Navigating Change and Delivering Results

Setting up your organization for success

The Active Implementation Research Network® is a learning organization whose mission is to advance implementation practice, research, and policy. We support the development of implementation science as both a field and a profession.

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We work alongside…
  • Organizations and their leaders to equip their teams to provide consistently high-quality services to produce measurable and meaningful benefits for those they serve.
  • Systems that provide education, health, social work, and other human services to strengthen their capacity through evidence-based practices.
  • Our partners using research related to behavior change, organizational improvement, implementation science, and complex systems change.
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Organization & System Leaders
Explore Implementation Support
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Implementation Specialists & Teams
Expand Your Knowledge
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Evaluators & Researchers
Design Implementation Research and Measurement

Guided by the Active Implementation Frameworks™ we can help you…

EXPLORE THE FRAMEWORKS
  • Close The Science-to-Service Gap

    Translate the best available evidence into sustainable practice.

  • Build Capacity

    Strengthen leadership support, change facilitation, and coaching systems to establish and sustain high-quality service delivery.

  • Continuously Improve

    Build systems to transform data into actionable insights to improve work in real time.

EXPLORE THE FRAMEWORKS
Active Implementation Research Network
I want to acknowledge the impact of the Active Implementation on my work and growth as a public health professional in the occupied Palestinian territory (West Bank and Gaza Strip). Working with AIRN taught me that effective implementation is not just technical; it is relational, adaptive, and deeply human.

– Professor Niveen ME Abu-Rmeileh, PhD, President of the Global Implementation Society (Qatar University | Birezit University)

Thinking purposefully about organizational infrastructure was new terrain for us, and frankly, we weren't always sure where to turn. AIRN was there for us — as thought partners and mentors. Through that partnership, we began to see the systemic gaps and barriers that had been quietly limiting our impact.

– Lisa A. Hill, President and CEO, Invest In Kids

The AIRN platform with theory and methods provide a highly valuable approach and tool box for me and my company as implementation consultants – because Fixsen's and AIRN is based on 40 years of ground-breaking research and publications and converted into operational working packages.

– Nicolaj Ejler, Realize ApS, Partner and Director (Denmark)

Interested in deepening your knowledge of implementation science and practice?

Are you ready to be at the forefront of effective change initiatives? Our Active Implementation Specialist® Course begins your journey toward becoming a change leader by leveraging evidence-based strategies from implementation science and practice.

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Actively implementing with teams,
organizations, and systems since 2002.

We are honored to work with and serve our clients from education, healthcare, criminal justice, and beyond. For decades, our collaborative approach has combined the best evidence from your field with the best evidence for producing long-lasting change – helping you produce socially significant outcomes.

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Featured Resources
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Science & Implementation

The purpose of this article is to explore implementation science as a science. The idea of science, and the use of the scientific method to test predictions and hypotheses to advance science, are discussed in the practical contexts faced by implementation scientists.

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Implementation Practice & Science

This book is 378 pages of the latest information on implementation research and practice to promote a more definitive and developmental implementation science.

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Staff Selection Process

Staff selection continues to be an overlooked part of implementation and scaling. The processes for recruiting staff (new or existing) to adopt innovations and implement best practices, and for interviewing candidates on key skills (e.g., judgement, coachability), are detailed, with examples.

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