one-to-one, in-house services

Are you needing tailored strategic transformation support?

  • You’re a business leader or c-suite exec tasked with regenerative business transformation? You’re strategy, innovation and / or business model focused?

    You’re asking yourself:

    Where do I start, what steps do I take? When? What should I do? What shouldn't I do?

    How do I upskill myself so I can provide clear guidance to my team / consultancy teams?

    How do I manage Board / Exec pressure as we journey into the unknown?

    • Navigation guidance in a disruptive, regenerative, biotech world?

    • A clear roadmap + blueprint guide so you don’t waste time or money?

    • Cutting edge case studies of disruptive biotech transformation?

    • Design making and practice tools based on Nature’s powerhouse design thinking?

    • Guidance and support on what can sometimes be a lonely journey? (Melissa's been there and get's it)

It doesn’t matter where you’re currently at, Melissa can help you and your team on your own unique disruptive regenerative journey.

You have three choices.

Bespoke Consultancy

You can go complete bespoke.

This is for disruptive regenerative projects, where you want to bring Nature to the design thinking table, get intensive inhouse, or need external advisory support.

Say hello melissa@tensegrity.bio.

Group Program

You can join our bio.t Disrupt MBA program..

It’s very cost effective, and you get the benefits from connecting and networking with others going on a similar transformation journey. You don’t have to be an entrepreneur - you just need an entrepreneurial mindset.

Tailored Program

You can tailor a bio.t METHOD program to suit you.

You get one-on-one help, with a mix of personal coaching, team training, advisory support, exec/Board strategy facilitation, or hands-on consultancy services. And you work at a pace that suits you. See below for more.

TAILORED PROGRAMS

OPTION 1: Strategy only

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This is Melissa’s most in-demand work for clients. We focus on DISCOVERY of your market ecosystem, lifecycle value chain, and customers. Then we DISTIL the threads into your strategic direction and purpose.

The benefits are:

- cutting edge strategy thinking rooted in the context of the living world.

- opens you to disruptive regenerative biotech opportunities.

- upskills you in Nature’s powerhouse strategies for sensing opportunities

As undertaken with clients like Ecostore, World Vision, Auckland Council, The Icehouse, start ups like Ārepa, Dr Feelgood, and Circularity, and offered within the Academy EX Masters Disruptive Tech program, and guest lectured within the Auckland University MBA program.

More on the bio.t METHOD. More on Melissa. Tailored pricing to suit.

OPTION 2: Strategy + Innovation

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This is for you if you want support to translate strategy into innovation. We identify key design challenges and opportunities from your strategy and begin the DESIGN phase of designing your value propositions (products, services, platforms).

The additional benefits are:

- cutting edge biomimicry case studies as design exemplars in the Ideation phase

- upskills you in Nature’s powerhouse strategies for seizing opportunities

As undertaken with clients like Ecostore, World Vision, Auckland Council, The Icehouse, start ups like Ārepa, Dr Feelgood, and Circularity and offered in groups within the Academy EX Masters Innovation program.

More on the bio.t METHOD. More on Melissa. Tailored pricing to suit.

OPTION 3: Strategy, Innovation + Transformation

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This is for you if you want support in the final stages of DEFINING your operating model, monetization model and marketing model.

The additional benefits are:

- all parts of your organization and business model are cohesive and aligned

- upskills you in Nature’s powerhouse strategies for ongoing efficiencies and performance effectiveness

As undertaken with clients like Ecostore, World Vision, The Icehouse, and start ups like Ārepa, Studio Alida and Leaderful.

More on the bio.t METHOD. More on Melissa. Tailored pricing to suit.

why do I need to take action now?

Global markets are rapidly pricing in the material costs of Nature. The disruptive impact on the balance sheets and P&Ls of 20th century business models, is onstreaming.

Regenerative business transformation doesn’t just massively reduce your risk exposure. It opens up massive disruptive revenue opportunities.

  • Most organizations are playing a Nature game driven by TNFD and SBTN governance disclosures. Considering their Nature footprint alongside their climate emissions.

    But if we’re adopting a compliance cost mindset, and only tracking our negative impacts, or buying credits, or planting offset trees, we’re kinda missing the point.

    RISK #1

    As Aldous Huxley said, facts don’t cease to exist just because they are ignored. Despite political rhetoric, global markets are still rapidly pricing in the costs of Nature. So if we haven’t connected Nature to our strategy, innovations and business model, then the disruptive impact on our balance sheets and P&Ls will be big.

    In orders of magnitude, the ‘natural capital’ bubble is 3xlarger than the CO2 bubble (Stuchtey et al 2016). Half of global business GDP, US$44 trillion, relies on Nature (WEF 2020).

    Which means the negative impacts of being slow to change will hit not just our supply and operating costs, but our brand health, access to capital and markets, and growth potential.

    RISK #2

    The bigger risk of a Nature compliance mindset is we miss seeing the opportunity.

    But there is a rapidly emerging global movement of disruptors, strategists, innovators, researchers, and design thinkers who are leaning into the tension and playing a bigger game.

  • The new, bigger Nature game is all about learning from Nature. To leverage Nature’s 3.8 billion years of evolutionary intelligence.

    Why? Because Nature’s design thinking is not just regenerative, it plays at the highest order of functionality. High performance, high efficiency, low cost, low energy, high scalability.

    This game connects your strategy, innovations and business model to the design thinking that underwrites the science of life. 

    You get to leverage the blueprints, hardcoding and working models Nature uses that have been tried, tested and proven to work, for a really long time.

    Cutting-edge businesses playing this new game are reengineering anything from products, services and platforms to business models, value chains and organizational operations.

    Many are not just disrupting the shape of global markets and global industries, they’re disrupting the rules of the global economy.

    THE MAGNITUDE OF THE POTENTIAL

    There is a 88%+ innovation gap between how biology designs and how humans design (Vincent and Mann 2011).

    World Economic Forum estimates it could create US$10 trillion in GDP growth and 395 million new jobs by 2030.

    “The 21st century will be the century of biology. The solutions to the biggest challenges we face are all deeply rooted in our understanding of life” - Craig Venter

    “Biotech is transforming humanity’s potential, unlocking a new era, and reshaping what it means to live and create” - Jennifer Doudna

    “Nature has already solved so many of the problems we’re grappling with.” - Janine Benyus

    We are only at the beginning of our disruptive evolutionary journey.

  • We guide you on the journey to re/engineer your business. No matter where you are right now.

    We work with you in three ways: Diagnostics. Capability building. Transformational journeying.

    THE VALUE KEY

    The key to unlock the biotech door of opportunity boils down to how you think about value. Because value is at the core of design thinking.

    1. How to create, deliver, leverage and convert value

    2. How to sense, seize, scale and transform value potential

    4 VALUE AXES

    We’ve learnt from our research that Nature works across not one, but four interdependent value axes  i. Value flow (systems). ii. Value regeneration (ecology). iii. Equitable value exchanges (ethics), and iv. value potentiality (biomimicry).

    So when it comes to re/designing your strategy, innovations or business model, how you think about value has to shift. To be a little more biological.

    You don’t have to be a biologist, or even a design thinker, you just need to be open to new ways of seeing value, and value potential. 

    This builds your disruptive dynamic capabilities, and helps you avoid playing this year’s version of “faster, better, cheaper” that drives you toward competitive parity.

    WHY WE WORK LIKE THIS

    Because the rewards are big.  When you use Nature's design thinking playbook, you open up the potential for multiples. 1. Multiple new revenue streams, 2. Multiple new market creating, 3.. Demand-led B2B and B2C growth, 4. Scalable growth, 5.. De-risking, 6.  Lower costs, 7. Capital flows, 8. More profit, 9.  And you play at the highest order of sustainability.

    The beauty of Nature's playbook is that leverage does a 180° flip. Leverage becomes abundant. Not as a Pollyanna world view, but as a deep design principle. Which makes things way more fun.

    (It’s why we call it the bright side).