VISION & AIMS


WE EXIST TO HELP YOUR BUSINESS TO IMPROVE AND CHANGE FOR THE BETTER:

TO DO MORE GOOD FOR PEOPLE & PLANET

OUR ORIGIN STORY

Kai-zen was set up as a not for profit by Natasha Jolob in 2011. She has 20 years experience in the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS), working from the bottom up, as a volunteer through to a director level, across multiple sectors and at all levels (local, national and international).

Natasha says, "The driving force behind my work is my personal life challenges having experienced struggles, strife and hardship in my own life. I set up Kai-zen to help charities and social enterprises to develop and grow so that they can help people that are experiencing life challenges, because I know how hard it is when you just want to give up."



THE PROBLEM & OPPORTUNITY

We have entered into one of the most challenging centuries of human history. We stand at the crossroads of either destruction or regeneration of the planet. Whilst medicine, science, and technology advances, ecology is on the verge of collapse, poverty and inequality is increasing, conflict & violence are increasing & disease & depression is rife. And this is all happening at a fast pace. 

The solution is not to just plant more trees or reduce carbon emissions (although important). The challenge is an economic system that is based on accumulating materials. We define ourselves by what we possess and what we do for a living and we believe that the world is a place of scarcity and this causes fear. This system undermines our wellbeing.


Science has power and has devised social and technical strategies to eliminate other knowledge systems developed outside the Westernised cultural framework. But there is another Way. Externally we can build a new social economy of high value social enterprises and make well-being for all the number one global goal. Internally we can work on changing our state of consciousness, working on the inner-outer, mind-nature divide and rearranging our relationship with nature. We can work on changing the embedded psychological structures that give us our present mainstream worldview. 


Here at kai-zen we think global and act local, working in collaboration with partners to develop and grow the social economy. And through our inner-outer work programme with others to improve and change on a personal level which will then support change for the better in our local communities, our country and the world.

THINK GLOBAL AND ACT LOCAL


OUR Vision

WE SEEK TO SHIFT AWARENESS INTO THE QUANTUM FIELD OF ABUNDANCE & INFINITE POSSIBILITIES

OUR VISION IS A NEW SOCIAL ECONOMY THAT SUPPORTS PEOPLE TO FLOURISH
& THAT RESTORES THE PLANET TO ITS NATURAL HARMONIOUS STATE

WE WANT TO SEE MORE RESOURCES AND CAPITAL INVESTED IN THE SOCIAL ECONOMY - BUSINESSES THAT DELIVER THE BEST POSSIBLE AND HIGHEST VALUE SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL OUTCOMES

WE STRIVE FOR WELLBEING TO BE AT THE HEART OF BUSINESS

We are a social enterprise based in the heart of the UK.

We seek to make a stepped change in how business is done through delivering targeted CEO support, business & investment advice, awareness raising, workplace wellbeing and personal growth services

We are experts in the charity sector, civil society development and social enterprise

               

OUR AIMs

To achieve our core purpose we have three main aims:


  1. 1
    To make a stepped change in how business across all sectors is done so that markets, commerce, technology and finance improve outcomes for people and the planet.
  2. 2
    To undertake social research & produce publications to educate, raise awareness & inform policy-making
  3. 3
    To support and improve the wellbeing of individuals, communities & organisations 


Future Directions

We want to collaborate with partners in the social economy to make the world a better place for all.

We want to:

  • Support those that are struggling by building a strong supportive and caring social and community support system. 
  • Nurture, protect and harness beautiful mother earth, working with nature to heal our health and mental health. 
  • Create abundance for all and to live in harmony peacefully with diverse cultures. 
  • Respect and learn from diverse people and to support a global governance structure that ensures equality and voice for all groups.
  • Honour and celebrate diversity and culture. To address deep embedded structural racism by working with the global south and ‘black minoritised groups’ to reinstate ‘and raise higher’ what has been lost or forgotten. We will seek to learn from, embrace & bring to the forefront beliefs, traditions & indigenous wisdom for humanity to learn from & embrace. 
  • Support the health and well-being of people and the planet.
  • Working with our partners we will seek out, support and invest in organisations that achieve high social value. 

And finally we will vehemently seek to challenge and change the power structures so that the voices of people are heard, so that excluded people are empowered. We will fight to ensure that decisions made at all levels are made from the heart and are made in the name of the wellbeing of humanity. 


What we Have Done so far

  • Through our wellbeing programme we support clients to improve and change on a personal level which will then support change in our local communities, our country and the world.
  • We have worked with and supported hundreds of charities, social enterprises and voluntary groups to start up, develop and grow. 
  • We have partnered with local social impact infrastructure support organisations on some incredible projects to increase local capacity and build the local social economy.
  • We have worked on some innovative local partnership projects between social investors, charities and social enterprises and local government to develop cost saving prevention models for government.
  • We have set up a new holistic health and wellbeing service that seeks to help our clients with workplace wellbeing.


Our values

Our values aren't just inspiring words that live on our website.  We practise them every day.  We take the principles of Kaizen and instil the philosophy into how we work with you:

We believe that organisations need to Continuously Develop, Change and adapt to new external environments. Through working with us organisations take small, incremental steps over time that result in sustainable change.

We believe that your business should think about the customer first, and define value from the perspective of the final customer (service-users, beneficiaries).

Kaizen is a gentler, employee friendly way to bring about incremental changes over time. Our activities therefore involve employees at all levels, with an emphasis on employees working on the front-line.

We believe in efficiency – building the right quantity, of the right service, at the right time – and providing only what is needed – by the customer

And this all brings

me to you.

As an entrepreneur, I know there’s nothing more frustrating than having a vision or solution you want to bring into the world… but not knowing how to communicate it in a way that others “get” and take action on.


KAI-ZEN CHANGE FOR GOOD 

WE EXIST TO HELP YOUR BUSINESS TO CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVE AND CHANGE FOR THE BETTER AND THEREFORE MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE.

CLICK HERE TO DISCOVER HOW WE CAN HELP YOU

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