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Melissa Saoudy

Purpose-Driven Strategist, Social & Environmental Innovator

ex-EY

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PAST CLIENTS

I am an impact advisor, creator, and doer. My sweet spot is at the nexus of purpose, strategy, and innovation.

Offerings

Consulting & Advising

I'm obsessed with seeing design come to life. This is why I love to work closely with organizations to provide support, advice, and guidance

Starting with purpose... always razor focused on understanding what creates value and getting there. test, iterate, learn... repeat

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Melissa in action

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Purpose-driven Strategy and Innovation

🗣️ Learning EcosystemsCommunity-as-a-ServiceLearning Experiences+3 more

To fulfill the UAE leadership’s vision of creating a culture of innovation, the Ministry of Finance launched the Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund (MBRIF) Accelerator to provide bespoke services to the highest potential innovators to thrive. Melissa worked alongside a diverse team of entrepreneurs, consultants and public sector officials through conceptual design, launch and operations.

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Advising a disruptive climate-tech start-up Met Amazonia

🌱 Climate Change🤗 Inclusion & AccessibilityCapabilities Kickstarter+3 more

Melissa is involved in building a digital twin of the largest private reserve for sustainable development in the Amazon Rainforest. The start-up is introducing fractional ownership of the reserve through a digital twin, which is a first in Amazon history. They offer utilities for organizations and individuals and are introducing new models such as Impact-as-a-Service (IAAS). Metamazonia is a powerful concept that represents the Refi revolution an... + more

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Defining a population-based national strategy for health and wellness

❤️‍🩹 Good Health & Well-being⚕️ Public Health⚖️ Public Policy+3 more

Worked closely with the ministry and the broader system from conceptualization to launch taking a population-based approach for a national five year health strategy. Conducted needs and interventions assessments, refined national priorities, led system engagement efforts to define the implementation plan, governance and communication. Wrote up the final strategy documents before handing over to copywriters

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Dubai Urban Environment Climate Analysis

🌱 Climate ChangeSystem Design

Conducted an in-depth analysis of the Dubai Urban environment using human centered human-centred design and systems thinking to diagnose systemic barriers to sustainability and identify high impact high-impact opportunities

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Human-centered Emirate Volunteering Framework

🤗 Inclusion & Accessibility⚖️ Public Policy👩🏼‍💼 Local Governance+2 more

Developed the Emirate’s volunteering strategy using human-centered methods to define the volunteering vision, framework, and policy.

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Innovation, Strategy & Design Thinking Workshops

🤗 Inclusion & Accessibility👩🏼‍💼 Local Governance⚖️ Public Policy+2 more

Delivered 100s of engagement events on understanding needs, problem definition, ideation, and solution building across a range of industries and challenge areas, such as ”future of” workshops, business model innovation, government service hackathons, design thinking training, social innovation etc.

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Future Livability Model and Citizen of the Future

👩🏼‍💼 Local GovernanceVision EnablerAgility Accelerator

Led a team to develop a model for livability unique to NEOM, KSA and the region informed by deep analysis of local needs, global indices and future foresight, underpinned by a dynamic digital platform

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National Parent Wellbeing Program in the Private Sector

🧒🏼 Children's Rights👩🏼‍💼 Local Governance⚖️ Public Policy+1 more

Led, designed and implemented a program to define culturally appropriate working parent wellbeing including increased parental leaves

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Wellbeing Strategy

👩🏼‍💼 Local Governance⚖️ Public Policy❤️‍🩹 Good Health & Well-being+1 more

Developed of the Abu Dhabi wellbeing strategy to combat local social challenges and improve wellbeing outcomes for families, youth, and Senior Citizens, underpinned by a deep understanding of the needs of the local populations, wellbeing measurement model, policy monitoring framework, and system-wide governance model

Areas I'm passionate about

As creative leaders with a shared commitment to quality, collaboration, and creativity, we're proud to pursue out most meaningful work and deliver the best every time.

MAIN PASSION

⚖️ Public Policy

Why so? — Policy always has a role to play in systemic change

🌱 Climate Change

👩🏽 Women's Rights

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Julian Ellerby

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Innovation Partner. Learning Designer. Creative Facilitator.

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Strategic Design for Climate Resilience | Founder of IMMA Collective

doug morwood

Systems Entrepreneur; Place-Based Innovation, Regenerative Design

ex-Business Models Inc

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Hsing Wei

UX & Product Designer, Creative Technologist, Strategist, Facilitator

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Marc OBrien

Climate Designer / Strategist

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Lisa Baird

Design strategy clairvoyant.

Fanny Eliaers

Holistic Sustainability Advisor: Guiding organizations in harmonizing their Environmental and Social initiatives / Circular Design Strategist / MIT Candidate

ex-Sid Lee

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I believe in Neol because it provides a platform for purposeful action and collaboration among passionate, multidimensional, and multitalented people, creating new types of value in the world. I'm honored to help scale its impact.

Melissa Saoudy

Purpose-Driven Strategist, Social & Environmental Innovator