Amplify your Impact
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The Human Impact Framework helps purpose-driven difference-makers align their purpose with their impact to leave a legacy.
"We are not known and remembered by our purpose, we are known and remembered by our impact."
JANNA JORGENSEN, CREATOR, HUMAN IMPACT FRAMEWORK
Rethink Impact, Unlock Potential
Work has become a source of stress and distress for leaders and employees alike, especially for those who care about making a difference. While leaders struggle to inspire their teams, improve performance, and retain talent; employees struggle to find meaning and a reason to keep trying. And all of this is taking place in the context of unprecedented uncertainty and change.
Here's the plain truth. Once the negative impact of work on your people exceeds the positive impact of your people at or on work, you're not only out of alignment, you're out of impact. And that's a serious problem for your bottom line.
"Purpose is the difference you want to make. Impact is the difference you actually make."
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The root of these challenges is NOT a lack of purpose, it's a lack of impact (or, at least, the wrong type of impact).
Greater clarity and focus on purpose - the difference you want to make - is not enough. To address these challenges you need to improve your clarity and focus on your impact - the difference you actually make. Once you do that, you will find how you can unlock greater meaning, fulfillment and well-being at work at critical points-in-time, and over time.
Are you ready to dispense with pretense?
The Human Impact Framework, and its underlying approach, Human Impact Thinking and Design (HiTiDe), offers a more common sense and realistic understanding and approach to impact; one that is rooted in the human experience. After all, "it's your impact - not your purpose - that creates your legacy" (Janna Jorgensen, Creator, Human Impact Framework).
Traditional views of impact are misaligned with the human experience.
We need to stop treating impact as only a distant, disembodied outcome - as if it lives only on a report or a spreadsheet. Sure, that could be part of the story. But here’s the whole truth about impact between humans:
The Human Impact Framework is an elegant solution that transforms how we understand, approach, and manage impact.
You're creating an impact all the time. But are you actually creating the impact you want?
Since 2018 we've been proving that maintaining your impact over time is possible, but it will take some rethinking, retooling, and rediscovery. Discover how the Human Impact Framework can help you unlock new levels of meaning, engagement, and fulfillment—both for yourself and for the people you lead.
"Human impact flows both ways.
Human impact is immediate and dynamic.
We don’t just create an impact—we experience it, too.
And when we create impact, we, too, are impacted, in return."
JANNA JORGENSEN, CREATOR, HUMAN IMPACT FRAMEWORK
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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
Human Impact is all about the context of the moment for the humans who share it
"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
Introducing Human Impact Thinking and Design
Since 2018 we have been working to launch the field of Human Impact Thinking and Design (HiTiDe) as a powerful approach to strategy, innovation and collaboration. It is informed by many other disciplines and approaches including Human-Centered Design, Interpersonal Neurobiology, and Appreciative Inquiry.
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What is it?
HiTiDe is about value delivery. It complements other approaches that focus on value creation, and works as a powerful add-on to activate plans, make progress toward goals, navigate progress, and celebrate success.
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The master design canvas of Human Impact Thinking and Design is the Human Impact Framework (HIF), a sense-making and action-taking tool that helps you tell the whole story of impact, including the half that usually gets left out.
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The HIF can be used in whole or in parts by purpose-driven organizations and individuals to:
Amplify Your Impact
Couple internal wellbeing with external impact for truly transformative and sustainable results
Build Better Strategy
Put humans at the center of your strategy and brand in a radically new way
Supercharge Innovation
Leverage the experience of impact to co-create better solutions
Tell your Story of Impact
Add new levels of meaning that factor you into the story as a benevolent force that tips fortune in the favor of others
Build a Culture of Connection
Invite people to co-create an environment for intentional and natural thriving
Activate your Values
Make your core values an active part of your impact
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
Not-for-Profit Organizations
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.
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.
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Impact over Purpose
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Your higher purpose has a soul. It is unique to you, comes from a good place, and is linked to your sense of meaning, direction and fulfillment.
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You're likely to have several purposes or versions of purpose over your lifetime, if you're lucky enough to find them.
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But having a purpose is not enough. If you have a purpose you need to have an impact.
Impact is the key that unlocks your purpose.
Having a purpose but not an impact leaves people feeling miserable and frustrated.
And not knowing your purpose leads to existential angst.
We think it's time to focus on impact (the difference you actually make) over purpose (the difference you want to make). Ideally we need both working together, but the only path to that is to through conscious impact.
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You're having an impact all the time, but are you having the impact you want?
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Conscious impact bridges purpose and legacy. It unlocks a greater sense of wellbeing, connection, meaning, and significance.
And if you're still searching for purpose, you might just find it in the impact you make.
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