Introduction

Our governance is a fusion of Western Systems, with global leading network governance and relational design informed by Robin Dunbar, and Indigenous systems working around embassy and relations, and kinship mapping. Most organisations will show you the logos for the verification governance tick, of the people funding the work, which allows a top down approach to ensure there is control over the operations from ‘trusted sources’. The challenge with systems change is many of the funding investors will not benefit in their bottom line from moving to nature centred economies. In this instance, we are shaping the path to tomorrow, so what you’ll see here is how our staff, our Boards of Directors, and then a series of network of network super leaders have committed their time, knowledge, networks and skills to ensuring IMAGI-NATION and AIME deliver, and they do that by rolling up their sleeves and doing the work.

The following sections break down the 5-150 kinship meets Dunbar, through to the 150 people involved as partners in embassy, and then their locations inside IMAGI-NATION in action, and on earth in action.

There is also the standard translation of our US and Global legal entities, both of which have tax deductible not-for-profit status and can be claimed with tax benefits in the US and Australia. We also list our Board Directors, audit and legal partners with the day-to-day operations inside the system, as well as a bio of our CEO & Founder, Jack Manning Bancroft.


5 / 15 / 35 / 50 / 150

People as Custodians

We power IMAGI-NATION, a nation state to get us back to nature.

Seasons and Process

The 150 positions following the Dunbar circles are mapped as follows:

5 people on the executive team gather in clusters daily online and in different physical locations to organise our day-to-day operations.

Jack Manning Bancroft
CEO & Founder
Leia Alex
COO
Sam Refshauge
Strategic Advisor
Kristy Greaves
Head of HR
Narendra Prasad
CFO

15 people on the leadership team gather in ceremony at the end of each month to spend time in our head office - underwater - and remind ourselves of our custodial natures. This is when we make story together, and when we plan our operations.

Steph Beck
IMAGI-NATION {University} Vice Chancellor
Parul Punjabi Jagdish
Head of Impact
Helen Caldwell
Head of Partnering
Shyaka Farid Lwanyaaga
Director of Communications
Suzie Winkelman
Co-CEO

35 staff gather twice annually in Big Story, to make hoodies for the Hoodie Economy and professor puppets.

Alejandro Velazquez
Magic Maker
Isaac Onato
Co-CEO & Composer
Yolande Brown
Producer & Story Lead
Vanessa Ellis
Master Puppeteer
Josh Buoy
Writer & Composer

The AIME Boards of Directors accept the positions for the next 35-50 and the legal and risk responsibility for the network.

AIME Global Board

AIME Global is our Australian-based Board that governs our global operations. AIME Global has Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) and charity status and is governed by the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations (ORIC).

AIME Global gathers collectively 6 times per year, following a circular rhythm organised by time outlooks and seasons.

Each meeting is represented by a circular wedge, grounded in a natural season (currently following the Wurundjeri calendar) and, where applicable, a totemic animal related to the meeting discussion area. Moving out from the core, each meeting also has a time and thematic focus. In the yellow outer rim we showcase the governance requirements for each meeting. Meeting dates are set to align with our Sea the Weed experiences on the last Friday of each month, in which our team and Board spend time returning to our custodial relations with nature.

Paul Kearney
CEO | Kearney Group
Dr Bronwyn Bancroft
Proud Bundjalung Woman and Artist; Founding Member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-operative (est. 1987)
Photo credit: Sharon Hickey
Kate Koch
CFO | IDP Education
Jack Manning Bancroft
CEO & Founder | AIME
Wayne Quilliam
Photographer | Videographer | Curator
Tim Moriarty
Founder | Dark Lightning
Tishiko King
Climate & Torres Strait Islander Advocate
Jasmin Sheppard
Dance Practice Lead at NAISDA Independent artist Choreographer Director and dancer Bangarra Dance Theatre 2007-2018

AIME Inc Board (United States)

AIME is registered as a tax deductible 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organisation in the United States. The AIME Inc Board governs our activities across the U.S. and further supports our global operations.

Chris Bartlett
Emeritus Professor of Business Administration | Harvard Business School
Vicki Zubovic
Chief External Relations Officer | Khan Academy
Paul Kearney
CEO | Kearney Group
Jack Manning Bancroft
CEO & Founder | AIME

AIME Africa Board

AIME is currently establishing a legal entity in Kenya to assist in the governance for our team on the continent of Africa. We are working on our registration to be live by the end of 2025.

Kabir Dhanji
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Emeritus Professor of Business Administration | Harvard Business School
Vicki Zubovic
Chief External Relations Officer | Khan Academy
Paul Kearney
CEO | Kearney Group
Jack Manning Bancroft
CEO & Founder | AIME

IMAGI-NATION Studios

AIME and Vizion have joined together to establish IMAGI-NATION Studios, a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) that is responsible for producing our film & TV projects, including IMAGINE Film and The Professors: A Fight for Hope.

The 20 active IMAGI-NATION {University} Professors accept the custodian positions from 45-65 and the knowledge and tool creation responsibility for the network.

The remaining positions from 65 - 150 will be filled by knowledge holders and network of network leaders who accept responsibility for being the bridge to bring networks into IMAGI-NATION, for embassy work back into our nation states on earth and for the distribution of tools from IMAGI-NATION back to our nation states.

The 150 collectively come together as our own nucleus - custodians of a new nation and together we shape the support network we need to improve the work required by us and our fellow citizens across planet earth. We share that we are responsible for IMAGI-NATION.



    AIME's Organisational Intentional Death Date

    300
    DAYS
    34
    HOURS
    4
    MINUTES
    454
    SECONDS

    At AIME and IMAGI-NATION, we lead our governance with death not as a morbid fixation, but as the most honest design principle available to us. Death is the only universal truth - everything dies. Yet our organisations pretend they'll live forever, leading to institutionalisation, corruption, and decay.

    Death creates urgency.
    Death prevents systemic rot.
    Death forces legacy thinking.

    When you know you're dying, you focus on what you leave behind. Our books, tools, hoodies, networks, and knowledge systems are designed to outlive us - to become the stardust that fertilises the next generation of change-makers.

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