our services

We specialize in helping exec teams and entrepreneurs through the transformative process of re/engineering business, regeneratively. We do this using our bio.t METHOD, based on Nature’s design thinking playbook.

not human centered but life centered. high performance. high efficiency. high growth potential.

bio.t Disrupt MBA

Taking you on the strategic transformative journey of business re/design, regeneratively.

We offer in-house, and now direct to public group programs, that take you through the process of re/engineering your strategy and business model, and re/designing your innovations, based on our bio.t™ METHOD. Using Nature’s design thinking playbook. Playing in the biotech intersection of biomimicry, ecology, ethics and living systems design. So you can disrupt your world, regeneratively.

for start-up entrepreneurs (or leaders with a disruptive entrepreneurial mindset).

bio.t BQ Capability nano courses

Upskilling you, or your team, in Nature’s design thinking playbook.

We offer in-house, and now direct to public group courses, that help build your, or your team’s disruptive regenerative capability. These are the thinking and practice principles that underpin our bio.t™ METHOD. Together they help build your BQ™ - your biological fitness. They give you the design principles you can apply directly to re/engineering your strategy or innovations.

for Business leaders, Design Thinkers and Sustainability practitioners.

bio.t BQ™ Disrupt Diagnostics

Helping you assess how well you’re placed to ride the biotech disruptive curve. Your market potential. Your business potential.

Melissa will run you through our BQ™ Diagnostic process, so you can get a pulse on your disruptive potential - and your disruptive risk. The BQ report includes recommendations for bio-disruptive regenerative action alongside cutting edge biotech, biomimicry case studies.

Market ecosystem. Strategy and innovations. Leadership capabilities.

for c-suite exec teams.

Bespoke Programs + Consultancy

Helping you one-on-one, tailored to meet your specific needs.

Melissa still undertakes bespoke programs and consultancy services for select clients. It doesn’t matter where you’re currently at, only where you want to be. Melissa will work with you and your team to help you on your own unique disruptive regenerative journey.

for disruptive regenerative business or social enterprise exec leads.

why take action now?

As global markets price in the materiality of the living world, there has never been a bigger disruptive opportunity for business reinvention. The quicker you decide to take action, the further ahead you’ll get.

(the massive risk only sits on the balance sheets and P&Ls of 20th century business models).

  • 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, if we’re tracking our footprint, if we’re 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).

say hello

melissa@tensegrity.bio