Join us in mapping out the journey towards more humane, more effective startups.
- Be a changemaker designing more humane organisations.
- Contribute to discovering a better future, we know is possible.
- Join us to synthesis and ideate profound concepts in organisational development.
- We are looking for co-creators, reviewers, partners, and community members.
What is Teal?
Teal organisations are values-driven with a systems-thinking, holistic understanding of their purpose and impact. Hierarchical management is replaced with self-organized, self-managed teams which adapt flexibly to changing circumstances to achieve the organization’s purpose whilst adhering to its values. A Teal organisation derives it purpose from fulfilling a valuable function for the community, not from blind serving the narrow needs of just one stakeholder group. Teal aspires to describe the next stage in the evolution of human consciousness.
Core Questions
The working group will develop a map for creating a next-generation startup:
- What does leadership look like?
- How to build and align the team?
- How to build community?
- How to be more resilient, scalable and sustainable?
- When and how to define the organisation’s values and purpose, stakeholder model, governance, legal form, decision making, recognition and compensation?
- How to support the growth, learning and development of its people?
- Who are the relevant partners and communities?
- What are the processes/tools?
- What are the resourcing and funding options?
Why Teal?
Current business models and frameworks are a product of capital-driven, hierarchical organisations and are failing to create the disruptive innovation needed to address many of the challenges we face today. They are mechanistic, treating employees as replaceable cogs, in return many employees are neither happy nor fully engaged.
The goals of companies should be to contribute to progress towards creating a better future for all. We believe a different organisation is needed to build effective product-services which serve society, as everywhere we look people crave more humane experiences (HX). Simply put a company which can create these will be a more successful business.
Teal organisations are soulful workplaces where our full-range of talents is nurtured and our deepest aspirations are honoured. Teal brings a holistic understanding of human and team psychology making it possible to consciously create community and foster empathic communication resulting in better collaboration, a more effective organisation and increased happiness. Fitting in with the basic human drive for fairness, Teal is the more humane way to work together.
Why Teal for Startups?
Every year 250,000 startups are created in the U.K, 2.3 million in the European Union, imagine the impact if we could help even a few percent of them be Teal? The EU five year startup survival rate is only 45%, how can Teal principles reduce this high failure rate?
Teal organisations have incredible potential however the ideas are very new. What is needed is a clear map, structured and easy to follow advice on how to create and develop these organisations.
How and what will we produce? A Conversation, A Whitepaper, A Community
We believe that an eco-centric model rather than ego-centric would be the most appropriate way co-create something new that will help startups in their Teal journey. We are forming a small and diverse group to map-out the journey of a Teal startup. We hope to define the development stages and the journey of a Teal start-up plotting the core questions which need to be asked and the decisions which need to be made along the way.
The planned timeline is a two month working group, with online discussion and real-world workshops in London, United Kingdom. We would expect a commitment of 48 hours is needed from each co-creator during this period, and a minimum for a few hours from reviewers. Together the working group will develop a whitepaper and seed a Teal startup community and ecosystem.
The white paper will be published into the public domain with the co-creation team and reviewers recognised as contributors.
Who are we?
The Co-Creators
Susan Basterfield
As a catalyst, cultivator, convenor and curator, Susan helps individuals and organisations experiment with new ways of working and being, to actualise the workplace of the future. These include Teal Transformation, Holacracy, Open Space Technology, Working out Loud, and Liberating Structures.
Her broader focus is on building digital communities of purpose and practice. Susan in co-convenor of Teal NZ, with nearly 200 members. She serves as a Catalyst for Enspiral, and distributed organizations, including Teal for Startups, Ooooby and LHD as a digital facilitator.
Find Susan on Linkedin, Twitter, Medium and OpentoGrow
Malek Joseph Jaber is passionate about driving change to make the world a fairer place through organisational design leveraging Teal and Theory U. He is a digital native, born in London, and lived & worked across the globe, with 20+ years international business experience. He is currently mentoring and advising startups. He believes in a world in which everyone has the opportunity to reach their full potential and that everyone is genius at something, and senses the need for a more purposeful and evolutionary environment for building startups with an exceptional HX.
Find Malek on: Linkedin, Twitter, Angel, Medium, Impact Hub or StartupBootCamp
Julia Marczi
Facilitator of the Values & Culture Stream
Julia is a corporate renegade and an aspiring Social Entrepreneur with a background in sociology and several years international experience in sales and interface roles.
Her vision is a more humane and conscious enterprise that unfolds human potential, serves society, and solves problems instead of creating them.
She believes that the key to tackle our challenges is to change our minds and the way of doing business. Driven by this purpose, she works currently on different projects, fostering the emergence of the next-generation business.
Find Julia on LinkedIn, Xing
Anthony Ogley
Facilitator of the Wealth Stream
Brings a dynamic energy and drive to engage the natural leadership of trust in business and life. He has an ability to see the gifts in others and call that out to greater levels of acceptance and action.
He has a varied background in somatic bodywork, youth development and festival production.In his coaching and leadership training practice he works with inspiring and remarkable people to embody their greatest potential and implement projects that contribute to the evolution of humanity.
He is facilitating the Wealth Stream of the Teal Startup project
Find Anthony on Linkedin
Steph Thommen is passionate about building open, engaging, more humane organisations. With a background in support and client relationships, she supports startups and SMEs in building organisational practices that boost innovation, transparency and happiness in the workplace. She has, for the past 10 years, worked across cultures in diverse distributed global environments both in the corporate and the start-up world, using her extensive experience to building customer focused organisations, transforming businesses and promoting disruptive technologies in the workplace,
Contact: LinkedIn, Twitter, Skype: steph.wiki
Victor Vorski is passionate about building a better future through creating more holistic, humane, joyful organisations. He dreams of creating systems which support wide-scale open collaboration, peer learning and release human creativity. For the last 10 years Victor has worked in flexible global virtual teams, designing software and advising start-up ventures. He has extensive experience in software design and is passionate about usability and user experience. He is currently planning EarthSkyLab a Teal village centered around creativity, collaboration and learning.
Profile: Facebook, part-up
Contact: FB messenger, skype: vvorski
Request meeting: calendly/vvorski
Join us in this journey!
Sign up below to join the Teal for Startups community and participate in the discussion. If you are passionate about this topic consider joining the working group as a Core Team to co-create the whitepaper or become a Contributor to help with reviews, authoring sections, etc. We would like to Partner with organisations that would like to collaborate in growing the Teal for Startup Ecosystem, and connect with any Startups who are on the Teal journey as well as anyone interested in starting a Teal startup.
Supplemental Reading
For more details about Teal organisations, please refer to Teal Organisation Wiki, or watch this RSA video on reinventing organisations, and read Enlivening Edge – “news from next-stage organisations”. We use “Teal” as a shorthand but include Theory U, Integral Practice, Spiral Dynamics, Spiritual Intelligence and other development theories describing next-generation organisations.
Our Partners:- Enlivening Edge and Teal Practice Group
Our Reviewers:- Andy Paice, Evgeniya Emets, George Pór, Patrick Andrews.
