WONDER & WANDER
Growth & Venture Studio

Reimagine what's possible. Build what comes next.

We help ambitious leaders transform organisations, grow ventures and build the capability to move forward.

Combining human-centred design, AI and commercial experience, we work alongside you to turn big questions into clear decisions, and decisions into action.

Melbourne · Auckland · Working globally

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01 / What we do

What are you ready to change?

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Transform your organisation

You can see the need for change. The challenge is deciding where to start and bringing your people with you.

We help leaders shape AI strategy, redesign customer experiences and improve how their organisations work, with senior guidance close to the decisions that matter.

AI strategy and adoption · Customer experience · Operating model design · Fractional leadership

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02

Build or grow a venture

You have an ambitious idea, an established business ready for its next chapter, or an opportunity that needs the right partners.

We help sharpen the proposition, design the business model, test demand and create a practical path to market. For selected opportunities, we explore a deeper venture partnership.

Venture design · Business models · Market validation · Growth strategy · Partnerships

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03

Develop your people

Your strategy needs people with the confidence, judgement and skills to bring it to life.

Our workshops, leadership experiences and keynotes help teams think differently, work with AI and turn curiosity into practical progress.

AI literacy · Design thinking · Leadership development · Keynotes

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Ways in: Wonder Audit (free) · Light Touch Advisory · Fractional Co-Founder or C-Suite · Keynotes · Design Thinking with AI

02 / Communities we built

Change sticks when people belong.

The best ideas only matter when people live them. So we don't just advise. We build the rooms people want to be in.

03 / Ventures

We build businesses and communities of our own, too.

Creating something ourselves keeps us close to the realities our clients face: finding an audience, testing an offer, building trust and making the economics work.

Explore the ventures and communities we're building, the partnerships behind them and what we're learning along the way.

Meet our ventures
Portrait of Sarah Pirie-Nally, founder of Wonder & Wander
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Wonder & Wander Advisory.

Human-centred AI strategy, design and transformation for leaders and boards.

Past ventures

Expedition participants observing penguins on Antarctica's snowy shoreline
Past venture

Stewardship Antarctica.

153+ leaders went to the last true wilderness and came home as advocates, not tourists.

With Insider Expeditions, Steve Pirie-Nally stepped in as acting CEO and Sarah Pirie-Nally as acting COO, together navigating growth, expansion and the move into B2C.

A leadership expedition co-designed with Insider Expeditions.

Partnered with the University of Tasmania to connect students with Antarctic researchers, developing the next generation of environmental stewards and systems thinkers.

Lessons

  • Design for the return: the real expedition starts when people get home, so build the community and follow-up in from day one.
  • Protect time for reflection. Awe turns into action when people have space to make sense of it.
  • Lead with education and transformation, and set expectations early so every guest knows the journey they're joining.
  • Pair adventure with evidence. Research with the University of Tasmania showed leaders bringing stewardship into their homes and workplaces six months on.
Wonder Lab's branded glass entrance beside a lush green living wall
Past venture

Wonder Lab.

Auckland's first Well-being by Design Lab. Founded by Steve and Sarah, it brought design thinking and neuropsychology together with infrared sauna, ice bath, Pilates, yoga, recovery and a calmer boardroom. We tested it, learned from it and closed it.

Closed

Big thinking.
Real-world proof.

Involved in $700M+ of transformation
$100M+ revenue created or impacted
30K+ leaders reached
06 continents of work and wonder
22 years of human-centred design
Sarah Pirie-Nally, Co-Founder of Wonder & WanderSteve Pirie-Nally, Co-Founder of Wonder & Wander

Meet Sarah and Steve.

Wonder & Wander brings together two complementary strengths: designing what comes next and connecting the people who can make it happen.

Sarah Pirie-Nally, Co-Founder

Strategy, human-centred design, AI and venture architecture. Sarah helps turn complex challenges into clear choices, useful experiences and practical business models.

Steve Pirie-Nally, Co-Founder

Partnerships, commercial development and growth. Steve brings people and opportunities together to help ventures reach customers, build relationships and expand.

Together, we bring curiosity, commercial thinking and a willingness to get close to the work.

More about us

Bring us the ambition. Or the thing that's stuck.

Perhaps you're navigating AI, rethinking your organisation or building something new.

Start with a conversation. We'll explore what you want to achieve, what's getting in the way and whether we're the right people to help.