About Natural Assets

Tessa Mackenzie started the company in 1998 with an emphasis on supporting people to develop their Natural Assets to achieve positive change.  Tessa offers facilitation, mentoring, and professional development with individuals, groups, organisations and communities. She specialises in community-led development that is collaborative and strengths based.

She also works with business who want to improve cultural competency and staff wellbeing through engagement in bespoke Social Change workshops and Programmes.  Having worked in areas of Corporate Social Responsibility as well as the Community and Social Sectors for two decades, Tessa understands how to support businesses to increase Social Value and maximise Social Impact.

A clinical background in Homeopathy together with BA in Social Policy and Post Grad Certificate in Professional Supervision (Social Work and Counseling), Tessa brings a wide perspective to her provision of Supervision for Social Workers and Complementary Health Practitioners who practice holistically with acknowledgement of wairua and mauri.

Natural Assets operates as a social business incorporating pro-bono, pay it forward, and community exchange in addition to paid services.  Tessa has held voluntary positions and contributed to community projects for most of her working life, including NGO governance positions (recently: SociaLink Tauranga Moana, Mauri Tau Mauri Ora – Rotorua). She also actively supports Community-led initiatives and currently co-coordinates the ‘Opuawhanga Community Resilience Network’ near Whangārei focussing on enhancing community connectedness, resilience and capacity building.

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Utilise your Natural Assets to Change for Good

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My life has changed hugely for the better since meeting Tessa.

She has a way of helping you unearth your potential and drilling down and extracting out the essence, the honey, the untapped you without getting in the way and without you even realising it.

Her unassuming professional manner of helping you look at life and approaching each challenge is immense. Her ability and natural instinct to see all points of view from all angles that gives you the choice of then choosing your pathway is uncanny.

Trust, and integrity walk hand in hand. Both of these she models.

My dreams, and my business ideas have been realised thanks to Tessa.

Working with her on several community projects has taught me the fine art of collaboration without intrusion, respecting all view points.

Her greatest gift she has imparted to me has been ” to always work to the higher good”

That is gold and that is Mana.

David Teata Aupapa.    2017

David Aupapa – Coconut Grove Music

“I trust Tessa, I value her opinion and I have no question about her integrity… I would highly recommend her… for all of the above and for her skill of getting to the point, getting to the core of what needs to be done. In a team situation, she is a brilliant facilitator… Tessa always manages to facilitate respectfully whilst bringing things out of people and getting them to talk – she creates a safe environment for people to do that and encourages a holistic approach, thinking outside of the square to get the best outcomes”    2007

Ali Kemp, Te Korowai Hauora o Hauraki – Kaupapa Maori Mental Health Services