November 2025
Update
We’ve been connecting and speaking with dozens of mutual benefit partners about the new and novel discipline of Human Innovation that we’re co-creating at the Institute. The conversations have been expansive and catalytic. Leaders across sectors are increasingly recognizing that in our world saturated with technology, the defining advantage is human capability including the ability to adapt, imagine, and lead what’s next.
We’ve also been busy building and shipping. What’s emerging is an ecosystem that fuses research, labs, community, and a venture studio into a properly structured and modern think tank. Over the past year, we’ve been shaping the core architecture of the Human Innovation Institute, including the Fellowship Program, a growing suite of Labs, and a new portfolio of tools and intellectual property designed to assist and support the Institute’s mission. Together, these elements form the foundation for how Human Innovation will evolve and scale in the years ahead.
This update is a window into that work and a look at what’s been built including what’s coming next, and how you can engage as a founding member, sponsor, or collaborator in this next phase of the journey.
Reading the World
We’re living through one of the most dynamic and disorienting chapters of The Great Transition. Each week, the signals grow louder. Artificial intelligence continues to saturate our work and personal lives, blurring the lines between augmentation and automation. Major corporations are announcing sweeping layoffs as business models strain to adapt. Within our own community, we’re seeing an unprecedented number of career pivots and work transitions where people are rethinking not only what they do, but why they do it.
The extended U.S. government shutdown has added another layer of uncertainty to an already fragile system, underscoring how institutional volatility now touches nearly every domain. And just last week, U.S. debt reached an all-time high which is simply another reminder of the structural imbalances that define this era.
Reading The World right now requires more than information and data. It requires discernment and synthesis as well as the capability to sense patterns, to hold paradox, and to see opportunity in the midst of disruption. This is the focus of Human Innovation: to cultivate the human capability required to intentionally navigate The Great Transition.
Offerings Update
Across the Institute, our core offerings are coming to life as an integrated ecosystem. The Fellowship Program, our suite of Labs, and our expanding body of research and writing each play a distinct role in advancing the discipline of Human Innovation and further building the ecosystem that supports it. Together, they form the architecture through which provocations spark insights, research drives media and content, and content drives experimentation. These offerings are focused on enabling individuals, organizations, and systems to evolve with intention in the midst of systemic transition.
Fellowship Program (Announced Soon)
The Fellowship Program has become the cornerstone of how the Institute brings Human Innovation to life in partnership with organizations, teams, and forward-looking leaders. Each fellowship is designed as a customized collaboration built around one or more of the Institute’s three core operating logics: Applied Transformation, Systemic Stewardship, and Human and Disciplinary Development. The first version of the Fellowship Program is being finalized and we've begun active conversations with early sponsors to co-create tailored engagements that align their strategic priorities. These fellowships will serve as live, applied initiatives where we apply the discipline of human innovation to produce tangible outcomes.
Labs
Our Labs serve as the application engine and experimental spaces of the Institute where new ideas and models are tested, developed, and prototyped. Over the past few months, we’ve launched and refined a series of Labs exploring frontiers such as personal ambition, understanding the dynamics of our world and markets, and the integration of artificial intelligence into human capability. Each Lab is structured as a cohort-based, practice-driven experience that takes place over 30 days. From the Ambition 2026 Lab to the Personal AI Strategy Lab and the Work Models in the Great Transition Lab, participants learn new frameworks and actively shape them. These Labs form the connective tissue between research, community, and venture development, ensuring that Human Innovation remains grounded in practice and oriented toward outcomes.
Research and Writing
Our research and publishing efforts continue to deepen the foundation of the discipline and expand the reach of Human Innovation. This work includes the ongoing development of our provocations series, which translates signals from the Great Transition into actionable insight; the forthcoming e-publication Human Innovation: The Art and Practice of Becoming; and the emerging Articles of Human Innovation, which articulate the core principles and commitments of this new discipline. Alongside these, we are continuing to publish reflections, reports, and field notes at our Substack which maps the forces reshaping work, identity, and human capability. Together, these outputs form the intellectual backbone of the Institute, ensuring that our practices are matched by a body of thought capable of guiding the transition ahead.
An Invitation To Co-Create
The discipline of Human Innovation is still being written, and we’re inviting you to help shape it. What we are building is a living lab that grows through collaboration, experimentation, and shared purpose. As we move from concept to practice, we’re looking for partners, practitioners, and pioneers who see the same horizon we do, a future where human capability becomes the primary driver of progress.
Whether through fellowship sponsorship, participation in upcoming Labs, contributions to research, or collaboration on ventures that apply Human Innovation, this is an open call to co-create. The Institute exists to advance a collective frontier, one that requires many minds, diverse perspectives, and a shared commitment to designing a more adaptive and regenerative future.
