We are living through a period of profound transition. Across technology, work, culture, and governance, the structures that once organized human life are breaking down, while new possibilities are beginning to take shape. The challenge of this moment is not only to understand where decay and disruption are occurring, but to recognize where emergence, reimagining, and rebuilding are already underway and to engage these forces with intention.
The Human Innovation Institute exists to read the world in this way and to participate deliberately in shaping what comes next.
HII VISION
We envision a future in which humans are able to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and accelerating change without losing agency, coherence, or purpose. In this future, individuals, institutions, and societies possess the capabilities required to adapt, contribute meaningfully, and steward collective direction amid continual transformation. Human evolution develops in step with the systems humans shape, enabling a more resilient, intentional, and humane civilization to emerge through the Great Transition. We call this intentional human advancement.
HII MISSION
The Human Innovation Institute helps humanity navigate and shape the Great Transition as we collectively advance the emerging discipline of Human Innovation. We read the world to understand where breakdown and decay are occurring, and where emergence, reimagining, and rebuilding are already taking place. From this reading, we focus our work on the most consequential pressure zones which are areas where human capability, contribution, and stewardship must evolve to meet new conditions.
Through Institute Themes and Frontier Domains, we translate these global dynamics into focused arenas of engagement where new models can be explored, tested, and refined. We engage these domains in collaboration with sponsors, partners, and practitioners through applied research, labs, and shared experimentation, building the capabilities required to shape what comes next.
HII MANIFESTO
We believe the Great Transition demands a human-centered and human-led approach. It requires participation, responsibility, and care in shaping what replaces what is breaking down.
We commit to advancing Human Innovation as a living discipline: one grounded in practice, tested in real conditions, and oriented toward human and systemic flourishing.
We choose engagement over detachment, experimentation over prescription, and stewardship over control. We work across difference, complexity, and uncertainty, resisting simplistic answers and inherited assumptions that are no longer relevant nor valid.
We collaborate with those willing to do the work of building what comes next while developing human capability, reimagining contribution, and stewarding collective direction in a world with shifting maps.
We refuse to reduce human development to performance, technology to inevitability, or the future to extrapolation. We stand for intentional evolution, shared responsibility, and the careful shaping of conditions in which humanity can continue to grow.