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Every engagement starts from the same place — your system, your context, and what's actually possible.
For leadership teams ready to see their business differently.
Every business is a system. It takes things in, transforms them, and puts things back out into the world. Most businesses have never stepped back to look at that system clearly — where value is being created, where it's being lost, and where the greatest opportunities for impact and commercial advantage actually lie.
That's what this workshop does. In a half or full day session, we map your current system, identify where impact — positive and negative — is being generated, and surface the opportunities you might be missing. The output isn't a report that sits on a shelf. It's a shared understanding, a set of priorities, and a clear sense of what to do next.
This isn't about adding sustainability to what you already do. It's about redesigning how you operate — so that doing good and doing well become the same thing.
For businesses whose story isn't keeping up with their reality.
Most impact-led businesses are doing more than they're saying. They've made genuine changes to how they operate — in their supply chain, their relationships, their materials, their community — but their brand and communications still sound like everyone else's. The story is there. It just hasn't been told yet.
This workshop helps leadership and marketing teams surface and articulate the genuine impact story that already exists in how you operate — not to create a sustainability narrative from thin air, but to find what's real and make it legible.
We look at what you actually do, where you diverge from the norm, where you're underselling, and where greenwashing risk might exist. Then we build a narrative framework that is grounded in your reality — compelling, credible, and consistent across everything you say and do.
For organisations that need ongoing strategic support.
Some challenges aren't solved in a workshop. For organisations navigating significant change — embedding impact into how they operate, transitioning toward circular models, or working through a period of strategic uncertainty — ongoing senior thinking partnership makes more sense than a one-off session.
The Studio Retainer is a monthly advisory relationship. One to two days per month, focused entirely on your priorities. You bring the questions and the context. Amanda brings systems thinking, commercial rigour, and pattern recognition from working across corporate, government, startup, and impact sectors.
This is not a project management or implementation role. It's strategic thinking partnership — the kind of senior perspective that helps you make better decisions, see around corners, and build something that lasts.
For impact-driven founders building something that matters.
Building something new is disorienting — especially when impact is built into the model from day one, not bolted on later. You're making decisions with incomplete information, limited resources, and no one to sense-check your thinking.
The Founders Studio is a structured advisory relationship for founders building businesses where social, environmental, or circular economy outcomes are central to the model — not a marketing layer. Amanda brings commercial rigour, lived founder experience, and deep expertise in impact business models to help you build with clarity rather than just momentum.
This can take the form of a one-off strategy session to work through a specific challenge or decision, or a short-term advisory retainer for founders at a critical inflection point.
From boardrooms to conference stages to podcast conversations.
Amanda speaks on circular economy, regenerative fashion, social procurement, and what it actually takes to build a business that does good without falling apart commercially. Her keynotes and podcast appearances are grounded in real experience — not theory — and designed to leave audiences with a new way of seeing, not just a new set of facts.
She has keynoted at New Zealand Design Week, appeared on RNZ and national radio in Australia, been featured on television including Fair Go, been interviewed by Ensemble Magazine and New Zealand Fashion Week, and is a published writer in Good Magazine. She is available for engagements across New Zealand and Australia.
A 30-minute discovery call is the fastest way to work out which engagement makes most sense for you. No pitch, no obligation.