a consultancy for those ready 

to disrupt.

Disruption is..

Intentional actions that create powerful collaborations and craft blueprints for the future, sparking chain reactions that turn the everyday into the extraordinary.

We help create and implement disruptions, designed to deliberately affect the why, what and how we make, take and waste.

everything we do is designed to

disrupt 

patterns of production and consumption, including….

  • Disruption means designing better, ensuring resource efficiency and reducing waste; pricing inputs correctly (especially those sourced from nature); decoupling profit from production (through new business models) and being transparent about what and how much resources are used and where they have come from.

  • Disrupting means moving from linear to circular, eliminating waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in use and producing in a way that restores and regenerates natural systems.

  • DIsrupting means restoring and regenerating areas and communities; providing fair and just access to resources; ensuring a much greater level of transparency over resource use, (accounting for all impacts), tracing supply chains and delivering on deeper engagement and respect for local communities, valuing their creativity and knowledge.

we’re

changing

especially around concepts of ownership and responsibility

This involves accountability for the lifecycle of a product and making better products, enabling multiple and shared ownership by facilitating repair and reuse and recovering raw materials (for remanufacturing and recycling). These actions are what will build resilient, thriving and sustainable operations.

with each other and, especially, with nature

We build connections, collaborations and partnerships across the ecosystem and, importantly, relationships with nature. We help clients understand their reliance on nature (through quantifying and disclosing all ecological dependencies) and we work with them to reduce, repair and restore nature, including thinking and acting for the future, focusing on greener production practices to protect the planetary commons.

ensuring that people, planet, place have power

We drive clients to build and value actions that build care, connection and creativity, rooted in place. By working with communities directly affected by the way things have been done, we shift to a more inclusive approach, sharing power and delivering just and fair levels of production and consumption.

our

services 

Advisory

Blueprints

Convening

  • Julie is a master facilitator. She creates positivity and action from every group session.

    Mia Swainson

  • Our conversations with Julie are always fruitful and she provides the clarity and feedback loops to get the rubber hitting the road.

    Michael O’Neill | Victorian Government

  • Julie is efficient, organised and responsive. More importantly, she brings a real warmth, energy and passion to all her interactions and this plants the seeds of change in others.

    Petrina Apfel | NSW Government

  • Julie added so much value to our planning discussions and kept the conversations on track and outcome focussed.

    Jacqui Bell | Federal Government

examples and clients

join our  community

of disruptors

Weekly newsletter, personal reflections about disruptions.

Monthly musings on disruptions and disruptors, mostly fashion/fibre related.

Quarterly convening of an online space for disruptives to chat.

See also Canberra Environment Centre, Local Environmental Heroes podcast. It’s well worth a listen, not just if you live in CBR.

about 

system, disrupted is a small consultancy with big ideas. We believe in generating impact by working closely with our clients to co-design solutions to some really tricky problems.