Wild-Built | Workshop Facilitation & Strategic Planning

How do you plan five years ahead, when the last five made no sense?

That’s the strategic question of the moment — and there isn’t just one burning platform. There are several, smouldering at once, and smoke has a way of finding the same room. This is our predicament[1].

Wild-Built builds the risk literacy to read what’s coming, and the imaginative capacity to shape it — with boards and executive teams ready to do more than defend business-as-usual.

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[1]  PREDICAMENT
The convergence of interconnected and compounding pressures (ecological, economic, social, geopolitical) whose early signs we’re already experiencing. Right now, we get to choose: design for continuity, or wait to be dealt a hand.
Facilitation | Future Literacy | Vision-Building | Strategy | Risk Literacy | Climate Literacy | Imagination Sparking | Brand Advisory |
Why Wild-Built

Most organisations can’t picture a future that isn’t just more of the same.

But the conditions our strategies were built for no longer hold.

Facing that honestly — with clear eyes, curiosity, and a bit of courage — is where the real opportunities are hiding.

Shared seeing

Building the climate, biodiversity and systems literacy your whole team needs to recognise what’s changing and why it matters now.

Braver imagination

Using foresight and narrative scenario planning to help you imagine plausible futures and decide what to preserve, change or become.

Grounded action

Turning future insight into context-informed strategy for adaptation and continuity, built to be used.

Enduring together

Embedding the communication bridges, internal language and shared story that keep momentum alive after the room disperses.

What we do

Four bodies of work, one common thread

From building risk literacy to co-creating strategy, each engagement meets you where you are — and builds the imaginative capacity to shape what’s next.

Melissa Packham (a caucasian woman with glasses and long brown curly hair, wearing a yellow blazer) and Adam Suckling (a caucasian man with light brown hair and facial hair, white shirt) stand in front of a table with climate literacy cards spaced out in front of them
The Seeing Work

Risk Literacy Workshops

Build the shared awareness your organisation needs to recognise what’s changing and why it matters.
Climate literacy · Biodiversity loss · Systems thinking
Melissa Packham (a caucasian woman with glasses and long brown curly hair, wearing a black blazer and colourful checkered dress) stands at a lecturn presenting, the crowd is blurred in front of her
The Imagining Work

Futures & Vision Workshops

Imagine plausible futures and explore what your organisation may need to preserve, change or become.
Foresight · Scenario planning · Futures thinking
The Enduring Work

Strategy Co-Creation

Lead or complement your strategic planning with futures embedded from the start—turning insight into grounded strategy.
Strategic planning · Context-informed strategy
The Story Work

Brand, Messaging & Narrative

For mission-led NFPs and social enterprises ready to align strategy, narrative and brand in a future-ready context.
Brand strategy · Messaging · Strategic comms
In practice

Imagination in action

For Huon Valley Council and UTAS, we designed and facilitated a Narrative Climate Futures workshop — guiding councillors and community to imagine liveable futures for the region, and pressure-test what it would take to get there.

It’s since been written up as a published case study.

Read the case study →
Huon Valley Council Liveable Futures narrative scenario workshop case study report
Who we work with

This work is for you if…

Boards & leadership teams

You sit on a board or leadership team planning for the future — sensing business-as-usual assumptions won’t hold, but not sure how to have that conversation.

Local government

You’re leading sustainability or climate initiatives in local government, and struggling to turn technical risk into conversations your exec team or councillors will take seriously.

NFPs & mission-led organisations

You’re stewarding environmental or resilience work in a mission-led organisation — a formal role or a ‘passion project’ — and want to elevate its importance and strategic relevance.

Consultants & advisors

You advise clients on strategy, risk or sustainability, and want to build your own overshoot literacy to stay relevant and credible.
Where we cut our teeth
Two decades leading brand, marketing and innovation inside big business.
Brands we have worked with across two decades in big business
Who we are

A wild mix of skills, one shared lens

Here’s who you’ll be working with.
Melissa Packham (a caucasian woman with glasses and long brown curly hair, wearing a blue blazer, black jumpsuit and a tan belt) with a wide, warm smile and clicking her fingers

Melissa Packham

Co-founder · Strategy, Brand & Facilitation

After more than a decade leading major FMCG brands (Campbell Arnott’s, Parmalat) and another decade consulting independently, I bring a unique blend of business strategy, brand and marketing expertise — with a focus on authentic sustainability and challenging the ‘business-as-usual’ paradigm. I translate complex environmental and systems challenges into accessible learning experiences boards and teams can actually use.

The word people are most likely to use to describe me? ‘Quirky’ — which I happily take as a compliment. I’m a mama to one, plant mama to many, with an eclectic taste in music that’s a mystery to most.

Credentials
  • GAICD (Graduate, Australian Institute of Company Directors)
  • Board Chair, Australian Institute of Food Science & Technology
  • Member, Institute of Management Consultants
  • B. Business (Marketing) / B. Arts (Humanities)
  • Accredited facilitator: Climate Fresk, Biodiversity Collage, Planetary Boundaries Fresco & Circular Economy Collage

Adam Suckling

Co-founder · Innovation, Sustainability & Systems

With 18 years of specialist knowledge across innovation, sustainability and product development, I bring a pragmatic, systems-thinking approach to every project — grounded in research and experimental design. I know the science well enough to make it useful rather than alarming, and I’m as at home in the lab as in the boardroom.

The word people are most likely to use to describe me? ‘Funny.’ I’m a dad to one, a craft beer aficionado, with a penchant for remembering the most random facts and 90s jingles (which comes in real handy at pub trivia).

Credentials
  • PhD Candidate, ANU — Responsible Innovation in Food Manufacturing
  • Professional Member, Australian Institute of Food Science & Technology
  • Master of Entrepreneurship & Innovation (Sustainable Energy)
  • Bachelor of Food Technology (Hons)
As seen in
As seen in: Forbes, Entrepreneur, SmartCompany, Mumbrella, IFT, inside FMCG, inside small business
What we stand for

We’re about this

  • ✓Holistic and systems-led
  • ✓Future-readiness
  • ✓Genuinely sustainable
  • ✓Purpose-driven
  • ✓Activating imagination
  • ✓Bringing humanity back into business
  • ✓Accountability and responsibility

Not this…

  • ✗Vanity or ‘feel good’ changes
  • ✗Greenwashing
  • ✗Marketing claims
  • ✗Discrete sustainability initiatives
  • ✗Box-ticking
  • ✗Profit above all else
  • ✗Offsetting to hide negative impacts

It’s time to get wild.

In the face of everything the world is throwing at us, the rule book of business-as-usual has been thrown out the window — so we’re going to need to get wild to build a future we want to see.
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