Innovation Lab
Extraordinary Times Create The Urgency Of Now
These times are unprecedented, and the world is an exceedingly complex place.
Financially, from the high cost of living to inflation worries to the threat of layoffs, we now live with pervasive economic worries that have
become part of the backdrop of our daily lives.
The career headlines, from quiet cutting to loud quitting to bare minimum Mondays, have made it clear that work is broken.
We are working harder than ever but falling further behind. Instead, we are more insecure and worried than ever.
The last several years have brought about more change than we have seen in our lifetime, and we are struggling to keep pace in all areas
of our lives.
The rapid pace of change has taken a toll on our psyche. The epidemics of stress, burnout, and loneliness, as well as the rising anxiety
and other mental health struggles, speak to the constant mental and emotional challenges we face.
A Broken Path to Success at All Stages
The old blueprint we were all taught from a young age was that if you work hard in school, get good grades, and get a degree, you will get a good job that will provide you with safety and security throughout your career. First, you were supposed to find success, then happiness, then the fulfillment you hoped for based on your hard work, and then you were supposed to retire with enough to live on for the rest of your life. Now, most people are saying they did what they were told to do according to this old blueprint, but instead of living their American dream, they are never arriving at success.
Reimagining the Blueprint to Success
Blueprint Global has reimagined the old 20th-century blueprint and has created a new 21st-century blueprint that presents the
five critical reframes that we all must know to shift our paradigm from obsolete thinking, rules, and assumptions based on a
previous era, to what we now must know to be successful today and in the future based on our context of constant change
and disruption.
Redefine
We must redefine success from a narrow focus on career ambition to a broader focus on our health, wealth, and happiness.
Lead
The path to success is no longer climbing the career ladder. Now, we must lead our lives differently by playing the game on our court, not someone else’s ladder. We must take full charge of our value, make multiple plays to create our own security, and center our goals.
Manage
Financial success and lifetime security no longer go hand in hand. We must all now manage our well-being, quality, and standard of living for lifelong sustainability.
Innovate
We must go from thinking of ourselves as consumers who just spend and acquire as a marker of success to thinking of ourselves as a business that grows through constant innovation.
Prepare
We are using 20th-century education in a 21st-century world. We now must prepare differently to lead and manage ourselves so we can play the game differently, and innovate throughout our life.
WHAT WE PRODUCE
Blueprint Global’s 21st-century blueprint and 5 critical reframes are the foundation for several paradigm-shifting solutions for
individuals and key national impact initiatives that catalyze societal innovation.
Our signature 2030 multiyear National Initiatives address the critical national gaps between the 20th-century paradigms and what we
must do to move us into 21st-century thinking in order to succeed.
The Blueprint Difference
Life is contextual, so the research and solutions based on our lives must also be contextual. Life is happening in the most unexpected
ways, so we need a science that studies this disruption also. That is why our human-centered lab begins with the context of change and
disruption that we live in as the basis for our work. We apply scientific rigor to this context, and then we frame and solve problems within
the context in which people are experiencing the problems. Our work is at the intersection of human-centered design, multidisciplinary
science, and this new context of the future of life preparation, navigation, and sustainable success