bio.t Disrupt Labs
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want to level up for a disruptive biotech world?
come join Melissa.
TUE 29TH + WED 30TH APRIL 2025
an introduction to the foundations of disruption, biomimicry and disruptive bio-based tech.
Not just Nature positive. But Nature played.
SYSTEMS DISRUPTION
TUESDAY 29TH APRIL 12-3PM NZT
A 3 hour introduction and design sprint on systems disruption live on Zoom. You learn the levers of systems disruption based on living systems thinking.
This is the foundational lab Melissa teaches within the Masters of Disruptive Tech entrepreneurs, Masters of Change and Resilience programs at Academy EX, and guest lectures within University of Auckland MBA program. It is the first step Melissa works through with clients and is the first step in her new bio.t METHOD which she is now taking public.
for BUSINESS STRATEGY
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Living system thinking is different than typical systems thinking. We still use the same techniques, but go one step forward. We use the critical components Nature has used over evolution, to not just create functioning systems, but to regenerative and self renew after disruption.
The benefit of living systems thinking is that living systems are functional. So they help you more quickly identify the leverage points to best disrupt your market, industry or organization, regeneratively.
Living systems thinking gives you way better CONTEXT to inform where to play strategically. And it works as a DIAGNOSTIC tool for assessing your disruptive risk and potential.
Living system thinking changes your lens on how you look at your market or social ecosystem. You look underneath patterns of change, to how the patterns have been created and locked in place.
This helps fast track your discovery and design process. And transform from linear systems that trap value, to circular, cyclic systems that keep not just materials, but nutrients, energy, information and power in flow.
The principles and frameworks Melissa uses are built on her deep analysis of 100 years of disruptive living-system research. They reflect deep patterns of how life functions, in living systems. They are not virtue signaling principles. They are strategic levers of future value creation (which is the foundation of design thinking). They give you thinking and practice tools so you can play a bigger strategic disruptive game.
DIAGNOSE. DISCOVER. DESIGN. DECIDE. DEPLOY differently
BIO-TECH DISRUPTION
WEDNESDAY 30TH APRIL 12-3PM NZT
A 3 hour introduction and design sprint on biomimicry and bio-based tech innovations. You learn the core principles of Nature’s design thinking playbook as we work through cutting-edge global case studies.
This is based on Melissa’s deep research into Nature’s living systems, and her MSc in Biomimicry. These principles apply to all aspects of business innovation - products, services, platforms, systems - for higher performance, efficiency, and scalability - and are woven into Melissa’s new bio.t METHOD.
for BUSINESS INNOVATION
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Nature’s design thinking is different than human designed thinking. Nature has evolved to survive and thrive in disruptive conditions over the last 3.8B years, using some deep design principles that play at the highest order of performance, efficiency, scalability and growth potential.
There is a global surge of bio-based tech innovations happening right now that are emulating Nature’s intelligence - from biomaterials, bioprocessing, biorefining, biomimetics and bio-inspiration to biomimicry.
You don’t have to be in biotech, or be a scientist to learn how to apply the principles to your innovations, across any facet of your business.
WHO FOR
Exec strategy, transformation or innovation leads. Board agitators. Disruptive entrepreneurs. Systems thinkers. Design thinkers. Management consultants. Bio-based, bio-tech investors. Futurists.
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This is NOT about Nature-positive reporting or restorative projects. This IS about the how you can disrupt your market, your industry and your world, by applying Nature's design thinking.
DELIVERING TO YOU
Deep principles of Nature’s design thinking playbook applied directly to business disruption
Cutting-edge biotech and biomimicry global case studies, across sectors
Template models and thinking frameworks for mapping your system, and identifying leverage points
ENABLING YOU TO
o Better identify you / your industry’s bio-disruptive potential
o Better review your innovation pipeline and risk register with a disruptive bio-lens
o Ask better strategic questions. Make better innovation decisions
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NO Tired 20th century thinking. NO tired technocrat “best practice” examples from lazy talking heads. NO pale-male-stale consultancy speak. NO death-by-power point. NO long docs to read. NO ad-man soundbites and big stats in size 70 font with nature stock images. NO fluff. NO waffle. NO BS.
You're welcome.
“While AI dominates headlines, biology is converging with exponential technologies to unlock unprecedented value. It will revolutionize every market in the next 5-10 years” - Singularity University 2025
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We map your market ecosystem, exploring patterns, and unpacking how the current system has been patterned in (and who the pattern makers are).
We assess for tension - ethical and environmental in-equitabilities, across time and place
We vector the interconnections and identify disruptive regenerative growth potential.
THE BENEFITS:
It reveals un-met market needs and untapped value potential.
It reveals levers of system disruption (market and/or industry).
It helps you make better strategic decisions on where to play.
It helps you build stronger sense-making abilities
THE SYNTHESIZED THINKING SKILLS:
Systems thinking, systems mapping and levers of systems disruption.
Living ecological systems thinking and disruptive adaptive cycles.
Futures thinking with causal layered analysis.
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We go through the key adaptive, disruptive design thinking principles of Nature that relate to business strategy and innovation.
We bring this to life with a series of cross-sector bio-based, biotech case studies - biomimicry, bio-processing, biomaterials - for greater performance, efficiency, and scalability.
We design sprint the implications for your own business, exploring for disruptive innovation potential.
THE BENEFITS:
You upskill in the design-thinking principles that hold the biggest disruptive leverage - that you can apply to your business
You upskill in the latest design thinking and innovation trends
THE SYNTHESIZED THINKING SKILLS:
Biomimicry design thinking
Living systems design thinking
want more details?
join one lab, or bundle both and save
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WHERE
Live over Zoom
WHEN
bio.t Lab #1 | SYSTEMS DISRUPTION | Tues 29th April | 12-3pm NZTbio.t Lab #2 | BIO-BASED DISRUPTION | Wed 30th April 2025 | 12-3pm NZT
INVESTMENT (NZD)
As an Impact player, Melissa has priced these labs to be as accessible as possible.Each lab is $440 general | $240 regenerative impact not-for-profits | $140 pre-revenue startups, students, or are in between jobs.
20% discount if you book both labs
She is also offering two scholarships for each bio.t Lab, covering 50% of the price, to support specifically Māori, Pacific peoples, those who identify as indigenous First Nation peoples, refugees, and recent immigrants.
10% of your purchase price will go towards Recloaking Papatūānuku, a native soil and tree regeneration project in Aotearoa, New Zealand, invested in biodiversity.
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