Timmermann Social

Despite positive developments, discoveries, and achievements around the world, humanity still faces fundamental problems. The United Nations identifies major global challenges with wide-ranging consequences, including climate change, nuclear energy, poverty, gender equality, and human rights. The WHO focuses on health-related issues such as health during crises, broader access to medicines, and preventing and containing pandemics. Other sources, including The Borgen Project and GVI, prioritize preventing conflict and war, securing food supplies, distributing resources fairly, education, and unemployment.

Many people and organizations worldwide work intensively to address these problems. We also want to contribute to a more sustainable and fairer world. We therefore use our change expertise to help these organizations pursue their goals more effectively and efficiently.

Timmermann Social goes beyond symbolic action. We want to make a difference.

The Timmermann Social mission: "We use change know-how to help solve the world’s major problems”

Supporting organizations through change does not automatically help solve global problems and crises. We want our work to contribute to that goal. Through Timmermann Social, we use established methods and extensive experience in change to support organizations addressing major global challenges.

For example, we support problem-solving among people with very different backgrounds and worldviews. Imagine an environmental activist, a warlord, a business leader, and a politician from different countries working on a problem where their interests diverge. Such problems often make little progress because they are complex. Improving them requires these different people to work together successfully.

We have extensive experience supporting leaders and leadership teams with both substantive and interpersonal problem-solving. People from all backgrounds share needs, often including individuality and belonging, freedom and security, closeness and distance. Their priorities differ, but the needs are present. We create space to respect and clarify them, strengthen people’s ability to deal with realities that differ from their wishes, and build a basis for achieving common goals despite challenges. Shared positive experiences can support progress. We encourage participants to take responsibility for making their own process succeed.

Michael Timmermann says that, given the choice, he would dedicate most of his time to Timmermann Social. It is the service line he feels most passionate about.