Marisa AgrasutManaging Partner, The Inceptery Pte Ltd

A cognitively ambidextrous practitioner, facilitator, educator and

management consultant, Marisa blends management and leadership of strategic design and innovation. Her work across disciplines is broad - supporting organisations to understand, apply and leverage frameworks and methodologies to optimise value creation; from consulting to co-creating, with Fortune 500's, national ministries, non/not-just-for-profits and SMEs.

Marisa’s experience in cross-functional management began early on in her career where she was managing and leading teams to create value, solve problems and spot opportunities - balancing the various needs of the teams, clients and stakeholders to effectively achieve win-win results for all. It

was in such roles that it became clear that she had a particular knack as an interface between worlds - bridging the gap between strategy and implementation.

In 2009 Marisa embarked on her first sustainability-led business model venture, shifting the negative perception of plant-based eating; enabling reduced-carbon diets and responsible consumption - supporting organic farmers, through a (then) pioneering circularity, systems-thinking based business.

In 2016 co-founded The Inceptery, an innovation firm working at the edge of conventional boundaries and assumptions, challenging notions of success in our current paradigm - focusing on systemic value creation - combining her long-held experience in innovation, she has continued in her practice, whilst at the same time expanded into the work of supporting others through creating practical learning moments and capability building.

Since 2023 as one of the Matcha Initiative Buddies, she has been delivering the Circular Economy Master Class.