Experience
Primarily concerned with projects that chart unprecedented conceptual, creative, and commercial potentialities emerging at the interface of science, technology, engineering, and design, from first-to-market start-ups to groundbreaking research, publications, events, awards, education programmes, and more, Melissa has extensive experience of working with leading-edge ideas, individuals, and institutions worldwide.
“We highly recommend Melissa as an advisory board member. We’ve found her to be consistently insightful, considerate and competent, especially with the tricky issues of complexity. For the more than a decade that we’ve known Melissa, her grasp of forecasting the implications of potential actions have been accurate and far sighted.”
— Gavin and Alice Munro, Founders of Full Grown, UK
Brief
Taking you to futures possible, Melissa’s career revolves around crafting highly creative solutions to complex and critical issues faced by people and planet. Her expertise spanning myriad disciplines, sectors, cultures, and communities, she brings a 360° perspective to problems faced by industry, commerce, academia, and society at large.
Melissa’s academic and professional qualifications, executive experience, awards, honours, and other credentials extending across science, design, enterprise, innovation, and the arts, she utilises a folio of transdisciplinary skills, expertise, and understanding to take ideas from paper to reality, and in wide-ranging contexts.
A serial founder known for putting her money where her mouth is and for walking her typically candid talk, and for pushing boundaries not paper, Melissa divides her time between developing both her own projects and those of others, as well as helping corporate and other clients on their journey towards a more sustainable and socially equitable future.
Ways in which she helps her clients to see, understand, and respond to possible future risks and opportunities both within and beyond their sectors include leading enterprise and innovation programs, providing insights through bespoke research, delivering inspiring keynotes, and crafting media, communications and other content.
Values
Discerning in the briefs she selects, Melissa commits only to working with those that seek to raise sustainability and social standards, not lower them, and that are visionary in their approach and ambitions.
Peer recognition of the value of her works and work ethics include several national and international innovation, creativity and enterprise awards and honours, over 100 invited keynotes and other prestigious speaking assignments worldwide, and testimonials and other endorsements from clients, collaborators, and colleagues.
In detail
A folio professional with executive level experience spanning several fields, you can read Melissa’s credentials collectively or individually, as relate to her various areas of expertise. If you’d like to read her biography click here, read her resume here, and read breakdowns of her careers as a design scientist, biofuturist, founder, speaker, writer, and designer at the links.
If you’d like to see examples of works she completed earlier, find a select list of past speaking engagements here, publications here, press and media here, footage here, and folios for each of her different areas of experience here. If you’d like to read what a few of her past clients, collaborators, and colleagues have to say about her, click here and find out some of the ways she can help you here.
Melissa works with clients both in-house and out-of-house, and both independently and through agents and agencies worldwide, with the set-up depending on the type of brief, its duration, and the overall structure of the team and project. Get in touch through the contact page if you’d like to explore working together, or contact one of her agents if you’d prefer.
“inspired, challenged and entertained.”
Lux magazine