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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Values

    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.

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Complexity Advisory

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

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Complexity Analytics

  • Products include Early Warning Bulletins and Monitoring Briefs

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Complexity Kids

  • Activities, insights, reviews, and stories

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Complexity Press

  • Publications include books, briefs, bulletins, guides, papers, and reports

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Complexity Research

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

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Complexity Tech

  • Products include online planning tools and synthesizing databases.