about

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

We envision a world where business models evolve to meet the needs of human and planetary well-being, where communities are rightfully positioned to shape their own destinies and where Nature is regarded beyond an artificially associated financial value.

We work from a holistic understanding of the ecosystem at play, with a focus on facilitating equitable change. Through our services, we aim to form long-lasting partnerships with our clients, and guide change management processes based on the unique history, position and entry points within each initiative. Collaboration forms the basis of our work — which we understand is only possible if you believe in it too.

Our mission is to “equip those committed to equitable change with the insights and tools required for their given setting.”

We play a support function to help you:

Establish a systems understanding of the ecosystem at play
Design participatory and context-specific pathways for equitable change
Increase internal capacities to manage social and environmental processes
Build trust and develop accountability through communications

Our team

Ellie Lovett

Founding Director
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

Food Systems Expert
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, supporting Indigenous communities within strengthening 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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The Morro approach

The Morro approach explains our work process and the way we build impact with our partners.

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.