Purpose-driven organizations rarely fail for lack of values. They fail because their systems cannot deliver what they stand for. We call it the Values-to-Action Gap. The Integrated Resilience Framework (IRF) is how we close it, and the IRF Hub is the door: the free IRF Compass, the IRF Practitioner Membership, digital tools and eBooks, and this fall, the Founding IRF Guide Cohort.
None of these is a character flaw. Each is what a design makes possible. If one sounds familiar, the IRF gives you a way to see it and change it.
The organization has promised more than it has planned, organized, resourced, trained, and evaluated. Someone absorbs the difference: staff overwork, partners quietly fill in, the people with the least authority carry the equity work. Sincerity does not create capacity.
A grant report, a payroll run, a community relationship that lives in one head. It works until that person is out, and then the whole organization learns how fragile the process was.
People are praised for enduring while the conditions that exhaust them stay the same. Every disruption, dysfunction, and inequity makes a withdrawal from the Resilience Reserve of your staff and the communities you serve.
Every department handles disruption its own way. When pressure arrives, teams scatter, duplicate effort, and blame each other for a problem the structure created.
The Integrated Resilience Framework reads an organization across five Foundational Dimensions and three lenses. It was developed by Dr. Atyia Martin from two decades of work in city government, public health emergencies, and with nonprofits, coalitions, and companies that meant every word of their mission.
Why the organization exists, who it serves, what change it seeks, and whether the strategy still fits the real context.
Who the organization depends on and how they are treated: trust, voice, role clarity, repair, and accountability to those who pay with money or power and those who pay with impact.
How the work actually happens, and where the handoffs break.
Is it fair, and how would we know? Justice conditions whether resilience is shared or extractive.
Can we actually deliver what we promised? Capability is not commitment, activity, or a training certificate; it is assured through Plan, Organize, Resource, Train, Evaluate.
The IRF Compass Snapshot: ten prompts, about five minutes, anonymous, no login. It shows where each of the five dimensions lands. Then the IRF Compass Standard: 45 anchored ratings, saved to your own dashboard, free with an account.
irfcompass.com →The IRF Practitioner Membership: a monthly live workshop with Dr. Martin, the Resilience Reimagined eBook, the IRF toolkit as it ships, and a members' space to talk through your Compass results with people doing the same work.
See membership →The Founding IRF Guide Cohort: up to ten organizations take the Standard together and work through it with Dr. Martin in two guided debrief sessions, a written profile summary, and a one-to-one read-out. Founding price $1,250 per organization (public price $2,500). Enrollment closes October 9; the cohort starts the week of October 12.
irfguide.com →IRF Guide Workshops and the IRF Navigator retainer for a small number of organizations each year.
irfguide.com →Membership is for the person who has to make resilience real on Monday morning: executive directors, program and operations leaders, public servants, organizers, coalition staff, and the consultants and OD practitioners who work alongside them. It is per person, so colleagues from one organization are each welcome.
($2,500 in 2027). Enrollment closes October 9; the cohort starts the week of October 12.
Join the WaitlistIf your first month is not useful, write to us within 30 days and we will refund it. Organization paying? Choose annual and download the invoice at checkout.
Up to ten organizations take the IRF Compass Standard together and work through it with Dr. Martin in two guided debrief sessions, a written profile summary, and a one-to-one read-out. Founding price $1,250 per organization (public price $2,500). Enrollment closes October 9; the cohort starts the week of October 12.
Reserve a seat for your organization. We confirm fit and send the onboarding packet.
Your team completes the 45 anchored ratings on irfcompass.com. We schedule the first debrief.
Two 90-minute sessions with Dr. Martin and the cohort. You leave with a written profile summary.
A private session with Dr. Martin to walk through your profile and the next decision.
Snapshot (free, anonymous, five minutes). Standard (free with an account; 45 ratings; your own dashboard). Benchmark (multi-rater, paid, priority access for cohort members when it opens).
irfcompass.com →Resilience Reimagined free and 20% off the IRF eBook collection included with membership.
irftools.com →Worksheets, templates, and implementation guides built on the framework, released as modules from $97. Members receive each module as it ships.
irftools.com →Monthly live workshops, $67 per session for non-members, included with membership.
Learn more →I built this framework over two decades, in city government, in public health emergencies, and alongside nonprofits, coalitions, and companies that meant every word of their mission and still watched their values get lost between the strategic plan and the Tuesday staff meeting. Nearly every idea in it started as something a client, a colleague, or a community member said in a room with me. The Hub exists so that you do not have to hire me to use it. Take the free Snapshot. If it matches what you feel, or if it does not, that is worth a conversation, and I would love to have it with you inside. As always, sending lots of love, hope, and intentional action. — Atyia
Dr. Atyia Martin is the founder of All Aces, Inc., creator of the Integrated Resilience Framework, former Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Boston, and founder of Next Leadership Development and the Black Resilience Network.
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Start with the Snapshot, then the Standard. Read your results as a profile, not a ladder.
Bring your results and a real question. Leave with one thing to change.
The Founding IRF Guide Cohort, Guide Workshops, or a conversation about Navigator. Members always hear first and pay less.
| Free | IRF Practitioner ($49/mo · $490/yr) |
Founding IRF Guide Cohort ($1,250 founding · $2,500 public) |
Guide Workshops & Navigator | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IRF Compass Snapshot and Standard | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Monthly live workshop with Dr. Martin | — | ✓ | ✓ (six months included) | ✓ |
| Resilience Reimagined eBook and toolkit as it ships | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Members' space for results discussion | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Guided debriefs, written profile summary, 1:1 read-out | — | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ongoing design and implementation support | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Best for | Seeing the gap | Learning and belonging | Turning the assessment into decisions | Sustaining and transforming |
Anyone who has to make resilience real in an organization: leaders, program and operations staff, public servants, organizers, and the consultants and practitioners who work with them. You do not need a title.
Per person. Colleagues from the same organization are each welcome; team options come in 2027.
Yes. Choose annual at checkout and download the invoice, or write to us and we will send one.
The monthly live workshop (first one September 24), recordings, the Resilience Reimagined eBook, the members' space, and the toolkit modules as they ship. We only list what you can use this month. New digital products and the Benchmark assessment come to members first.
Yes: additional toolkit modules through the fall, Benchmark access, and in 2027 a certification track for practitioners who want to bring the IRF to their clients. Planned, not promised; we will announce each when it is real.
No. The Snapshot and Standard are free to everyone at irfcompass.com. Membership is where you learn to read and act on the results with others.
Anytime, in one click. If your first month is not useful, write to us within 30 days and we will refund it.
Yes. Three months of membership and the eBook are a gift; claim them at allacesinc.com/alumni. If you are not sure whether you count as an alumnus, claim anyway; we would rather be generous than exact.
If the price is a barrier — you are a student, or you are paying yourself at a very small organization — write to us. We will work it out.
The Compass is the assessment. The Hub is everything around it: membership, products, cohorts, and the community.
Yes, and many practitioners will. The certification track planned for 2027 is built for that; in the meantime, membership gives you the framework, the toolkit, and the room.
You have read this far because you know your organization needs more than good intentions. The IRF gives you a way to see the gap and a community to close it with. Start free, or join as a Practitioner today.
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