpose, actions and capacity with others in the living nested systems you are part of. This book is an inspiring and helpful resource for those who want to contribute to and be part of tomorrow’s connected ecosystems.”

“Networks are the organizing system of the future, and this book is your guide. If you’re a foundation leader or philanthropist, it will transform the way you approach your work."

“This is the book systems change practitioners have been waiting for: comprehensive, clear, concise, compelling, and eminently actionable. Ehrlichman brings together an impressively diverse range of sources, weaving their insights into an inspiring set of tools for transformation. His gift for language makes complex topics seem intuitive; it's a beautiful and generous distillation of existing best practice, extended through Ehrlichman's own deep practice and commitment. It's a gift.”

“This book beautifully illustrates how networks can catalyze and support transformational change. I found it to be a clarion call to appreciate the power of networks and to be more intentional with the networks I am involved in.”

“These actionable insights on fostering collaboration couldn’t be more timely, as we see more than ever the need for greater understanding of networks as a force for social change in a hyperconnected, yet siloed world. This book offers a rich source of ideas and inspiration to strengthen network relationships at the heart of our work and to help deepen our collective impact.

"Impact Networks brings clarity to the rapidly emerging landscape of how civil society can find synergy and create impact today. Ehrlichman draws upon years of experience as a network leader along with his deep relationships in the field to give us a clear blueprint for how to understand, create and support the collaboration we crave."

“Impact Networks brings to light the fundamental theory of fields behind networks with purpose and networks for development, which until now had been missing. It is a masterpiece as it pins down the definition, understanding and complex framing of impact networks in a practical and far-ranging way.

“David Ehrlichman has written a clear, passionate and most useful book about networks. I have devoted my professional life to the development of networks among leaders of social movements that define our day, and in this book we have a tool that brings it all together.”

“This book is an engaging invitation to action that inspires us to roll up our sleeves and collaborate. Drawing on a profound range of personal experience, learning and deep thinking, David Ehrlichman makes a compelling case for impact networks as an effective, sustainable and scalable way to spark and steward social change.”

“Perhaps the most shocking interruption of white modernity is the idea that we are not alone and have never been. Instead of being Newtonian atoms free-floating in empty space, we are sensuous networks and assemblages of agency and potential. Upon this scandalous idea rests a strange hope – one that is appropriate to our tense times: no longer that we change the world in some mechanistic fashion, but that we meet our odd cousins and be transformed in the gasp of encounter. This book is a map to the strangeness of networks. We should all read it.”

“This century will be defined by whether we tap into our hive mind and build the networks we need to solve problems together. Impact Networks is an essential guide for how to do both.”

“This book should be required reading for all new paradigm leaders and change agents. As our society becomes increasingly complex and chaotic, leaders who do not practice what this book teaches are dooming themselves to the dustbin of history. It is only through networks, and the forward-thinking leaders who form and steward them, that humanity will address the challenges that face us.

“Human survival and thriving, including health, justice and learning, depend in large part upon critical connections and flows. The call of our times is then about deftly (and humbly) working with our interconnected reality. David Ehrlichman’s gift helps readers to better sense and act in networked ways, through the offering of real and inspiring examples, useful concepts and frameworks, and the encouragement to engage with complexity and messiness for the sake of a more promising future.”

“Being able to acknowledge complexity and the value of networks is one thing, being able to understand them is another. Then being able to translate and teach it is another level. David does an incredible job doing all three WITH us through this book...it serves as your companion guide in an accessible, insightful, and tangible way.”

For years the Converge network has quietly become leaders in the developing and debugging of complex networks. That knowledge is being generously offered to the world, at a time when diverse groups must come together through complexity and difference for the sake of humanity.”