SPONSOR THE INSTITUTE
The Human Innovation Institute was founded on a simple but urgent insight: the systems, mindsets, and practices that once helped humanity thrive are no longer sufficient for the complexity of this moment. We are living through a civilizational inflection point - what we call The Great Transition. Our systems of leadership support, meaning, and value are simultaneously eroding while being rebuilt.
Human Innovators will be the ones who reimagine and rebuild.
The Human Innovation Institute exists to develop and embed a new practice of Human Innovation that we have created. It is a field dedicated to understanding how we transform personally, collectively, and systemically. Our role is to equip individuals, organizations and institutions with the frameworks, tools, and practices to do so intentionally.
This is where the Institute's Sponsors come in. These engagements are strategic partnerships that help us co-author the practice and discipline of human innovation. Our sponsors embody the spirit and practice of human innovation and are drawn to share their knowledge, wisdom, expertise, and resources with others through their engagement with the Institute.
Your Sponsorship is a way to translate personal excellence into collective advancement. To ensure your story, knowledge, and insight don't fade into isolation, but become part of something much larger than yourself.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Our sponsors are high performers who’ve operated at the frontier. They are professional athletes, exited entrepreneurs, elite creatives, and systems thinkers who have lived the cost and reward of excellence. Others are teams and organizations that have been leading quietly at the edge. They're mission-driven companies, research labs, investment firms, and cultural institutions seeking to align their mission with something more enduring than a product or quarterly outcome.
Across all types, our sponsors are united by one thing: they are no longer content with isolated success. They are looking for a space, a field, and a community where their experience, resources, and vision can be put to work in service of something much larger than themselves. They want to shape what comes next not just for their own domains, but for the evolution of human capability itself.
Our Sponsorships necessitate long term commitments critical for transforming individuals, teams and organizations. Reimagining and rebuilding systems that no longer serve will take years and substantial effort. Our intention with founding the Human Innovation Institute is to provide the critical support necessary to lead our community and members through transformations which require commitments over long time horizons. We ask this of our Sponsors as well.
SPONSORSHIP: THE OPPORTUNITY
SPONSORSHIP IS A STRATEGIC BET ON HUMAN POTENTIAL
For individuals, teams, and organizations operating at the frontier of human advancement, the Human Innovation Institute is a catalyst for everything they’ve been seeking to create, contribute to, or become.
You Become a
Strategic Co-Author
of the Future
This isn’t passive philanthropy where you donate and hope something happens. You are helping shape the direction, orientation, and cultural embedding of a practice that integrates research, meaning, capability development, and systems innovation.
You’re Building a New Discipline
Human Innovation is a new to the world discipline and practice that you will be helping to found.
Your sponsorship helps establish the frameworks, language, legitimacy and the organization itself for a discipline that will shape how people grow, lead, and create well into the future.
You Activate Your Legacy in Real Time
Your support becomes a signal to others like you, to the next generation, and to the systems ready for reinvention.
Your financial support is an act of alignment that reinforces your identity, values, and voice as a founder.
You Leave a Mark On The World and the Culture
You’re helping to create a new and better future.
This is the rare opportunity to put your name behind a field that will outlive you and define the next era of human development.
This is cultural infrastructure for a world in transition and you’re helping lay its foundation.
Human Innovation is a rewiring of how humans operate. When you partner with the Human Innovation Institute, you help redesign the logics that shape how we learn, relate, build, and lead. This is the logic of a post-collapse world, and you are placing the first bricks.
You Join a Fellowship of Frontiersmen and Cartographers
You’ll be in the company of other high performers, cultural architects, and institutional pioneers who are also navigating the frontier of human advancement choosing to lead with vision, not fear.
You contribute, lead and shape human innovation as a new and novel practice.
You’ll receive access to our most advanced insight tools, strategic frameworks, and experimental field models from cognitive cartography to system maps to insights from the frontier of human advancement.
You Gain Access to Emergent Intelligence and Real-World Prototypes
You’ll join us at the edge as a participant in shaping how it takes root in people, organizations, and society.
Unlock joint venture opportunities for long-term collaboration on new initiatives born from the Institute. Joint Venturing includes building alongside us by developing new ventures, programs, and initiatives that emerge from the Institute’s core work.
You Gain a Seat at the Table Where New Ventures Are Born
You’re not just investing in the future. You’re actively co-creating it.
You Align Your Resources with a Mission That Matters
It’s a rare opportunity to channel your influence into a mission that is holistic across capabilities, systems, and cultural foundations that humanity requires now. It is something regenerative, future-facing, and fundamentally necessary to society.
You’re putting your name and your resources behind something that will define this era and shape the next.
WHY SPONSOR THE INSTITUTE
About HII’s Leadership
Sponsoring the Human Innovation Institute is more than funding an organization: it’s a seat at the table where the next human systems are being designed and a chance to help co-create the future.
We are building the world’s first institute dedicated to Human Innovation. A new and novel discipline designed to help individuals, organizations, and systems intentionally transform in an era of accelerating complexity and collapse.
Your sponsorship enables three transformative contributions:
Build the Strategic Infrastructure of the Institute: You’re funding the backbone of an entire field of practice: research labs, technology platforms, global networks, and the foundational structures that will shape how we learn, lead, and build for generations.
Co-Create a New Discipline and Its Practice: As a sponsor you're a founding architect. You will help define the principles, tools, and practices of Human Innovation, shaping how the world understands and cultivates the capability to adapt, evolve, and transform.
Gain Access to the Frontier of Human Advancement: The Institute is a signal-rich environment. Sponsors gain early access to emerging insights, frameworks, and prototypes across the personal, cultural, and generative frontiers of what’s working, what’s breaking, and what’s being built next.
This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to contribute to something foundational allowing you to shape the next human epoch.
To ensure long-term impact and sustained relevance, the Human Innovation Institute’s funding strategy unfolds beyond the prelaunch phase and into three distinct phases across 3.5 years, each building on the last to progressively mature the Institute and advance our mission.
STRATEGIC USE OF FUNDS
The Human Innovation Institute is led by our co-founders Tommy Knoll and Joss Warburton. They have extensive experience working in corporate innovation, personal development, and venture building. Together they are leading the mission to create the novel discipline of Human Innovation in order to intentionally advance humanity.
ANCHOR PACKAGE
($450K)
SPONSORSHIP PACKAGES
Targeting 3-4 Anchor Funders
Mission Alignment at a deep level
Establishing the novel discipline of human innovation
Stewardship of the Institute
Invite to Join Partners Council )select funders, elders, and advisors)
Opportunity to become a joint venture partner with the institute
Listed as Founding Funders
Founding Architects of a New Discipline
Anchor Partners play a foundational role in the birth of a new practice. This is an opportunity for both sponsorship and stewardship. Your contribution directly supports the creation and codification of Human Innovation as a novel discipline designed to help people, systems, and societies evolve in a moment of accelerating collapse and creation. The Institute is where human capability is cultivated through active practice, deep inquiry, and connection with others building what comes next.
Anchor Partners are invited into the inner architecture of the Institute as stewards and co-creators. This includes membership in the Partners Council - a trusted circle of funders, elders, and advisors guiding strategic decisions, offering wisdom, and shaping how the practice evolves. You will help ensure that Human Innovation stays grounded in relevance, rigor, and real world impact.
This level also unlocks the potential for long-term collaboration on new initiatives, products, or ventures born from the Institute. You will be publicly recognized as one of our Founding Funders, with lasting visibility in our communications, media, and cultural history. A space where deep alignment with values, influence, and foresight converge.
To become an Anchor Partner is to place a long-term bet on what comes next. It is a signal of strategic commitment to building the capabilities humanity now requires to advancement in a world transitioning and being reinvented.
CORE FUNDERS
($250K)
Each phase will include targeted investments across six strategic domains:
Infrastructure & Leadership – building a world-class core team
Media & Marketing – driving awareness, engagement, and legitimacy
Technology – developing platforms that enable the Human Innovation OS
Community – curating and cultivating a high-agency global network
Research – pioneering the novel discipline of Human Innovation
Endowment – establish the longevity of the Institute
Targeting 6-8 Core Funders
Opportunity to co-develop IP and programs
Participate in design sprints and early-stage prototypes
Shape first applications of Human Innovation
Inclusion in Institute marketing materials and sponsorship listing
Join Venture Partnership Opportunitities
Listed as Founding Funders
Founding Partners in Co-Authoring the Future
Core Funders are active contributors to the evolution and expression of the Human Innovation practice. This level of sponsorship is for those who want to do more than simply support the work. They want to build it from the inside with the founding team. As a Core Funder, you play a pivotal role in shaping how the practice of Human Innovation comes to life in real-world contexts.
You’ll be invited to co-develop intellectual property and programmatic offerings, participating directly in design sprints and early-stage prototypes that give form to the tools, methods, and applications of this new practice. This is hands-on collaboration with our core team, partners, and members, focused on solving complex challenges, testing new frameworks, and building infrastructure for human advancement.
Core Funders help define the first use cases and applied experiments of Human Innovation. You'll help to design how it is practiced, taught, integrated, and scaled. You’ll be recognized in our public materials as a Founding Funder with opportunities to shape the initiatives that emerge from the Institute’s work. This level unlocks joint venture opportunities for long-term collaboration on new initiatives born from the Institute.
This level is for those who want to shape the early form and function of a practice designed to meet the moment. You’re helping activate the evolution of human capability, in collaboration with others who are designing the future.
DISCUSS SPONSORING THE INSTITUTE
FOUNDING DONORS
($150K)
Click the link below to book time with the founders of the Insitute to discuss how we can accelerate the advancement of humanity together. Alternatively, you can email us by clicking on the “Contact Us” button in the bottom left of this page.
Targeting 10-12 Core Funders
Participate in first applications of Human Innovation
Community Leader
Inclusion in Institute marketing materials and sponsorship listing
Joint Venturing Invitations
Listed as Founding Funders
Visible Builders of the Human Innovation Movement
Founding Donors are among the first to bring the Human Innovation practice into action. This level is for those who believe in the urgency of this work and want to be part of its earliest expressions. As a Founding Donor, you’ll have the opportunity to participate in the first real-world applications of Human Innovation, helping us test, adapt, and refine the tools and frameworks that will shape this new and novel discipline.
You’ll also step into a visible role as a Community Leader, helping to seed a high-agency network of builders, learners, and systems leaders aligned around capability advancement and intentional evolution. Your participation helps signal a belief in the work through active involvement in bringing it to life.
Founding Donors are included in Institute marketing materials and sponsorship listings, ensuring you are publicly recognized for your early and essential role. You will also be named among our Founding Funders, ensuring your contribution is woven into the long-term history of the Institute.
This tier is for those who want to stand with us at the beginning as visible participants in a transition into the next version of humanity. You’re helping lay the groundwork for a new practice, a new community, and a new future.