Money is the lifeblood of our exchange system, allowing goods and services to flow between people. Yet, our current monetary system reduces value to mere numbers
STEP BY STEP BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT
We help visionary BUSINESSES
to do more good
SOME OF our clients & partners
OUR VISION & MISSION
step by step
change the world for the better
OUR VISION IS A NEW SOCIAL ECONOMY THAT SUPPORTS PEOPLE TO FLOURISH
WE WANT TO SEE MORE RESOURCES AND CAPITAL INVESTED IN THE SOCIAL ECONOMY
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 evaluation, business business and workplace wellbeing.
Goals of Kai-zen
Social economy
Building THE SOCIAL ECONOMY through partnerships, impact management and a place-based approach.
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WELL-BEING
Healthy, happy, calm, productive workplaces.
Invest in staff well-being to achieve your business goals.
Find out more about how to improve staff productivity and reduce work absence through wellbeing activities that boost energy & reduce stress.
BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT
Step by step change for the better. Skills and knowledge to optimise business models.
Improve your business the kai-zen way.
Online business improvement blitz workshops to give you the tools, resources and support to develop optimum business models that are efficient that maximise social impact and that generate good financial returns.
AWARENESS RAISING
Wisdom, insights & knowledge for people, communities, & businesses.
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our news, insights & resources
Working out with Kaizen
Save Costs, Improve your Bottom Line with Kaizen Business Methods What is Kaizen?Kaizen is a business improvement concept that means continuousimprovement, step by step change for the better. It involves putting the customer first, where value is defined from the perspective of the customer.Through the Kaizenapproach efficiency is achieved as organisations only build the right
Prove and Improve your Social Impact
Prove and Improve Your Social Impact The new ‘Be Responsive’ Social Value standard has been launched by Social Value International. This is big news in the world of social impact and we are excited about it. The standard takes the Social Value UK standards a stage further by linking evaluation with planning using a rigorous,
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
Investor Support
Kai-zen and the Key Fund have several clients in common, supported by Kai-zen in the earlier phases of business development, or in preparing for new growth. Kai-zen works with organisations in a very holistic way; it works to their strengths and brings in learning or connections for skills gaps, all the while building client confidence and knowledge. It’s always a pleasure when our paths cross – Natasha Jolob of Kai-zen shares her expertise with diligence and efficiency as well as operating across shared values.
Well-Being Meditation Sessions
I have been lucky enough to attend a few of Natasha’s sessions – it's hard to put into words exactly how much good they have done for me. I have felt stronger and more focussed, deeply relaxed and refreshed and somehow cared for. The sessions are easy to access, and although I would like longer, the mini re-treats have been easier to fit into a busy work day. I can’t recommend highly enough.
Project Delivery Partner, Systems Resilience Consortium Project, Wolverhampton
I have admired your support for this project and that you were not afraid to immerse yourself in
the reality of it all.
Business Planning For Investment
Without our successful social investment application with the Key Fund, we would not have been able to move forward with our planned projects for 2020. The investment provided the security to continue with our growth plan and it is incredible the difference this has made, we have in a short period of time, created lasting relationships with major organisations and have had the ability to promote our social enterprise and the work we do in the community with this investment. We are now seeing the positive impacts of this work and the future of our enterprise now seems much more certain than before our social investment was secured.
Business Planning For Investment
Recommended by a social investor, I commissioned Natasha Jolob to help me to write a business plan and secure funding so that I could make my vision a reality.
Her ability, passion, industry knowledge, national contacts and professional insight resulted in us, within a few short months, securing an £113,000 investment. Natasha helped us to have a clear understanding of how to implement our vision through a robust and clear business plan combined with a financial framework that enables us to go from strength to strength today!
If you are reading this and wondering if to secure her services to make your vision a reality stop reading this recommendation right now! Pick up the phone and make it happen. Natasha is a dynamic committed person who you can trust and gets the job done, an absolute pleasure to work with and if you are lucky, a loyal
supporter and friend.
Well-being Meditation Sessions
“I have found the sessions really beneficial in helping me to refocus and clear my mind’
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Infrastructure support
During the last ten years we have supported 10 local infrastructure support organisations (CVS) from across the UK to increase their capacity in social enterprise, social value and social investment.
East/ West Midlands Enterprise & Investment
From 2019-20 we secured funding for & worked with five local infrastructure support organisations & one co-op agency to:
Deliver 14 Social Enterprise & Investment Workshops
Increase the skills and knowledge in enterprise & investment of more than 100 local charities, social enterprises and community groups.
Workplace Wellbeing
We supported 75 charity and social enterprise workers with their well-being during the pandemic through delivering free online wellbeing meditations. This project was supported by the Social Enterprise Support Fund (Key Fund)