About

Morro supports leaders and organizations in managing socio-cultural and environmental change.

As a strategic advisory, we aim to travel the distance with our clients through long-lasting partnerships. We guide change management processes that respond to the unique history, position, and entry points of each initiative. Collaboration sits at the heart of our practice, shaping how we design and shape strategies, initiatives, communications, and networks.

Working from a holistic understanding of the ecosystem at play, our goal is to facilitate pathways towards equitable change – and a world where:

Business models evolve to meet planetary health and wellbeing;
Communities are positioned to shape their own futures;
and Nature is regarded beyond an artificially associated financial value.

Our team

Ellie Lovett

Founder & Strategy Lead
Ellie draws on over twelve years of advising NGOs, businesses, philanthropists and university programs on scopes such as community-led development, landscape governance and social accountability in value chains. She is a registered social consultant of SA8000, the world’s leading standard on human rights in the workplace, as well as an avid gardener. Raised in Indonesia, Ellie brings a relational and grounded approach to her work. Life in the world’s largest archipelago has cultivated an utmost appreciation for biocultural diversity and ‘gotong royong’ – mutual cooperation. She continues to pursue pathways to creatively focus on the cultivation and revitalization of these linkages.

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Natasha Berting

Communications Lead
Natasha is a Bali-based communications specialist with a background in visual design, writing and publishing. Besides brand creation and strategy, she has over a decade of experience in researching and developing stories about the changing role of creativity in social and climate justice. This includes the production of digital content, print publications and media campaigns for organizations like What Design Can Do and Shado Mag. When she's not writing, she's usually working to bring other people's stories to life as an independent editor and publisher.

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Sayu Komang

Technical Lead
Gusti Ayu Komang Sri Mahayuni (Sayu) is a master trainer in agroecology, agroforestry, and food systems, grounded in Balinese agrarian culture and experienced with practices like biodynamic farming, permaculture design and food forests. She has worked across Indonesia and beyond, supporting Indigenous communities within local food systems, climate resilience, and enterprise development. Sayu brings deep experience to program management, monitoring and evaluation, supply chains and community enterprises.

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Abiyasa Adiguna

Illustrator, Graphic Designer & Motion Graphics
Abi is an illustrator and graphic designer based in Jakarta, Indonesia. He has spent years working on a wide range of design projects, including several report layouts, illustrations, infographics, and campaign videos focused on wildlife and the environment. His passion for drawing began at a young age, though he drifted away from it for a while as he explored other interests growing up. Today, he’s back to doing what he loves most: bringing visuals to life to help communicate meaningful stories to audiences.

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Katryn Ivania Chandra

Illustrator & Graphic Designer
Katryn is a graphic designer currently based in Bali. Through working on a range of projects, she discovered a growing interest in editorial design and illustration, and has been exploring both more deeply. Designing within the context of sustainability and nature conservation has expanded her perspective and shaped the way she approaches her work. It continues to inspire her to take on projects that feel thoughtful, meaningful, and impactful.

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The Morro Approach

Our work is grounded in a participatory approach that is holistic, strengths-first, creative, and insights-oriented.

We view every initiative or organization as a living system with many interconnected parts that are also influenced by internal and external drivers. These parts include organizational structures, management practices, values and culture in addition to a broader network of value chains, collaborators, communities, beneficiaries and/or customers.

By inspecting the entire system, a holistic view can be established. In the process, we can uncover and address root causes while enabling change mechanisms to be integrated from the ground up. We leverage our position as a third-party to facilitate you through a reflection process to develop a deeper understanding of what is happening in your specific context.
Working from our strengths identifies and leverages the inherent skill sets, resources and capabilities of the team, working environment, context and assignment. While needs and gaps are addressed, they do not dictate nor lead the process. Instead, pre-existing strengths are discovered and leveraged to drive uptake and impact. This alleviates the pressures of change management processes and encourages widespread buy-in and adoption of project developments as the solutions are discovered from within.
Creativity is the core tool we use to uncover practical solutions in the face of complex problems. It is a process-oriented and collaborative framework which we leverage for organizations to clarify, ideate, design, develop and formulate planning. We also acknowledge the vital role that communications and storytelling can play in transformative processes.
Insights that emerge from various social research methodologies are integrated during the working process to ensure that our work outcomes are participatory and context-specific. Research here is grounded in social and design techniques for both quantitative and qualitative analyses. Morro actively engages and seeks to understand perspectives and positionality of rights holders, resource users, partners and affected parties within the project assignment.