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Working with you and for you

One Thursday evening, two women met by chance at Vogelmorn Precinct in Wellington. They hit it off, chatted for 20 minutes, exchanged numbers, and a few months later opened a small film festival at Vogelmorn. A few years later, after multiple art projects and professional jobs together, these women teamed up, joining forces to open a company doing for others what they do best: build highly functional, connected, and healthy work environments. That’s us, Alsu and Ruth. Nice to meet you. We’d love to share a little more about us, find out about you, and how we can help you.

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Our Team

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Ruth

Ruth grew up in the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and has since lived in the middle east, former Soviet Union, and on Te Waka o Maui South Island, before coming to Te Whanganui-a-Tara. One of Ruth’s earliest jobs was as a forest firefighter, working in high pressure and sometimes dangerous situations with teams of people. This experience developed her ability to quickly assess a situation, identify pathways forward and work constructively with others to get the job done. This passion for momentum is part of Ruth’s approach in all she does (she has since worked in ski instructing, teaching, aged-care, academia, policy, local government, public sector, and not-for-profits). Across these diverse experiences she knows how to build momentum towards achieving goals. Beyond paid work, Ruth is an artist, a jock, and a lover of nature.

Co-Founder

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Alsu was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, lived in London, UK, Nelson and has Te Whanganui-a-Tara as her home for the last ten years. She comes from the Tatar ethnicity, and all her ancestors lived within a hundred kilometres in the valley of Volga river. She holds a PhD in cognitive linguistics, spent half of her career being an adviser to senior leaders, and the other half being a senior leader herself. She worked in a wild variety of industries and environments, from art galleries to courts, from an investment company to private aviation, to higher education, to startup. This extremely diverse experience and absolute passion for communication and people relationships allows her to step away from the weeds of your specific operational context and see the more generic patterns and opportunities that will make a difference.

Co-Founder

Alsu