As an advocate, I wear many hats, and I’m involved in numerous roles such as: managing multiple community projects, brand consultation, sustainability marketing, and idea creation.
I primarily speak on zero waste, impact of fast fashion and ways to reduce plastic consumption. I work with many organisations to help spread the message across and adopt sustainable living habits. Below are some of the brands I’ve worked with to help amplify their cause and message.
I hope to see more companies follow suit in the race to help save this earth.
Consultant
Community Activation
Events
You can get support turning an idea into an event that people actually engage with. This includes shaping the purpose, designing the format, and planning how people take part.
Grassroots Mobilisation
You can get help activating a community without relying on hype or pressure.
This work focuses on defining clear actions, identifying who to involve, and structuring participation.
Social Contribution
You can get support clarifying how your organisation shows up in a community.This includes reviewing current efforts and designing contribution strategies that are credible and appropriate.
Creative Development
Storytelling Through Social Media
You can get help defining what you want to say before deciding on a strategy.
This work clarifies message, audience, and narrative direction.
Workshops
You can use workshops to unblock decisions, align teams, or develop ideas.
Sessions are designed around a specific problem you want to solve.
Sustainability Initiatives
Ideation and Validation
You can get support pressure testing sustainability ideas early.
This includes checking feasibility, stakeholder relevance, and impact assumptions.
Speaker / Moderator
Melissa is a seasoned speaker for environmental issues, offering balanced, realistic views with an optimist’s lens.
Leveraging on her experience as a low-waste practitioner, climate communicator and years of collaboration and involvement with local and international non-profits, she cuts through the noise and helps corporates and communities on their journey in climate action
Geared towards climate action, explore the nuances of environmental issues and its complex, often imperfect solutions with Melissa.
- Interview: Zero Waste Living (Hello Mentor Podcast)
- Climate Action for Everyone (TGG Digital Earth Week)
- Composting (TGG Digital Earth Week)
- Circular Economy in Action (ThinkCity – Earth Week)
- Documentary Commentary (ThinkCity – Earth Week)
- Sustainable Fashion (Alyfe Connects)
- Zero Waste Wardrobe ( Zero Waste Malaysia)
- Interview: Zero Waste Living (Modelpreneuer – Elite Network)
- World Environment Day Talk (UEM Malaysia Facebook)
- Environmentalism, Zero Waste Living (Podcast: Ssup Influencer/Nuffnang/Malaysia)
- Moderator: Food Waste (AIESEC in Sunway)
- Zero Waste Talk / Zero Waste Living (BNP Paribas)
- Zero Waste Travel Made Simple (Swap 4 Earth Singapore)
- Cooler Earth – Circular Economy (CIMB Cooler Earth)
- Volvo Sustainability Talks
- Intel Earth Day
- MYD Fireside Chat with ASEAN’s Climate Leaders
- Fave Presents: Building Sustainable Lifestyle One Habit at a Time
- Standard Chartered: Sustainable Fashion & The Zero Waste Wardrobe
- ZWM – Chubb Insurance
- Sectoral Strategies To Transitioning to Low Carbon Cities (MyL3C)
- Zero Waste Living for #ClimateMonth – Zurich Malaysia
- Tenaga Nasional Berhad – Reimagining the Future
- Gamuda – Sustainable Living Made Easy
- Ikano Retail Insights
- UEM Edgenta – Environmental Outreach
- Rainforest Youth Summit – Moderator
- Purcotton
- Petronas Development HSSE
- KL Sustainability Summit
Workshop and Discussion Topics
If you’re looking for workshops that range anywhere from 1 hour to 4 hours, something more hands-on or a session to really dive deep into improving sustainability at the workplace, here are some suggested topics that Melissa can cover.
. Melissa is an Accredited Trainer with HRD Corp.
. Please ask us about HRDC Claimable Courses.
Climate Reality: Understanding the Climate Crisis
Do you have questions about the greatest challenge we face and what you can do about it? How do you make sense of all the natural disasters plaguing our world? Forest fires, coral bleaching, loss of habitat are just the tip of the melting iceberg. What do we know and how can we do something?
Melissa has been trained under The Climate Reality Project by Nobel Laureate Al Gore to talk about our changing climate in simple terms that make it easy for anyone to understand what’s happening and what can be done.
What we will cover:
- the science of the climate crisis
- explain the practical solutions that are already available today
- simple things you and your network can do to make a difference
Duration: Talk and Discussion (60 mins)
Zero Waste Living / How To Live Zero Waste
Discover the answer to the question: Can we live without creating waste? This workshop intends to equip you with the mindset and tools so that you can align your values as a conscientious individual with your lifestyle. Filled with life hacks, tips, and tricks beyond “bringing your own bag”, it takes a fresh look at the daily choices we make as we learn to live with close-to-zero waste.
It will focus on:
- The connection between our choices and actions as an individual to the greater world around us
- How we can make a meaningful impact through a shift in perspective and simple adaptations in daily living
- The 5 Rs of the Zero Waste Lifestyle
- Navigating social situations gracefully to not create waste
- Local resources available and how to navigate going zero waste in any location
Duration: Talk and Discussion (60 mins)
Sustainable Fashion: Building Your Zero Waste Capsule Wardrobe
Whether you’re an #OOTD queen or rock a style that is simple and functional, discover how you can go zero waste with your wardrobe as Melissa shares on how she enjoys an unlimited wardrobe and stays fashion forward, without buying anything new for the last 3 years.
This workshop aims to equip every woman with the tools to attain a never-ending stylish wardrobe in an eco-friendly way as we shift towards consuming fashion more sustainably
Take back control of your wardrobe with outfits that not only make you feel good, but saves time, money and the environment.
This workshop will cover:
- The 7 different ways we can enjoy fashion sustainably
- Minimalism and navigating the “need for more”
- Capsule wardrobes and how to build your own wardrobe that’s ‘just enough’
Duration: Workshop and Discussion (60mins)
Hands-on Workshop: Composting 101
Malaysians send 16,000 tons of food waste to the landfill every single day, with approximately 50% of our daily trash made up of food waste.Composting diverts organic waste from the landfill and turns it into compost i.e. Black Gold, returning nutrients to the ground and regenerate healthy soil.
It is one of the best things you can do for the environment, and your garden. The process of composting is a combination of art and science – but it’s simpler than you think! This incredibly satisfying endeavour will not only cut your daily waste in half, you’ll never have to deal with smelly trash bins again.
This workshop will cover:
- how composting works and what can you compost
- setting up a compost bin and building a routine
- different methods suitable for all living situations – from big backyards to small spaces and condominiums
- Troubleshooting, dealing with constraints and pitfalls
Duration: Workshop and Discussion (60 mins)
Zero Waste Workplaces
Does this represent your current situation?
- Struggling to align sustainability values with workplace habits?
- Unsure how to implement zero-waste strategies without disrupting operations?
- Are events and meetings generating excess waste due to lack of awareness?
- Want to foster a culture of sustainability but don’t know where to start?
This workshop will cover:
- Understand how workplace consumption impacts the environment and business efficiency.
- Learn practical ways to reduce waste in daily operations, meetings, and events.
- Apply the 5 Rs of Zero Waste (Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot) in a business setting.
- Develop strategies to introduce and normalize sustainability at work.
- Identify local and adaptable resources to support zero-waste efforts in any workplace.
Duration: Workshop and Discussion (4 hours)
Cultivating a Sustainability Mindset for ESG
Is this common in your workplace?
- Are employees disengaged from sustainability goals from daily business operations?
- Struggling to balance profitability with environmental and social responsibility?
- Seeing sustainability initiatives as extra work rather than an opportunity for innovation, efficiency, and long-term value creation?
- Lacking genuine engagement to integrate sustainability into business decisions?
At the end of the session participant will learn the following:
- Understand corporate sustainability and its role in long-term business success.
- Identify the environmental, social, and economic impacts of business operations.
- Learn practical ways to embed sustainability into daily workflows.
- Explore how corporate responsibility enhances brand value and employee engagement.
- Develop an action plan to integrate sustainability into their roles.
Duration: Workshop and Discussion (4 hours)
Content Creation and Production
Melissa develops content for her platform and brands’ use to support their campaign messaging and unique selling points while drawing meaning to the grander picture of the sustainability agenda.
With multiple brand collaborations under her belt, her storytelling anchors around topics like climate action, sustainable living, sustainable cities, community and connection, sustainability in fashion, and global issues like the climate crisis, biodiversity crisis, and ocean conservation.
Sustainability Campaigns
Melissa’s focuses on honest and authentic message that steers away from ‘greenwashing’. She supports brands in co-developing campaign messaging supporting their unique selling points while drawing meaning to the grander picture of the sustainability agenda.
Her oversight and guidance of campaign messaging can include curation of suitable content creators and/or conducting sustainability literacy sessions with content creators to deliver accurate and meaningful content that is inspirational and thought-provoking, according to their strengths and creativity.
This can be coupled with tailored community engagements events that will support the storytelling elements for media.
Community Engagement Events
Melissa has been curating community events that raise awareness and translates awareness into action in a local context for 6 years.
Her on-the-ground experiential events are designed to make a lasting impact with your audience through hands-on, contemplative and action-oriented activities that support long-term sustainable practices, drawing from her rich network of advocates, non-profits and solutionists and her creative curiosity.
- Clothes Swap
- Digital Earth Week
- Clothes Swap x Rawsome
- Clothes Swap x Supparetreat at Komune Coworking
- Clothes Swap x Green Hero
- World Cleanup Day
- Clothes Swap x Think City in Penang
- Stitch n Bitch – The Waste Journey
- Sustainable Fashion & Zero Waste Living (EarthDay.org)
- Zero Waste Living – Sea Monkey Project
- Second Hand Summer – in conjunction with Circular Cities Week 2021
- The Conscious Market
- Green Day Out
- Fashion Revolution Week,
- Sustainability themed pop-up events for community and brands (The Botanist, Gamuda)
- Racheal Kwacz x Sisterhood Swap
Clients I’ve worked with:
Implementing sustainable measures for the workplace?
Setting up a clothes swap or even creating a fun composting workshop?
Bring awareness to action.
Are you up for the challenge?