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/-ster Innovation

Fractional leadership & bespoke consultancy

Access to innovative thinking

and executing on vision.

Innovate

Ready to disrupt an industry or shake up the status quo?

Discover

Have an idea but need to better understand the market?

Evolve

Grow. Expand. Scale.

Business Design

Design (or redesign) your end-to-end service delivery.
A blend of product strategy, customer insight and operational excellence.

Fractional Leadership

COO/CCO

Need part-time or temporary help scaling your business, commercially or operationally?

 

Coaching and Facilitation

Coaching during times of change or one-off help running energetic workshops with the team, customers or partners. 

About

/-ster Innovation

 

Sandy Isaac

Sandy is the connector and systems thinker behind Ster Innovation.

She has years of experience with start-ups, consultancies, corporates, central and local government – solving problems in varied landscapes and bringing ideas to life with a wide range of perspectives.

Sandy comes on board as part of your team to live & breathe your business while working with you to contribute to strategy and run execution.

Find out more on her LinkedIn Profile, on What Founders Want or her vCxO directory page.

Values

Business values are simple: 

Care

Your business is my business and I treat it as my own. 

Honest communication

Communication is everything. Let’s keep it simple and honest. 

Reliability

Doing what we say we’re going to do. 

Coffee?

Let’s meet in-person or online & chat about how we can work together.  

Some companies we’ve worked with

Testimonials

“We have loved working with Sandy at Creative HQ. She is an incredible problem solver, strategic thinker and team builder. Her experience with both early-stage startups and large organisations gives her a flexibility and depth which is awesome to work with. I definitely recommend finding a way to involve her in your work.”

— Luke Ball, GM Startups

“Sandy ran an ideation workshop for us and a set of senior digital clients. She did a great job to align multiple perspectives through innovative design thinking exercises that left everyone feeling energised and committed to a shared vision. Her collaborative nature and positive attitude made a mark with all of us and I’d recommend Sandy to anyone looking for a solid service design practitioner.”

– Edwin Rozells, Country Manager, Accenture

Sandy thrives in highly creative and challenging, innovative environments. We at Creative HQ have worked with her in several contexts – public sector innovation, blockchain, FinTech, non-for-profit and a virtual hackathon for Covid relief. In all of these contexts, she excelled at driving the team forward and getting the most out of her fellow teammates. Her strategic problem solving is fantastic and she is well versed in design thinking methodologies. She is also a pleasure to work with and always brings a smile with her.”

– Brett Holland, CIO, Creative HQ

“I have worked with Sandy three times over the past four years and cannot recommend her highly enough as a brilliant project manager and highly effective team player. She is an absolute stickler for checking details, at the same time as thinking of the bigger picture and the implications for things further down the track. She plans things out and thinks through unexpected aspects of a project. She is thoroughly professional and ensures all interactions are conducted with a very professional and straightforward manner. Along with that she is a hugely personable and very emotionally intelligent individual as well as being a delight to work with.”
– Melanie Thornton, Executive Director, NZIIA

Contact

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Based in AKL, New Zealand and available remotely.