SPONSOR THE INSTITUTE
The Human Innovation Institute was founded on a simple but urgent insight: the world is changing faster than our human, organizational, and institutional capacities are evolving.
We are living through what we call The Great Transition, a period of profound technological, economic, social, and institutional transformation. Existing models for living, working, leading, creating value, and participating in society are being challenged while new models are beginning to emerge. Yet many of these emerging approaches remain fragmented, underdeveloped, and not yet operating at the scale required for the world ahead.
The Human Innovation Institute exists to help map, understand, and advance these frontiers. Our work focuses on the frontier of human advancement, the frontier of organizational advancement, and the frontier of systemic advancement. Across these domains, we study the emerging capabilities, practices, structures, and models that help individuals, teams, organizations, and societies adapt, evolve, and thrive during periods of historic change.
To support this work, we created Human Innovation, a new field dedicated to understanding how humans intentionally navigate transformation and participate in shaping what comes next. Because the challenges and opportunities of the Great Transition do not fit neatly within any single discipline, Human Innovation brings together insights from leadership, innovation, technology, human development, organizational design, systems thinking, economics, culture, and social change into a unified framework for advancement.
This is where our Sponsors play a vital role. It's a partnership in building the field, research ecosystem, institutional infrastructure, and applied initiatives required to advance humanity intentionally. Our Sponsors help accelerate research, activate new programs, support frontier exploration, and strengthen the capabilities needed to navigate one of the most consequential periods of change in modern history.
Together, we are helping build the knowledge, capabilities, institutions, and pathways that enable individuals, organizations, and society to create new growth, new value, and new possibilities at the frontier of human advancement.
WHO SPONSOR THE INSTITUTE
We are seeking mission-aligned individuals, organizations, foundations, investors, family offices, institutions, and corporate leaders who recognize that the challenges and opportunities emerging during The Great Transition require long-term investment, intentional stewardship, and new forms of institutional support.
Our Sponsors are more than supporters. They are founding stewards helping build the infrastructure required to advance human, organizational, and systemic capability during a period of historic change. They provide the patient capital, strategic resources, and long-range commitment necessary to establish research programs, activate Labs, launch initiatives, develop intellectual property, expand public education, and strengthen the Institute's long-term capacity to serve the field of Human Innovation.
Many of our Sponsors also bring important questions, missions, and challenge areas they believe deserve greater attention. Through their engagement with the Institute, Sponsors help inform and shape areas of inquiry, exploration, and investment that align with both their priorities and the Institute's broader mission. This creates a shared agenda where mission-aligned interests can be explored, advanced, and translated into meaningful impact.
Sponsors also participate through the Institute's Founding Council, a formal stewardship body that helps guide the Institute's development during its formative years. Through this mechanism, Sponsors contribute strategic perspective, institutional guidance, and long-term thinking that helps strengthen the Institute's direction, priorities, and effectiveness.
Sponsors play an active role in helping shape the Institute's agenda, priorities, and areas of exploration. Through the Founding Council and ongoing engagement with Institute leadership, Sponsors contribute insight, perspective, stewardship, and long-term thinking that help inform the Institute's development and the advancement of Human Innovation as an emerging field. We seek partners who recognize that building enduring institutions, developing new fields, and creating meaningful societal impact requires patience, collaboration, and sustained commitment over time.
The work of advancing human capability, organizational adaptability, and systemic resilience will not be completed in a single year. It is a long-term undertaking. For this reason, we are looking for Sponsors who view their engagement not as a transaction, but as a multi-year commitment to helping build the knowledge, capabilities, institutions, and initiatives required for what comes next.
WHAT BECOMES POSSIBLE WITH SPONSORSHIP
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.
Help Advance Humanity Intentionally
Support work focused on strengthening human, organizational, and societal capability during a period of profound technological, economic, and cultural transformation. Help ensure that progress is guided with intention, stewardship, and long-term thinking.
SHAPE AN EMERGING FIELD
Contribute to the development of Human Innovation as a new field dedicated to understanding how individuals, organizations, and societies navigate transformation, build capability, and create new possibilities during times of change.
HELP DEFINE WHAT COMES NEXT
Participate in conversations and initiatives exploring the future of leadership, work, technology, human capability, organizational adaptation, and societal advancement.
Help influence the questions that matter before they become mainstream.
Accelerate Mission-Aligned Agendas
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.
Advance challenge areas, opportunities, and priorities that align with both your mission and the Institute's broader frontier agenda. Collaborate on initiatives that translate exploration into meaningful action and impact.
Gain Early Access to Frontier Intelligence
Engage with emerging research, signal intelligence, frameworks, publications, and strategic perspectives from across the frontiers of human, organizational, and systemic advancement.
You contribute, lead and shape human innovation as a new and novel practice.
Connect with founders, executives, researchers, investors, philanthropists, practitioners, and institutional leaders working together to navigate complexity and help shape what comes next.
Participate in a Community of Builders and Stewards
You’ll join us at the edge as a participant in shaping how it takes root in people, organizations, and society.
Enable the creation of research programs, Labs, fellowships, publications, ventures, and applied initiatives designed to generate new knowledge, capability, and impact in the world.
Support New Research, Programs, and Initiatives
You’re not just investing in the future. You’re actively co-creating it.
Help Build an Enduring Institution
Play a foundational role in building a long-term institutional platform dedicated to advancing humanity intentionally through research, education, capability development, ecosystem building, and frontier exploration.
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 an opportunity to help build the research, institutional infrastructure, and field-building capacity required to advance humanity during a period of historic transformation.
We are building the world's first institute dedicated to Human Innovation, an emerging field focused on helping individuals, organizations, and systems intentionally navigate change, build capability, and create new possibilities during The Great Transition. Through research, publications, Labs, partnerships, initiatives, and venture creation, the Institute serves as a platform for advancing human, organizational, and systemic capability at the frontier.
Your sponsorship enables three transformative contributions:
Build the Strategic Infrastructure for Human Advancement: Support the development of the Institute's research programs, publications, Labs, partnerships, technology platforms, ecosystem initiatives, and long-term institutional capacity. Your sponsorship helps create the infrastructure required to advance human, organizational, and systemic capability for years to come.
Help Shape an Emerging Field: As a Founding Sponsor, you participate in the development of Human Innovation as an emerging field of inquiry and practice. Through stewardship, collaboration, and engagement with Institute leadership, Sponsors help shape the agenda, priorities, and areas of exploration that will influence how individuals, organizations, and institutions navigate transformation in the decades ahead.
Access the Frontiers of Human, Organizational, and Systemic Advancement: The Institute operates at the frontier where new capabilities, models, frameworks, and opportunities are emerging. Sponsors gain early access to research, signal intelligence, strategic dialogue, and applied initiatives exploring what is changing, what is emerging, and what may help shape the future.
This is an opportunity to contribute to something larger than any single organization, initiative, or industry. It is a chance to help build an enduring institution dedicated to advancing humanity intentionally and creating new possibilities for future generations.
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.
SEED SPONSOR TIER
Investment Range: Up to $50,000
SPONSORSHIP TIERS
Key Characteristics of Seed Sponsorship
• Early alignment with the Human Innovation Institute and its emerging Themes
• Access to early research, publications, and developing Institute frameworks
• Visibility into Institute activity through regular briefings and updates
• Opportunities for dialogue and light advisory input as research and initiatives evolve
• Participation in sponsor communications and curated conversations with the Institute community
• Recognition as a founding supporter helping seed the Institute’s early growth (Limited Time Only)
• Optional pathways for deeper engagement through expanded collaboration and future sponsorship tiers
Seed Sponsors: Seeding the Frontiers of Human Advancement
Seed Sponsors align their mission with Institute Programs and support the early development of Human Innovation as a discipline and an emerging field. This tier is designed for organizations and stewards who want consistent visibility into the Institute’s work, early access to frontier research, and opportunities to engage in dialogue as new ideas, models, and frameworks begin to take shape. Seed Sponsors gain insight into the signals and questions shaping the frontier while participating in a growing ecosystem of collaborators, researchers, partners, and leaders exploring the future of human advancement. This tier offers alignment with the Institute’s mission and an entry point into the conversations and discoveries shaping the next era of human capability.
FOUNDATIONAL SPONSOR TIER
Investment Range: Up to $450,000
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
Key Characteristics of Foundational Sponsorship
• Activation of frontier-domain priorities through applied Labs, research collaboration, and experimentation
• Direct participation in the Institute’s ecosystem of researchers, Fellows, and partner organizations
• Opportunities to co-develop models, frameworks, tools, and working prototypes
• Structured experimentation cycles that convert frontier insight into deployable applications
• Participation in sponsor gatherings, cross-sector dialogues, and collaborative learning environments
• Strategic content collaboration and coordinated publishing opportunities
• Pathways into venture incubation, joint initiatives, and long-term stewardship of frontier-domain advancement
Foundational Sponsors: Activating Frontier-Domain Progress
Foundational Sponsors play a critical role in building the applied architecture of Human Innovation. At this level, organizations and stewards support the Institute’s work in advancing frontier domains while gaining the opportunity to engage more directly with the ecosystem shaping the discipline. Some Foundational Sponsors participate actively through Labs, research initiatives, and collaborative experimentation that translate frontier insight into practical models and tools. Others choose to support the Institute’s work through strategic stewardship, helping guide priorities and accelerate progress while allowing the Institute’s programs and Fellows to carry the work forward. This tier is designed to provide flexibility for both paths, enabling sponsors to contribute according to their interests and capacity while supporting the development of new capabilities, systems, and frameworks that help organizations and societies navigate the Great Transition.
DISCUSS SPONSORING THE INSTITUTE
ULTRA SPONSOR TIER
Investment Range: Starting at $1,000,000
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Key Characteristics of Ultra Sponsorship
• Endowment-level capital commitment supporting the Institute’s long-term research and operational infrastructure
• Strategic capital allocation across frontier domains, including named Labs, Fellowships, research tracks, and multi-domain initiatives
• Dedicated participation in the Human Innovation Venture Studio and early venture incubation pathways
• Direct strategic engagement with Institute leadership on long-range frontier prioritization and institutional development
• Co-creation of custom multi-year initiatives aligned with the sponsor’s frontier agenda
• Institutional-level visibility and legacy recognition across major publications, media, and the Institute’s historical record
• Flexible capital deployment structures designed around shared priorities and long-term advancement of frontier-domain work
Ultra Sponsors: Powering Frontier Advancement at Civilizational Scale
Ultra Sponsors operate at the highest level of partnership with the Institute, enabling the large-scale advancement of frontier-domain work. This tier represents an endowment-level commitment that supports sustained research, applied experimentation, fellowship activation, new venture creation, and institutional development. Ultra Sponsors collaborate directly with Institute leadership to shape long-range frontier priorities while helping accelerate progress in the domains defining humanity’s future. Through strategic capital deployment and multi-year initiatives, Ultra Sponsors help build the intellectual, institutional, and venture infrastructure required to advance Human Innovation at scale and create lasting impact across individuals, organizations, and society.