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.
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.