rə/gen labs and talks
rə/generate your business
How well you ride the waves of disruption rolling in, depends entirely on which game you’re playing. The bigger, regenerative game demands your strategy, innovation and business model uses Design Thinking 3.8, not 1.0.
No matter who you are or where you play, it’s handy to know the new game rules that 180° flip the current playbook.
If you want to re/skill to play regeneratively, maybe we can help.
Stop playing like a machine. Start playing like Nature.
Different questions.
Different models.
Different decisions.
Your rə/gen options
DISRUPTION
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Market Patterns, Systems Thinking, and Sense-Making
DESIGN
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Innovation, Design Thinking 3.8, and building your BQ
ECOLOGY
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Value / Chains, Lifecycles and 180° flips on Value
ETHICS
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Te Ao Māori Principles and Rə/Connection
PURPOSE
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Finding Your Why Principles of How. A 180° Rə/Practice.
1. DISRUPTION
Market Patterns, Systems Thinking and Sense-making
Needing to re/orientate yourself in a disrupting world? Our most popular Ecosystem lab immerses you in your market ecosystem. This gives you the core foundations of how system disruptive forces work, how market patterns play out, how ethical tensions work and how to identify blue ocean opportunities Run as a design sprint, woven with cross-cutting systems-thinking models and working examples. You learn .
Don’t get talked at by some ‘futurist’ or ‘sense-maker’ who’s exponential emergence curves are limited to binary bits not biological atoms.
Why most business play a market-orientation game, chasing “product market fit” using a broken 20th century pattern book, that completely misses the bigger patterns in play. Learn the hacks to disrupt and shape markets by playing in the real world. It’s a bigger game of value.
Why most of us are hardcoded with cultural and cognitive biases that get us playing a small, linear, win:lose game of strategic advantage. Learn how to blueprint biomimicry principles into business to sense and seize the blue ocean opportunities all around us. It’s a bigger game of value.
Rə/GENERATE Sprint Program
Rə/SKILL Lab
Rə/THINK Talk
2. DESIGN
Market ecosystems, Systems Thinking and Sense-making
Needing to re/orientate yourself to a disrupted world? Our most popular Ecosystem lab immerses you in your market ecosystem. Run as a design sprint, woven with cross-cutting systems-thinking models and working examples. You learn how system disruptive forces work, how market patterns play out, how ethical tensions work and how to identify blue ocean opportunities.
Why most business play a design-thinking 1.0 game, chasing “faster, better, cheaper” innovations disconnected from the real world, and with an agile and aimless practice. Learn how to play a design thinking 3.8 game instead. It’s a bigger game of value.
Rə/GENERATE Program
Rə/SKILL Lab
Rə/THINK Talk
2. DESIGN
3. ENVIRONMENT
Market ecosystems, Systems Thinking and Sense-making
Needing to re/orientate yourself to a disrupted world? Our most popular Ecosystem lab immerses you in your market ecosystem. Run as a design sprint, woven with cross-cutting systems-thinking models and working examples. You learn how system disruptive forces work, how market patterns play out, how ethical tensions work and how to identify blue ocean opportunities.
Avoid the net zero gamification, avoid the siloed greenhouse emission thinking, avoid the “do less harm” operational game. Shift from environmental economics to ecological economics. Harness as strategic driver of value creation.
Rə/GENERATE Program
Rə/SKILL Lab
Rə/THINK Talk
3. ECOLOGY
4. ETHICS
Market ecosystems, Systems Thinking and Sense-making
Needing to re/orientate yourself to a disrupted world? Our most popular Ecosystem lab immerses you in your market ecosystem. Run as a design sprint, woven with cross-cutting systems-thinking models and working examples. You learn how system disruptive forces work, how market patterns play out, how ethical tensions work and how to identify blue ocean opportunities.
Rə/GENERATE Program
Rə/SKILL Lab
Rə/THINK Talk
4. SOCIAL ETHICS
5. PURPOSE
Market ecosystems, Systems Thinking and Sense-making
Needing to re/orientate yourself to a disrupted world? Our most popular Ecosystem lab immerses you in your market ecosystem. Run as a design sprint, woven with cross-cutting systems-thinking models and working examples. You learn how system disruptive forces work, how market patterns play out, how ethical tensions work and how to identify blue ocean opportunities.
Rə/GENERATE Program
Rə/SKILL Lab
Rə/THINK Talk
5. PURPOSE
Created + Facilitated by a practitioner
Don’t just know what to do, but how to do it, and how to think about it. Learn the traps to avoid, the models to discard and the false constructs to overturn. Learn the questions to ask, and the mindset to hold, from someone who’s only played in the arena.
Melissa is not a management consultant, an academic or a talking head, she’s a systems-based design practitioner. Which means you don’t get told what to do, or deafened in echo chambers you get what works in the arena and you don’t drown in motivational story-telling but rather how to ask different questions but how to do it, and how to think about it. Learn the traps to avoid, the models to discard and the false constructs to overturn. Learn the questions to ask, the decisions criteria to use and the mindset to hold.
Culled + Curated
No BS. No fluff. 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. Instead, you get short sharp videos, easy visual tools, clear distillations, practitioner-built models and downloadable pdfs.
Applied learning
You not only learn what to do but you get to put it into practice immediately with sprint assignments. Learn the real questions to ask and the real decision criteria to use. Use templates and tools to make things simple and easy for you. Flip learning. Full support workbook. Video how to guide.
Don’t just know what to do, but how to do it, and how to think about it. Learn the traps to avoid, the models to discard and the false constructs to overturn. Learn the questions to ask, and the mindset to hold, from someone who’s only played in the arena.
cheap stats, confusing it for wisdom. Wisdom comes from joining the dots. Contextual interconnections are the turnkeys.
Accountability + Connection
If you join a group, you get wrap around accountability to keep you going - so you don’t disengage when things get a little tough (yup, we know).
When you join a lab, you connect with a group of like-minded people who will energize you. Aided by group discussion, you’ll gain greater perspective and feel supported to keep going - so you don’t disengage when things get a little tough (yup, we know).
And whatever program you choose, you can join live weekly sessions to connect, learn and ask questions.
We’re on this journey together. It’s hard but it’s it’s not just way more profitable, it’s way more fun.
Our training matters
From the bright side
Using real life working examples from 14 years playing on the bright side and case studies of amazing businesses around the world. not tired technocrat “best practice” tropes.
Don’t get talked at by some ‘thought leader’ who drowns you in depressing data, sprinkled with hollow hope. We are a keystone species creating trophic cascades of change.
Don’t get talked at by some talking head who drowns you in overused storystock case studies and
it’s possible. it’s happening
Practitioner curated and crafted
The kete is practitioner built from being in the arena, which means no pale-male-stale consultancy speak, no death-by-power point, no long docs to read, no tired technocrat “best practice” examples from lazy talking heads, no ad-man soundbites and big stats in size 70 font with nature stock images. Instead, you get a distillation of what you need to take action, so you can apply it to your business or start-up, real life, real time. Short sharp videos, easy visual tools, clear distillations, practitioner-built models and downloadable pdfs.
No fluff, no waffle, no gimmicks, no BS.
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“It is hard to express just how incredible Melissa's program was. Her structured design-thinking and solid marketing background has given me a base to completely redesign my business. It has truly exceeded all of my expectations — my new business strategy is grounded in research and deep thinking; driven by the dual goals of profitability and purpose.”
Sophie Poelman, Founder Studio Alida
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“Melissa’s energy, eye for detail, 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 Arepa
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“It was a real privilege to work with Melissa as I looked at transforming an idea into reality. She helped me discover potential I hadn’t even thought of. She has this unique ability to connect the dots using her Regen Method which is such a useful and easy framework to follow. This was hugely valuable for my business strategy and I’m so appreciative!”
Jayne Chater, Founder Altris and Professionelle
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“Melissa provides our Masters entrepreneur students with a way to move through the complexity, observe a system, and see things holistically. Her frameworks and method are a magic combo - they give order to the disorder and get people unstuck. This is the key to momentum - forward motion. It's awesome!”
Sarah Hindle, General Manager, Tech Futures Lab
