HII Sponsors
Sponsorship Overview
The Human Innovation Institute exists to build the intellectual, practical, and institutional infrastructure required for humanity to navigate the Great Transition. As inherited, historical systems of work, leadership, and identity strain and fragment, there is an urgent need for new ways of understanding, developing, and exercising human capability at scale. Sponsorship enables the Institute to pursue long-horizon work that traditional funding and models struggle to support, including original research, applied experimentation, and the disciplined development of Human Innovation as a field of practice. Rather than transactional marketing or passive philanthropy, sponsorship represents a strategic investment in future-shaping capacity, helping seed the ideas, capabilities, and operating models that will influence how people live, work, lead, and evolve as new societal forms take shape.
What Sponsorship Is (and Is Not)
Sponsorship at the Human Innovation Institute is a commitment to advancing shared understanding and capability at the frontier of human development during a period of systemic change. Sponsors support Institute-led research, Labs, gatherings, and capability-building initiatives that are designed to explore, test, and evolve new models of human contribution and leadership. Sponsorship is not consulting, client service, or program delivery, and it does not involve directing outcomes or controlling findings. The Institute maintains intellectual independence while engaging sponsors as aligned stakeholders who value insight, coherence, and long-term impact over short-term returns. This structure is designed for organizations and individuals who are thinking beyond immediate optimization toward the deeper work of shaping conditions for future human and societal flourishing.
Sponsorship, Institute Themes, and Frontier Domains
The Institute’s work is organized around a set of Institute Themes that define the major pressure zones shaping the Great Transition, and a set of Frontier Domains that translate those themes into concrete arenas where applied exploration and experimentation occur. Sponsorship is aligned to this structure rather than to isolated initiatives, allowing support to remain coherent as conditions evolve. Many sponsors already have investments, initiatives, or strategic questions that intersect with one or more Frontier Domains, and these intersections become natural points of alignment with the Institute’s research, Labs, and outputs. This approach ensures that sponsorship is grounded in real-world relevance while remaining future-oriented, supporting work that operates across individual, organizational, and societal levels without being confined to any single one.