COHERENT – the “Corona as a Holistic Environment” Research Network – is an international, multi-disciplinary partnership that aspires to create a holistic understanding of how energy, mass, and information propagate throughout the solar corona, from the Sun’s surface to the heliosphere and back, by knitting together novel approaches to theory, modeling, and observations within a collaborative and highly interconnected research framework. We enable this unified understanding of the disparate physical regimes in the corona by developing new tools for cross-disciplinary scientific analysis, modeling, team communication, and interaction. This cross-disciplinary approach breaks down stovepiping that impedes transformative progress and resulting breakthrough science in heliophysics.