There's a future in need of a frame
-Eddie Vedder, Invincible, Earthling Album
The Human Impact FrameworkTM is the impact architecture you and your team need to turn purpose into impact and legacy
About
The Human Impact Framework is the flagship tool of HITiDe (Human Impact Thinking and Design), a movement that bridges experience design and impact theory so people can lead from what matters most in real time for a greater impact over time.
The HIF works as a translation layer between individuals and organizations, between strategy and execution, between the impact you intend and the impact you're making. It gives individuals, teams, and leaders a common language to make sense of the moments that define them, and build real momentum through them.
You're having an impact all the time. The Human Impact Framework helps you make it the one you mean.
"We are not known for our purpose, we are known for our impact."
JANNA JORGENSEN, CREATOR, HUMAN IMPACT FRAMEWORK
What other approaches get wrong about impact
Conventional approaches treat impact as an outcome. Which is not wrong, but it's incomplete.
With humans, impact is also an experience.
The Human Impact SystemTM brings experience design together with impact strategy.
You're Already Having an Impact. Is It the One You Mean to Have?
Most leaders genuinely want to make a difference, but most of them are falling short of that, not because they don't care, but because the tools they've been given were never built for it.
Conventional business approaches are extraordinarily good at one thing: tracking the impact of the business on the world. Strategy frameworks, KPIs, ROI models, they are precise, systematic, and elegant. But the other side of the equation, the impact of the business on its people, and the impact of those people on everything that follows, gets managed with intuition, goodwill, and the occasional engagement survey. That gap is costing you. In meaning, in retention, in energy, in results.
Between humans, impact flows both ways.
What your people experience in the moments that matter shapes what they bring to the next one. That's not soft. That's the mechanism. And right now, most organizations are flying blind on half of it.
The Human Impact Framework is the missing translation layer.
The HIF makes the social logic of your people visible in terms leaders can actually work with. It bridges the gap between how humans experience their work and how organizations make decisions about it.
HITiDe, Human Impact Thinking and Design, is the practical application layer. It's how leaders and organizations move from insight to intentional action.
You don't need to care more. You need a better tool.
Read more about our Human Impact Thinking and DesignTM approach behind the Human Impact Framework.
Our Regenerative Impact Model
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The Human Impact Framework (HIF)
Our flagship tool, the HIF, is a beautiful one-page, personalized infographic that serves as a catalyst for personal and organizational growth. It empowers you to articulate your intentions for impact on others and yourself, helping you activate your higher purpose, develop strategies, build your brand, and create a positive and conscious culture.
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Certification and Training
Become a Certified HIF Guide and unlock the full potential of the framework. Our comprehensive training program equips coaches, consultants, facilitators, and leaders with the tools and knowledge to integrate the HIF into their practices. Join our community of like-minded professionals and enhance your impact as a trusted guide.
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Partnerships and Collaborations
By partnering us, you have the opportunity to implement Human Impact Thinking and Design in your organization or community while you contribute to a growing base of research that helps others like you to activate their purpose. You'll also be contributing to a more equitable and conscious world by enabling free access to the framework for not-for-profit agencies and underserved communities.
What we offer
Impact is a context sport
"Purpose is the difference you want to make.
Impact is the difference you actually make.
Legacy is the lasting difference you're remembered for making."
JANNA JORGENSEN, HIF CREATOR
Who we Serve
Purpose-driven Businesses & Organizations
If you're passionate about making a difference but struggle to translate purpose into impactful strategies, we are here to help. The HIF will help you align your purpose, strategy, and impact, empowering you to create positive change within your organization and beyond.
Research Partners
Collaborate with us to advance research on human impact, organizational dynamics, and the effectiveness of the HIF. Together, we can contribute to the knowledge base in the field and drive evidence-based insights. We allow partnering institutions and organizations to open-source all knowledge, resources, and materials that result from our collaborations.
Leaders & Teams within Organizations and Communities
Improve connection, collaboration, and clarity within your teams. The HIF provides a common language and framework for building connected, purpose-driven cultures, enabling you to manage energy and navigate change with greater confidence.
Not-for-Profit Organizations
Support the people behind your mission by co-creating and designing your future in a way that includes all voices, including those who you aim to most directly impact. The HIF can help you give everyone a voice as you explore the best of what is, what was, and what could be.
Coaches, Consultants & Facilitators
Enhance your toolbox with the HIF and boost your clients' impact. Use our basic HIF for free, or consider our certification program, which equips you with the skills and knowledge to guide others in unlocking their full potential and fostering conscious impact.
Inter-agency Collaboratives
The HIF supports larger-scale, social impact efforts by complementing rather than replacing the existing frameworks that already work well, such as Collective Impact. The HIF can help you nagivate inter-agency dynamics and build a bridge between what happens in real-time with larger scale impacts over-time.
Introducing Human Impact Thinking and Design
Since 2018, a North American and UK working group has been co-creating Human Impact Thinking and Design (HITiDe)™, a new approach to strategy, innovation, and collaboration informed by Human-Centered Design, Interpersonal Neurobiology, and Appreciative Inquiry.
HITiDe is about value delivery. Where most approaches focus on value creation, HITiDe activates plans, builds momentum toward goals, and helps people navigate and celebrate progress.
Its master design canvas is the Human Impact Framework (HIF); a sense-making and action-taking tool that tells the whole story of impact, including the half that usually gets left out.
The HIF can be used in whole or in part by purpose-driven organizations and individuals to:
The approach that makes the HIF work
Lead through Disruption
Build Better Strategy
Activate your Values
Make hard calls without losing the trust and connection that make organizations worth working for
Build a Culture of Connection
Bridge the gap between plan formation and human activation so that your strategy doesn't stall
Amplify your Impact
Turn core values from wall art into working logic that drives real decisions, actions, and progress
Own your Story of Impact
Co-create an environment where intentional and natural thriving work together as a system rather than compete
When your impact on people and your impact on the world are one system, both get stronger
Add the human layer to your impact story and show that you are a force that tips fortune in the favor of others.
