iZnew / HUMAN INTELLIGENCE IN ACTION THE IDEA SHOP / PHILADELPHIA
See life
differently.
There is more to you than a job title. More to a team than an org chart. More to a future than the options you already see. We help you discover what changes when you see with new eyes.
YOUR JOURNEY BEGINS HERE FOUR PERSONAL PATHWAYS · ONE HUMAN APPROACH
Where are you right now?
No one is a category. But it helps to begin somewhere. Choose the stage that feels closest to your life; we’ll help make the experience your own.
Not sure which one fits? That’s a fine place to begin.
THE iZnew WAY A NEW POINT OF VIEW
Most people don’t need another label. They need a way to see themselves, their work, and their future that sets something in motion.
DISCOVER THE PATTERN
NAME THE POSSIBILITY
MAKE IT REAL
iZnew is part of i9 intelligence, bringing its human-intelligence approach to life through personal guidance, programs and bespoke transition experiences.
AN EXPERIENCE, NOT JUST AN EXPLANATION 02 / 06
Change the question. Change what’s possible.
The question you bring often shapes the answers you find. Choose a situation and feel what happens when we look underneath the obvious.
Illustrative prompts to open a conversation, not individual assessment results.
THE QUESTION WE OFTEN START WITH
“What job should I get next?”
WHAT IF WE ASKED INSTEAD…
“Where could who I really am make a difference—and feel alive doing it?”
The search stops being about job titles. It begins to be about contribution and fit.
THREE WAYS TO BEGIN 03 / 06
Where do you want to see differently?
A personal transition. A team that has lost its spark. An educational or coaching program ready for a deeper dimension. Different starting points, the same spirit of discovery.
WHAT A NEW LENS CAN DO NOT JUST INFORMATION. TRANSFORMATION.
Sometimes, a few words change an entire future.
A metaphor isn’t a personality category. It’s a way to hold complicated understanding in a picture you can recognize, remember, and use.
People architect.
Two words helped David Collins see a lifelong calling with startling clarity: not simply to work with people, but to build systems, organizations, and opportunities that help people become more fully themselves.
That lens brought decades of work—from early matching programs to Obik and iZnew—into focus. It was not a label. It was a mission he could build around.
An entrepreneurial finance-news hub.
In an earlier organizational engagement, employees rediscovered what had drawn them to their company. They didn’t describe themselves as departments or titles. They described an entrepreneurial place where financial news and ideas could come alive.
That shared language helped fuel employee-led change projects—including a central team kitchen conceived as a place for conversation and fresh thinking. Culture became something people could create together.
These examples describe David’s historical personal and consulting experience, not claims about current iZnew client engagements. Organization unnamed for privacy.
THOUGHTFUL PROCESS, HUMAN OUTCOME 05 / 06
From awareness to aliveness.
Good insight is both rigorous and human. iZnew combines thoughtful intelligence, meaningful conversation, creative reframing, and next steps you can actually use.
01 / SEE
Find the real pattern.
Go beyond labels to understand motivations, intelligences, attributes, experiences, and the opportunities in front of you.
02 / REIMAGINE
Give it life.
Use revealing questions, stories, and metaphors to turn complex information into a clear, motivating point of view.
03 / ACT
Make a new choice.
Design practical experiments, conversations, decisions, and plans that bring the insight into the world.
Not invented yesterday. Not stuck in yesterday.
iZnew grows from David H. Collins’s four decades exploring what makes human beings and organizations come alive. That lineage includes Harvard nonprofit matching work, extensive assessment and consulting experience, and the pioneering Obik system across predecessor programs and channels.
The legacy is real. The invitation is new: turn intelligence into experiences that help someone see, choose, and act differently.
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“As a veteran Master Certified Coach, seeing it first hand packed a powerful punch.”
Lisa Pachence · Master Certified Coach Excerpt from the existing iZnew website; testimonial approval to reconfirm before publication.
More than a test.
Human intelligence, experienced through a different kind of conversation.
ANOTHER WAY TO SEE
And then there is this moment.
What if we could see time as more than a schedule? David’s evolving XYZ framework explores what we are accomplishing, whom we are attending to, and what this particular moment is for.
X / WHAT AM I DOING?
Y / WHO NEEDS MY ATTENTION?
Z / WHAT IS THIS MOMENT FOR?
PREMIUM PRIVATE EXPERIENCE
Some transitions deserve more than a plan.
Transition Trusts · bespoke engagement
A deeply personal experience for young people and families navigating major educational, career, and life decisions—with careful attention to identity, opportunity, and intentional next steps.
FOR ORGANIZATIONS
What if your people felt it again?
Teams don’t become energized because a slide deck says they should. iZnew helps leaders uncover what people care about, find shared language, and turn insight into change they help create.
YOU’RE ALLOWED TO BEGIN UNCERTAIN.
You don’t need a perfect question. Just a real one.
WORDS FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED THE WORK
A little more clarity. A different life ahead.
“Going through his career program as a college student helped shape my future.” EVAN MACLEAN · COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
“It’s never too early or too late for clarity and transformation.” SHARON BASS · LONG-TERM PARTNER
“A transition I would have hardly noticed, and a trajectory into my future self.” CHASE NEWBOLD · PROGRAM PARTICIPANT
AN OPEN INVITATION
Bring us the question that won’t leave you alone.
Your next conversation could open a different future.