About Bird Island
Bird Island is an innovation consultancy working at the intersection of imagination, strategy and systems change.
We help organisations respond to emerging challenges by designing new programmes, partnerships and ways of working.
Sometimes this means building an accelerator.
Sometimes it means convening a sector.
Sometimes it means helping a leadership team see what is coming next.
Always it means moving from possibility to action.
Our work spans: public innovation, economic development,
culture and heritage, Indigenous enterprise, future workforce transitions and frontier technology contexts including AI
Bird Island operates across Aotearoa, New Zealand and internationally.
Our perspective
The future does not arrive evenly. Some organisations experience change early. Others feel it suddenly. Bird Island helps leaders recognise signals before they become pressure. We combine: systems thinking, challenge design, strategic storytelling, ecosystem building, innovation programme design and applied imagination to help organisations respond with clarity and confidence.
Wonder is not decoration. It is infrastructure for change
Tui Te Hau
Ko Rongomaiwahine, ko Te Arawa, ko Ngāti Tūwharetoa ōku iwi.
Tui is an innovation leader and strategist with more than two decades of experience designing programmes that support entrepreneurship, cultural transformation and economic development.
Her work includes leadership roles across government, international trade, national cultural institutions and accelerator ecosystems.
She has designed and delivered nationally significant initiatives including: Mahuki, Lightning Lab, Magnitude 7, Activate Wellington, Selwyn Foundation Respectful Ageing Innovation Challenge and Burnett Foundation Innovation Challenge.
Tui works with organisations navigating complexity and opportunity at the same time.
Her practice focuses on helping leaders move from uncertainty to direction.
Get in Touch - Tui@birdisland.co.nz