Dr. Tamsin Woolley-Barker
Evolutionary Biologist, Biomimicry Pro, and Bestselling Author
Founder TEEM Innovation Group dba TEEMLab
Founder and Director Biocultural Institute for Living Design 501c3
Borrego Springs, California
Founding Dean School for Biocultural Leadership, Geoversity, 501c3
Mamoni Valley Preserve in Panama
Dr Tamsin is an evolutionary biologist known for her original research on baboon social evolution, and a leading author in the field of Biomimicry, innovation inspired by nature.
She has provided leading-edge Biomimicry innovation to a global and Fortune 100 clientele since 2012, and is the Founder of TEEM Innovation Group LLC, a company providing developmental tools and experiential education to life-minded leaders.
Her book TEEMING is regarded as the defining work on Organizational Biomimicry. Verne Harnish, founder of MIT’s Birth of Giants, YPO and EO, and the author of Scale Up called it “the most important business book of the 21st century.
Tamsin 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. It is dedicated to Biocultural renewal and leadership, and to the regeneration of life’s proven strategies, including those of Indigenous biocultures and native species.
Tamsin 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.
She 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.
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