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Moving Towards Action
The Unlock teams’ journey into a deeper understanding of dyslexia moves far beyond the personal experiences of the founders. The...

Dorenda Britten
Jul 10, 20242 min read
Reasons To Give Women All Your Money
Flip Grater and I were both present at the recent Electrify Aotearoa conference. Flip’s article focuses as it might on why women are...

Dorenda Britten
Jun 25, 20242 min read


Powering Technology
The tiny corners of the world not dominated by tech, will have missed TechWeek, which ran nationally last week. What a fantastic line up,...

Dorenda Britten
May 28, 20242 min read


How Big Things Get Done
Yesterday I ordered the book recommended by Lianne Dalziel in her Newsroom article, “How Big Things Get Done”, by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan...

Dorenda Britten
May 13, 20242 min read


We Need More Dreamers At the Table
My apparent jump from design to neurodiversity has been a mystery for many people, and the story may take some explaining. In the early...

Dorenda Britten
May 7, 20242 min read


Unlock Innovation Launch Survey
🚨 Survey One: The Hidden Potential of Dyslexia - one week to go! 🚨 ☕ With only 5 questions, you can do the survey while making a cuppa...

Dorenda Britten
Apr 24, 20241 min read
Unlock Innovation Launch
We are excited to announce the launch of our start-up company Unlock Innovation Limited and have posted a short survey on our new...

Dorenda Britten
Apr 16, 20241 min read


How to "Sell" the Future
Talking to my good friend Mike Hutcheson (Hutch as he is known) recently about how to “sell” the future. Mike has vast experience in...

Dorenda Britten
Mar 12, 20242 min read


Looking To the Future
The Productivity Commissions Looking To The Future Report out today, raises no new questions or answers as to how we are going to...

Dorenda Britten
Feb 13, 20242 min read


What Do You Do With An Idea?
Retirement isn’t in my DNA, dying on the job seems like the best option. This morning I bought myself a copy of a book that I had...

Dorenda Britten
Jan 30, 20242 min read


Optimising Our Economic Engine
The National Business Review on the 15th of January raised their concern that our new government optimise our economic engine. I have...

Dorenda Britten
Jan 24, 20242 min read


Building National Innovation Capacity
Despite what is happening in the world now, both locally and internationally, my hope is that we can come up with new ways to develop...

Dorenda Britten
Oct 31, 20232 min read


Inquiry Pathway: NZ Productivity Commission Workshop
Yesterday I attended the New Zealand Productivity Commission workshop in Christchurch, titled Future Inquiry Pathway. Acknowledging, to...

Dorenda Britten
Oct 10, 20232 min read


Canterbury Tech Summit
Today I was doing a rushed shop at a local supermarket, and I thought I saw a product advertising “dog beer”. As you do, I had to...

Dorenda Britten
Oct 10, 20232 min read
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