Business can be the change.
Financial stress. Community strain. Environmental costs. Internality helps private business leaders redesign how value is created.
The challenge leaders are facing today.
The prevailing assumption was that maximizing shareholder value would naturally care for the broader economy. Today, that assumption is breaking.
Workforce instability. Wage pressure. Benefits structures that trap people. Growing mistrust. These are not isolated problems.
They are predictable consequences of a system designed for a different era. Addressing them requires more than good intentions. It requires new ways of designing how business creates value.
Why privately held businesses?
Privately held companies occupy a unique position. They are closer to their employees and communities. They operate with longer time horizons. They are not constrained by quarterly earnings pressure.
Internality is built specifically for this group of leaders who have both the incentive and the freedom to test new approaches.
What Internality is
A nonprofit initiative focused on practical experimentation. Not just theory, but real-world application.
Pivot Labs
Small, structured groups of business leaders working on specific economic challenges they are already confronting. Focused on designing and testing changes inside real companies.
InterNality OS
An open learning and simulation platform that captures insights from experiments and allows leaders and researchers to explore potential outcomes at scale.
Peer Community
A space for private business leaders to learn from one another without sales pressure, posturing, or predetermined agendas. Participation happens at different levels.
Internality does not prescribe solutions. It provides a process for discovering what works through rigorous testing and shared evidence.
How the work unfolds
A rigorous sequence designed to move from individual challenges to systemic solutions.
Problem Identification
Efforts begin with concrete problems identified by leaders: workforce stability, affordability, resilience.
Mapping & Design
Participants work with partners to map systems and design experiments for their organizations.
Experimentation
Results are documented. Patterns emerge. Some approaches prove effective; others do not.
Policy & Adoption
Practice comes first. Learning follows. Policy is shaped by what has been shown to work.
Leadership means engaging early, while there is still room to experiment.
“Some leaders will observe. Others will respond when forced. A smaller number will choose to shape the direction of change.”
Who Internality is for
Designed for owners and CEOs of privately held companies who are:
Grappling with workforce and community challenges existing tools don't solve
Skeptical of slogans and interested in evidence-based approaches
Willing to test new approaches and transparently share learnings
Thinking about the long-term role their companies play in the economy
An open invitation
We are convening a growing group of private business leaders to participate in the next phase of Internality. Engage as an observer, a collaborator, or a leader.
Internality is a non-profit initiative. No fees, no pitches.