Established in the Chicagoland area in 2018, Sonrise International LLC is a management consulting firm specializing in project management and change management with a DEI ethnic plurality focus. The firm serves clients in the Pharmaceutical, Insurance, Healthcare, and government industries. Sonrise International leverages change to bring best-in-class project and change management solutions to companies in an ever-changing global marketplace. This is achieved by providing its clients with innovative strategies and solutions that build capability, and increase organizational effectiveness and performance.
Prior to establishing Sonrise International LLC, the company founder, Annette Harris set up office in the heart of downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, at 530 Boston Avenue during a period when the nation was experiencing political, racial and economic uncertainties. Duirng this period, the firm built project management services and created simulations that would provide multicultural education to businesses, universities and schools.
Subsequently, Harris began traveling throughout the State of Oklahoma, Texas and Florida where she solved organizational problems, and promoted an appreciation and acceptance of cultural diversity and change management through round-table discussions and learning programs with c-suite executives, managers and employees at the FAA, the US Core of Engineers, Verizon, the Florida Dept. of Children Services and Universities such as Oklahoma University, Langston University and Oklahoma State University, among others.
The company later moved to Illinois and subsequently to Chicago and opened an office in Atlanta where the firm continued managing a portfolio of businesses, including state government and higher education institutions in areas of project management, change management and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI).
Sonise International mission continues to focus on helping corporations find innovative solutions through creative problem solving mechanisms that builds capability, increase effectiveness and performance through proven science-based project management and change management principles. As part of its philosopy, the firm contends this is best achieved through equipping employees with the required tools, techniques and resources needed to build sustainable corporate solutions in an uplifting learning work environment.
Consequently, tremendous value is placed on human capital initiatives, valuing diversity, integrity and servant leadership principles such as:
1) Listening
2) Empathy
3) Healing
4) Awareness
5) Persuasion
6) Conceptualization, and
7) Foresight
It is through the application of this carefully guided approach combined with digital sofitware development methods that Sonrise International improves organizational effectiveness, boost employee morale and performance and increase corporate profitability and sustainability.
