About us

We are a not-for-profit social enterprise on a mission to help create radical change towards more sustainable, equitable and resilient societies.

We provide our partners and clients with specialist services, deliver tailored coaching and training courses, and re-invest into ambitious new projects and programmes.

Our People

We are specialists in the ‘how’ of transformational change.

Tim Taylor

Director

Tim specialises in guiding communities through transformative change and innovation. As director of Korimako, Tim focuses on empowering communities to create ambitious collective goals, strategic missions and collaborations to achieve them.

Tim brings to the clients and communities that we work with his skills and experience across:

Mission-led change
Community development processes
Partnership building and transnational collaboration
Funding and investment models
Business and organisational model shaping
Portfolio, programme and project development
Cities, energy systems, circular economy
Facilitation
Strategic planning
Programme and project management
Strategic communication

Tim has a MSc in Sustainability Science from Lund University in Sweden and a Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Hons) from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He has worked on varied projects and programmes in the Western Balkans, New Zealand, UK, Asia, North America and across Europe.

Nina Taylor

Founder/Senior Advisor

Nina has extensive experience developing, managing and delivering sustainability projects in collaboration with public, private and non-governmental organisations. She specialises in bringing a breadth of ideas and possibilities into innovation work, testing new horizons and possible futures.

Her experience and skills cover:

Community development
Circular economy
Community development
Project management
Transnational collaboration,
Development of project funding bids, plans and business cases
Strategy Development
Facilitation
Research
Sustainability assessment, data analysis and reporting
Horizon Scanning
Programme and project management

Nina has a MSc in Sustainability Science from Lund University in Sweden and a Masters in Geography from the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. She has worked across Europe and in New Zealand.

Work with Us!

We are currently looking for new team members in these roles:

Community Action Developer

We are looking for a new team member to advise and support communities in SE Europe with exciting new community-led actions.

Operations Leader

We are looking for a new team member to lead our operational excellence.

Services

We support organisations and communities with advisory, coaching, capacity development and delivery services covering the following areas:

Mission-led Change and Innovation

Understanding and planning processes of mission-led change and innovation - a vital shift in mindset and approach.

Partnership and organisation models

Designing fit-for-purpose partnership, governance and organisational models to be the ‘backbone’ of radical change and innovation – while helping existing organisations to evolve.

Systems, assets and stakeholder mapping

Using established methodologies to understand and map current systems, assets and stakeholders.

Strategy and portfolio development

Comprehensive strategy and portfolio development using a futures-focus, ensuring that projects and programmes are integrated into a mission pathway.

Programme and project development

Robust programme and project development, deploying excellence in both detailed planning and strategic alignment.

Investment and funding

Development of transformative investment models, economic cases & financing mechanisms to deliver capital at needed speed and scale.

Feasibility assessments & business cases

Working through a robust feasibility assessment and business case development processes

Facilitation

Designing and facilitating creative, engaging and fun workshops, meetings and conference sessions – empowering everyone to contribute.

Strategic communications

Creating and telling strong stories about changes being achieved, successes, impacts, and also hard lessons.

Research

Horizon scanning, assembling background research and developing case studies to inform change and innovation work.

Programme and project management

Ensuring delivery of quality programmes and projects on time, scope and budget – using people-centric approaches.

Capacity Development

We run professional training sessions that connect together the services we offer and areas we work in. These trainings can be tailored to specific audience, context, needs and budget.

We specialise in delivering engaging training courses on:

mission-led community change and innovation
neighbourhood regeneration
community energy
just transitions and new economics
community placemaking
regenerative bioeconomies.

We believe that using mission-led approaches is a powerful way to help unlock radical change for our communities. A mission-led approach forces us to focus on doing what must be done to respond to the challenges facing us, rather than limiting ourselves to presumptions about what we think can be done. This is an important shift in mindset and approach, but it is hard. So we offer an intensive 2-day Masterclass in Mission-led Community Change. Check our news page for more info on upcoming editions.

Korimako is registered in Slovenia as a non-profit institute: Korimako – zavod za svetovanje in stateško načrtovanje, Goriški Vrh (Matična Številka 8794847000); and also in New Zealand as a limited liability company operating as a social enterprise: Korimako Ltd (Company #5421764). Korimako operated as a Community Interest Company in the UK 2016-18). These entities are under aligned governance, but they are not legally connected.

Zavod Korimako is certified as equivalent to a Certified Public Charity in the USA.