Dr Tamsin Woolley-Barker is an evolutionary biologist known for her original research on baboon social organization. She is also a pioneering author in the field of Biomimicry, innovation inspired by nature.

Her book TEEMING: How Nature’s Oldest Teams Adapt and Thrive is a key reference on nature’s organizations. Her new book, The TEEMING Transformation, distills these patterns into powerful frameworks and principles and helps leaders apply them, so we can grow conditions conducive to life the way human beings always have.

Tamsin is the Founder of TEEMLab, LLC, offering evolutionary education to life-minded leaders., and the Director and Founder of the Borrego Institute for Living Design, 501(c)(3), an innovative field school for “living design” – what is proven to work.

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 / TEEMLab.

Teeming

Tamsin’s book, TEEMING: How Nature’s Oldest 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 actually called it “the most important business book of the 21st century.”

Biocultural Leadership

Tamsin serves as a founding advisor for the School for Biocultural Leadership at Geoversity, a 30-year 501(c)3 in Panama, founded by Oxfam America founder Nathan Gray. Her work there was featured in The Endangered Generation? a full-length feature documentary narrated by Academy Award winner Laura Dern, highlighting scientists and First Nations leaders working together to restore living systems life depends on. 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 check out the trailer here.

Living Design

Tamsin is based at the Borrego Institute for Living Design (The BILD), a unique field school aimed at regenerating what is proven to work where we live.