About The Communiverse
We design the social system around work.
The Communiverse is both a framework and a practice.
Everyone has a social ecosystem, the individuals, groups, places and spaces that shape their human experience. Whether it is accidental or designed on purpose, it directly shapes how trusted, connected and supported people feel at work and in life.
We work with organisations through certification, research briefings, speaking and workshops. We work with individual leaders through Social Wealth Activation, so they can map and strengthen their own social ecosystem.
Social Wealth is what we strive for. Social Health becomes a natural and sustained outcome
A conversation about the science of connection.
Watch the first 33 seconds of Shelley's conversation with Professor Robin Dunbar.Made by hand
Glass parlour beads. Clay. A living social ecosystem.
The framework was first made by hand, in glass parlour beads and clay, before it became the mark you see here. Those first pieces gave the rings a physical life before they found their way into this quieter form.
The story behind the mark
This mark signifies bringing your relationships, your social capital, into the light, and activating them.
Everyone already has a social ecosystem: the individuals, groups, places and spaces that shape our human experience. Much of it sits in the dark, untended, even as it shapes how connected, supported and alive we feel.
The rings represent that living ecosystem, and the coral sweeps upward because connection only counts once it is activated.
The founder
Meet Shelley Doyle.
I am Shelley Doyle, a Social Wealth Strategist and founder of The Communiverse, helping leaders responsible for organisational health, culture and employee engagement embed social health into policy, communications and leadership behaviours, so their distributed teams feel connected, supported and relationally resourced. I also work directly with leaders navigating relocation or remote work to intentionally design their social ecosystem with rituals that nourish and support them, so they can feel more socially wealthy and relationally resourced in this new chapter.
I have spent five years in this field, researching it, applying it and teaching the Relational Design Method. My Master of Arts research at Royal Roads University, supported by a Mitacs Accelerate Award, drew in data from more than 1,200 leaders and was presented at Social Capital 2026. I have spoken on Social Health in professional leadership at conferences, to leadership teams and to professional bodies across three continents. I host the Rediscovering Connection podcast, now 41 episodes in, and I learn from every guest. Professor Corey Keyes, whose early work on social wellbeing shaped how I understand it. Priya Rose of Fractal NYC, who has built a thriving community school for people who want to learn and connect in New York. Seth Kaplan, who gifted me the term social wealth, and whose insights helped me build social capital in a new town. Nim de Swardt, whose passion for intergenerational relationships is contagious. And Dr Robin Dunbar, whose research helped me picture how many connections we are able to hold in different spheres of intimacy. Before this, I spent 15 years in professional communications and leadership.
In 2021, I made a mid-career move from the UK to Canada with my family to study. My Master of Arts research at Royal Roads University explored how relational investment shapes the Social Health of remote and hybrid people leaders.
Thesis: “Leading with Social Wealth: How Relational Investment Shapes the Social Well-Being of Remote and Hybrid People Leaders in Canada”, Royal Roads University, 2025.
As someone who has led remotely, navigated moves, and raised children at a distance from extended family, I have experienced what it means to have strong social capital and still feel deeply disconnected.
I have lived in eight cities, led distributed teams and relocated repeatedly. That lived experience is why I built this work. I wanted better language than loneliness alone, and practical ways for people to understand what resources them socially.
I host Rediscovering Connection, with guests including Robin Dunbar, Corey Keyes, Kiffer Card and Tristan Claridge.
I have spoken at TEDxVictoria Salon, DisruptHR YVR, CPHR BC and Yukon, Camosun College and Royal Roads University.
The work
We make connection part of everyday leadership.
We help leaders and organisations shape the future of work by designing relational rituals into leadership and everyday working life.
We help organisations establish a baseline, identify priorities and track changes in perceived Social Health over time.
- 01Reduce relational risk.
- 02Design the social ecosystem.
- 03Embed Social Health into leadership behaviours, culture and systems.
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We believe the way we work is a choice.
The method
A practical way to strengthen Social Health.
The Communiverse Method integrates academic research, real-world corporate intervention, and structured assessment frameworks to help organisations assess and strengthen Social Health across distributed work.
Social wealth isn't built through one-off interventions. It's built through small, intentional habits, grounded in agency, intimacy, trust, impact, and balance.
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