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 work for public good outcomes, with a special interest in bringing together people and place. My consulting approaches use a range of tools, curated specially for each client and each unique situation 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 a fifth generation Pākehā with whānau connections, through my husband and sons, to Tūwharetoa and Te Ati Haunui a Pāpārangi.
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).