Tamsin Woolley-Barker, PhD
Founding Director, Borrego Institute for Living Design 501(c)(3)
Founding Advisor, Geoversity’s School of Biocultural Leadership in Panama 501(c)(3)
Founder, TEEM Innovation Group, LLC
Dr. Tamsin Woolley-Barker is an evolutionary primatologist known for her original research on baboon social evolution, and a leading author in the field of Biomimicry, innovation inspired by nature.
Biomimicry
Tamsin was an early contributor to the San Diego Zoo’s Bioinspiration Initiatives and the author of The Biomimicry Manual on Inhabitat, later published as an anthology (soon to be re-released in a new edition). She was the first Biological Strategy Editor for the Biomimicry Institute’s website AskNature, an inaugural contributor and editor for their blog AskingNature, and a frequent and enthusiastic contributor to their many exciting initiatives in education, entrepreneurship, and innovation. She earned her Biomiimicry Professional certification from industry pioneer Biomimicry 3.8, and was among the first cohort receiving the Masters in Biomimicry from Arizona State University. She has provided Biomimicry innovation to a leading-edge global clientele as an independent Biologist at the Design Table for Biomimicry 3.8 and through her company TEEM Innovation Group LLC for the last 15 years.
Teeming
Tamsin’s book, TEEMING: How Nature’s Teams Adapt and Thrive is regarded as the foundational work on Organizational Biomimicry, generating principles from evolutionary biology, ecology, and bioanthropology to help unleash hidden potential in our organizations, communities, and lives. YPO/Entrepreneur Organization founder Verne Harnish called it “the most important business book of the 21st century.”
Biocultural Leadership
She is the Founding Advisor of Geoversity’s School for Biocultural Leadership in Panama, creating nature-based curricula for both scholars and professionals. Geoversity Foundation is a 30 year 501(c)(3) conservation education initiative led by Oxfam America Founder, Nathan Gray, long allied with Jane Goodall’s international Roots and Shoots Program.
Endangered Generation?
Her work was recently featured in The Endangered Generation, a full-length feature documentary highlighting collaborations between scientists and First Nations leaders to combat climate change, and its effects, narrated by Academy Award winner Laura Dern. The film follows Tamsin and Guna activist Agar Tejada as they travel through the autonomous Panamanian Guna Yala territory, speaking with the chiefs about climate change. You can watch it on AppleTV or check out the trailer here.
The BILD
She is the Founding Director of the Borrego Institute for Living Design, 501(c)(3), an innovative wilderness field school in the unceded Kumeyaay lands of the Southern California desert dedicated to life’s proven strategies: Indigenous biocultural practices and the adaptations of native species.
Your TEEMING Transformation
Tamsin’s new book is a hands-on workbook for life-minded leaders determined to do impossible things, using a unique set of evolutionary frameworks designed to help people break the chokehold of Mechanistic Design. It is free.
