About Human Synergistics International

Thank you for your interest in Human Synergistics International’s Subarctic Survival Situation™. You can learn about our many other products by visiting www.humansynergistics.com.

What We Do

Since 1970, HSI has been working with organizations, their members and consultants to strengthen performance and turn challenges into opportunities. We are committed to providing you with research-based materials that:

Engage and motivate people
Inspire sustained change
Measurably improve organizational performance

A Broad Client Base

When you choose HSI, you’re in good company. We’re proud to provide high quality assessment and development materials to human resource specialists, organizational development practitioners, executive coaches, counselors, teachers, and trainers. More than 10,000 public and private sector clients, as well as 3,000 consultants, have used our products.

Out of the Desert

The Desert Survival Situation™ is perhaps HSI's best known product, introduced in 1970. In fact, Desert has been cited as the most widely used training and development tool in the world. Our capabilities, however extend far beyond the desert and group process simulations.

HSI offers measurement instruments to help organizations reach their full potential by strengthening their individual contributors, leaders, work teams, and cultures.

HSI’s most widely used diagnostics include:

Life Styles Inventory™ for individual development.
Leadership/Impact™ and Acumen Leadership WorkStyles™ for leadership development
Group Styles Inventory™ for team development
Organizational Culture Inventory™ for organizational change.

Our assessments and simulations have helped over 20 million individuals to enhance their effectiveness and achieve greater levels of success.