Harness Complexity → Achieve Sustainability

Complexity Group is a nonprofit in California launched in 2025 to accelerate sustainability through research and analysis that decipher the complexity of human systems and educational products and services that develop complexity thinking.

Problem

Unsustainable production and consumption practices have created significant global biodiversity, climate, and social crises.

The complexity of human systems makes reversing these crises and transitioning onto sustainable paths extremely challenging.

Mission

Complexity Group accelerates sustainability by providing individuals, organizations, communities, and government agencies with strategic insight and planning capacity to harness complexity and transform society.

We do this through research and analysis that decipher the complexity of human systems and educational products and services that develop complexity thinking.

Need

Humanity needs to implement transformative solutions that sustainably reverse these crises by realigning human practices with planetary boundaries.

Developing, gaining widespread support, and implementing such solutions requires deciphering and then harnessing the complexity of human systems.

Vision

We envision a future where planet Earth is flourishing with increasing biodiversity and thriving human systems that embrace, nourish, and benefit from Earth’s complexity.

Vision

We value community, harness complexity, and commit to sustainability.

Programs

We implement our mission through an ecosystem of synergistic programs, each supporting and enabling the others while contributing uniquely to addressing the problem stated above.

Complexity Advisory

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  • Services include impact evaluation, grant writing, prioritization, problem definition, strategic planning, and theory of change development.

Complexity Education

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  • Activities, insights, reviews, and stories

Complexity Research

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  • Products include Baseline Reports, Case Studies, Evaluation Reports, Needs Assessment Reports, Policy Briefs, Policy Papers, and Research Reports