Our TEAM

Amber Amoo-Gottfried

Amber is an experienced coordinator of learning spaces for social change. With expertise in climate consultancy, racial justice, and community-led action— Amber is working to catalyse life-centred systems change through Koreo's Learning Networks portfolio.

Amy Kimmins

Amy, our Development Manager, leads marketing campaigns for business growth. With 10+ years in FMCG and student recruitment marketing, she excels in data-driven strategies and values diverse, trust-based client relationships.

Ashanya Griffiths

Ashanya manages the Routes Into and Through Portfolio, ensuring positive experiences for trainees and hosts. She designs workshops, offers 1:1 support, and fosters inclusive learning spaces for social change careers.

Ben Dewhirst

Ben, a Project Manager in the Routes Into & Through portfolio, has a diverse third-sector background, including roles in social change, cybersecurity, finance, and fundraising. He's passionate about transforming the charity sector.

Craig Pemblington

Craig is Koreo's Head of Business Development, responsible for the strategic development and delivery of our business growth strategy. He’s previously worked on initiatives like Charityworks, Change100, and Civic Futures.

Emily Lim

Emily is the Director of Public Acts at the National Theatre and a current Koreo Foundation board member.

Flinn Andreae

Flinn is Koreo's Development Coordinator, responsible for administrating and managing Koreo's communication channels as well as wider parts of our business growth activity.

Jahnvi Singh

Jahnvi is Koreo’s Portfolio Manager for Organisational Change, creating learning strategies that foster resilience and cultural agency. With 10+ years of global experience, she’s worked with The RSA, Cultural Agents at Harvard, and Flow India.

Jane Garnham

Jane specialises in individual and organisational learning. She is a qualified coach and action learning facilitator and board member for the Koreo Foundation.

Jordan Rolfe

Jordan combines social impact expertise with business acumen to drive strategic projects. An MBA graduate and qualified Core Strengths facilitator, he enhances team dynamics and client problem-solving through coaching and action learning.

Jordana Ramalho

Jordana’s practice focuses on building institutional capacities to work with marginalised groups and to embed an intersectional approach to their work. She is a board member of the Koreo Foundation.

Josiane Smith

Josiane is Koreo's Director of Learning Networks. She is building just and inclusive futures through Civic Futures and London Engagement Collaborative. With 12+ years in social innovation and systems change, she has worked globally in philanthropy and development.

Kathy Brown

Kathy is Team Coordinator at Koreo, working on finance and people processes within the team and our partners across many of our programmes. She enjoys working towards making positive social change.

Rachel Whale

Rachel, a leadership and organisational development specialist with 30 years' experience, founded Koreo after 20 years in the mental health sector. She leads Koreo’s consultancy projects, social ventures and major development programs.

Robin Pierro

Robin has worked across philanthropy and civil society for over 15 years. Before joining Koreo she held leadership roles with the Fund for Global Human Rights, Mannifera, Reichstein Foundation and Journalists for Human Rights. She’s passionate about shifting power and community-led activism.

Sara Cruz

Sara is a Project Coordinator working on our Routes Into & Through portfolio. She is pursuing a Master’s in International Development, having worked in organisations supporting youth leadership, inclusive education, and human rights.

Sinmi Labisi

Sinmi is an experienced Project Coordinator, delivering various people development programmes within the Routes Into & Through portfolio. She has an academic background in sociology, international development, and British Sign Language.

Stephanie Sherman

Stephanie’s work reprograms outmoded systems as collaborative platforms, leveraging surplus, storytelling, and speculation. She is a current board member of the Koreo Foundation.

OUR Story

Founded in 2004 by Rachel Whale - we started life as Vanilla Ventures. The company's roots can be found in Rachel's experiences as a young working class woman who experienced poverty and homelessness but also the joy of growth that came from the discovery of community, education and work as forces for good. Two decades later, we have grown into the company we are today, shaped further by the people, relationships and collaborations we have made along the way.

Towards radical learning

Our practice

The success of our work relies on our ability to create power spaces for people, organisations and networks to learn together. Our practice is a continual process of learning what makes those spaces most meaningful and how best to create and facilitate them. We share and publish regular thoughts, reflections and ideas related to our work.

How we work

We hope to be a live case study for 21st Century ways of working - moving beyond the limitations of the 19th and 20th Century industrial and colonial pasts that too often still inform and lead organisational design and processes today. As part of this, we seek to respond to the complexity of our times by reimagining the structures, ways and spaces in which we work - experimenting and learning together in the open in the hope we can take this further and also encourage others to experiment in similar ways.

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