About
About
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, 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 to working with those that seek to raise 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 numerous testimonials and endorsements from clients, collaborators, and colleagues.
In detail
A folio professional, Melissa’s executive-level experience spans several fields.
design science, foresight & futurism, start-up enterprise, writing & editorial, design, and speaking
Melissa works both in-house and out-of-house, independently and through agencies, with the set-up depending on the client brief, scheduling, and team / project structure.
Contact
Contact
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“inspired, challenged and entertained.”
Lux magazine
Uniquely shaped by decades of hands-on experience at the coalface of discovery in science, technology, and design, Melissa Sterry offers executive advisory services to corporations, government agencies, NGOs, VCs and investors, and start-ups worldwide. With rare transdisciplinary expertise spanning several complex commercial domains, she helps executives tackle complex challenges, foresee future risks, and unlock innovation. Her bespoke strategies and visionary insights drive sustainable, high-impact decision-making across diverse sectors.