Our work

Change is daunting at the best of times. Here are a few client case studies, from diverse sectors, to bring to life the t.METHOD process and the results that can be achieved from working with Melissa.

both regeneratively and commercially.

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Capability Building

Miraka. Callaghan Innovation. Academy EX.

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Strategic Transforming

Ecostore. World Vision. Auckland Council. The Icehouse. Safeway.

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Start Up Disrupting

Ārepa. Circularity. Leaderful. Lof.

  • "Melissa transformed us into marketing-led company with aplomb. She transformed our product ranges, our brand, our design, our communications… that will serve us for years to come. Her winning awards is a testament to this transformation. She is leaving behind a strong platform for future growth."

    Malcolm Rands, Founder ecostore

  • “Melissa’s expertise in design-led thinking is outstanding. She is challenging, rigorous and super strategic, with an incisive understanding of an organization's un-realized potential. Her process was revelatory. The way I thought the organization delivered value wasn't correct. Both the challenge and the opportunity, were bigger. Her process brought this into sharp focus. Melissa operates at the top of her craft, with the upmost integrity.”

    Dr Sandy Callister, Board member World Vision

  • “Melissa’s energy, empathy and experience have led me to believe she is a real world walking Wonder Woman! Within a short-time frame Melissa was able to help me craft the right business plan and strong brand positioning to attract investment and move forward into early stage market entry. Without her help I would have struggled to get to where I am now!”

    Angus Brown, Founder Ārepa

  • “It is hard to express in words just how incredible my experience working with Melissa was. Her structured design-thinking program has given me a solid base to completely redesign my business. It has truly exceeded all of my expectations.”

    Sophie Poelman, Founder Studio Alida

  • “Melissa is a super power. She serves up gold. Her process is a real gift - she has this amazing way of getting to the core essence of the challenge and building up the process to help you make quality decisions. Her insights and frameworks are world leading. It has led to a change in our agenda forward, and the results speak for themselves. She’s engaging, empathetic, purpose driven and challenging; and she cares deeply.”

    Andy Hamilton, CEO The Icehouse

  • "Melissa helped me discover potential I hadn’t even thought of. She has the unique ability to help connect the dots using her Regen Method which is a useful and easy framework to follow. This was hugely valuable for my business strategy and I’m so appreciative to her insights and energy.”

    Jayne Chater, Founder JC, Altris and Professionelle

  • "Melissa design thinking skills have been instrumental in helping us unlock our innovation potential. She has an uncanny ability to cut through big problems to identify what’s broken, what works and what can fly. She can see value potential and knows how to unlock it – both in the business and in people. I’d highly recommend her to any business leader wanting to reset and scale up their business".

    Richard Wyeth, CEO Miraka

  • "Melissa is the real deal. Bundled in an effervescent parcel of infectious optimism, Melissa has a rare ability to cut through rhetoric and business myths to pinpoint the true strategic, commercial, problems. Melissa settles for nothing less than excellence. She has an enviable know-how on all aspects of modern business practice to add to her capabilities as a stunning marketer."

    Helen Carter, CEO Cancer Society

  • "Melissa helped us define our place in the world. Where we want to play, the unmet market need and importantly- our superpowers. A powerful, robust and inspirational process. Melissa is a superpower of insight. Highly recommended!"

    Dr Sue Watson, Founder Leaderful

  • "Melissa is quite simply a world class design practitioner. I was consistently impressed with her ability to balance strategic and commercial demands within rapidly evolving environments."

    Abraham Gibson, Board member World Vision and tech entrepreneur

  • "Melissa is a calm, holistic thinker. She can combine what are typically thought of as 'fluffy' concepts with quite a 'hard' edge of frameworks and outputs. It’s magic combo. She provides our Masters students with a way to see, and move through the complexity of a system. She gives order to the disorder and gets people unstuck. This is the key to momentum - forward motion. It's awesome!"

    Sarah Hindle, GM Tech Futures Lab