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Human beings are heartwired
Human decision-making is influenced by how we’re heartwired: the mind circuits and connections that tie together emotions, identity, values, beliefs and lived experiences. Heartwired strategies help to accelerate change on tough social issues.
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Using Heartwired Research to Rebrand Your Organization
For more than 30 years, Community Housing Partnership provided people experiencing homelessness a home combined with support services. Research among their target audiences pointed to the need to align their name and brand story with their brand.
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Build Trust. Answer Questions. Inspire Confidence.
A Heartwired messaging guide for people working to advance equitable COVID-19 vaccine uptake
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A Labor of Love
A new messaging guide for those working to support family, friends and neighbors who care for young children
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Superpowers for social change
Wonder is a virtual firm with a network of independent experts in messaging, storytelling, psychology and public-opinion research. For each assignment, we carefully combine the right elements of expertise into the right project team. The result is a tailored team with more agility and less overhead than a traditional agency.
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Heartwired to Love the Ocean
Working with dozens of conservation organizations, Wonder and our frequent partner and collaborator, Goodwin Simon Strategic Research, embarked on a broad, three-year audience research project to better understand how to strengthen public support for ocean protection.
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Everyone needs health care. And everyone should have access to the care they need, regardless of their income, the color of their skin, or the language they speak. Enter the California Health Care Foundation’s Innovation Fund.
Using Heartwired Research to Rebrand Your Organization
For more than 30 years, Community Housing Partnership provided people experiencing homelessness a home combined with support services. Research among their target audiences pointed to the need to align their name and brand story with their brand.
In California, 80% of children under age 2 and 40% of children under age 5 are cared for by friends, grandparents, other family members, and neighbors. These adults play a valuable role in the lives of young children.
Communicating about ocean conservation can be extremely challenging given the vastness of the ocean and because the problems and solutions facing the ocean often involve complicated scientific processes and policy prescriptions.
For more than 50 years, Amnesty International's communications approach named world leaders violating human rights and shamed that person until they changed their behavior. But what approach would persuade today’s leaders who enjoy being named and have no shame?
For 20 years, advocates worked unsuccessfully to provide a legal option for terminally ill people in California with six months or less to live to request life-ending medication. How could they succeed in a state as racially and ethnically diverse as California?
Millions of students eligible for financial aid do not fill out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) – leaving billions of dollars on the table and their potential unfulfilled. The Kresge Foundation asked, could stories help encourage more students to fill out the FAFSA?
Wonder’s network of strategists represent an evolution in social-change communications. We are independent experts in messaging, storytelling, psychology and public-opinion research.
For more than 30 years, Community Housing Partnership provided people experiencing homelessness a home combined with support services. Research among...