About Alternative Endings
It doesn't always have to end the same old way.
Alternative endings are the unpredicted, the unexpected, the delightful, imaginative and out-of-the-ordinary places we reach if we're curious, if we're bold enough to stray off the beaten track.
Alternative endings melt the frost and open a new day.
Annette Lees
I am owner and director of Alternative Endings. I have had a career-long fascination with understanding how we can improve the impact and effectiveness of the good work that people do for each other and for the natural world.
I have a special interest in landscape-scale conservation and environment programmes, supporting and engaging the partnerships and community of these places. My consulting approaches use collective impact and collaborative design thinking to analyse problems, test ideas and to grow resilient effective people and organisations. I work throughout New Zealand and the Pacific and have been consulting in these fields since 2000.
Along with training in community-based social marketing, collaborative stakeholder engagement, facilitation and coaching, I have an MSc in Protected Landscape Management, a BSc in Ecology, and a Diploma in Te Reo Māori (Te Wananga o Aotearoa).
I’m also the author of three non-fiction books about people and nature: After Dark: Walking into the Nights of Aotearoa (Potton and Burton, 2021), Swim: A Year of Swimming Outdoors in New Zealand (Potton and Burton, 2018), and The Deep Sky Waits on the Outskirts of Town (Reed, 1996).