“Dorenda Britten is a wonderful presenter. Dorenda has presented to a number of Executive Massey MBA students and alumni over a number of years. 

Dorenda is a dynamic, interesting, and inspiring speaker. She captured and held the audience’s interest and imagination, challenging them to defy their current ways of thinking to explore and invent new ways of doing business. 

It can be a difficult task presenting to accomplished executives, but Dorenda did this with ease, pitching her message appropriately, leveraging the shared knowledge and experience of the MBA, whilst reminding the audience to stay afoot of the rapidly changing business, social and political environment. 

Dorenda is extremely professional, very knowledgeable, and was a highlight of our programme. She has valuable contributions to make and does so in a meaningful and memorable way.

I highly recommend Dorenda as a speaker. It was a pleasure working with her.”

“Dorenda Britten ran a workshop for students participating at the UC Innovators’ Summer Start-Up Programme at the University of Canterbury. The students were working on a range of ventures covering both for-profit and social enterprises. The intent of the workshop was to encourage the students to be more aware of the needs of society, the environment as well as financial return. Dorenda was very engaging from the beginning to the end of the workshop. From the start she had the students involved in a variety of “hands-on” activities. Throughout the workshop, she encouraged discussion and ensured that everyone participated.. I would recommend Dorenda for providing an innovative and engaging workshop on Design Thinking.”

“Tokona Te Ao really enjoyed Dorenda’s “Designing Solutions” workshop. It was both stimulating and fun and as a team, we appreciated the highly relevant content.”

“We were fortunate enough to recruit the services of Dorenda Britten from the Britten Institute. Dorenda did a superb job of facilitating our two-day offsite technical think tank session Not only was Dorenda able to tactfully facilitate, she also introduced thought-provoking ideas and tools to assist us in our journey. I would highly recommend Dorenda to those seeking a facilitator for sessions where results matter.”

“I have used Dorenda for the last three years as a design coach for our MBA design thinking elective class and anticipate continuing to do so in coming years. The feedback from the students, who are all experienced managers, is always excellent regarding Dorenda’s involvement. She consistently offers the right balance of challenging, cajoling and helping with connections that accelerate the students’ understanding and insight into both their practical projects and the underlying principles we are trying to demonstrate. She always brings great enthusiasm and energy to the group and I look forward to continue working with Dorenda in the future.”

“I have devoted many years to working on my product idea, developing, testing, and searching for someone to help me move it forward.  After a number of bad experiences, I made contact with Dorenda and within three weeks she had listened carefully to my idea, researched it, and came back with intelligent and thoughtful questions. 

Dorenda’s advice and planning skills have helped me to realise opportunities that had seemed beyond me. Her approach is warm and caring, but combines this with pragmatism, honesty, and attention to detail. She has helped me understand my strengths and weaknesses, the importance of connections and timing, and to see problems as challenges on a path to success.”

“For me Dorenda was a gamechanger for not only the project I was working on, in other areas as well.  She gave me a lot of confidence when I had doubts and helped me identify beneficial connections, connect ideas, and opened opportunities that I hadn’t thought of.  Dorenda is a creative, direct, and enthusiastic mentor, who will give it to you straight, with compassion, care, and fairness.  All people and companies who connect with Dorenda will immediately feel her energy and benefit greatly from working with her at any level. “

“Dorenda Britten is a longtime supporter and mentor on the innovation programmes we run through the UC Centre for Entrepreneurship. She has extensive innovation ecosystem knowledge, experience, and empathy that she shares with student ventures, with a high level of professionalism at all times. The UC team highly value Dorenda’s insights and her enthusiastic support for emerging innovation.”

“Dorenda has been a mentor with me on multiple Startup Weekend events. Her background spans a multitude of different areas from design through to strategy. She approaches people and organisations with a holistic attitude to product and service development that serves the real needs of real people. She promotes a broad contextual  view that includes social, environmental, and fiscal elements to ensure that the changes she influences impact all areas equally and positively.”