About Us

Anvarta is a Melbourne-based consultancy that provides strategy and policy advisory, consulting and project management services to organisations.

We specialise in enabling continual business growth, while maintaining a respectful relationship with the environment.

We provide expertise to transform products, markets, supply chains, business models inline with the principles of circular economy. Our focus is to help organisations have productivity gains and create competitive advantage, decoupling growth limited by the finiteness of resources.
Our experts and professionals are equipped with multi-disciplinary skills and are eager to make a unique difference in your organisation.

We have a network of experts to draw specialised knowledge related to specific materials, technologies and products to bring the best available knowledge to your doorstep.

Vision

Be the leading strategic partner unlocking the true potential of organisations to grow infinitely in a finite world.

Vision

Be the leading strategic partner unlocking the true potential of organisations to grow infinitely in a finite world.

Mission

Helping organisations to enable continual growth, operating responsibly and competitively.

Mission

Helping organisations to enable continual growth, operating responsibly and competitively.

Core Values

Principles that we promote in our solutions
integrated to circular economy thinking

Cradle to Cradle Thinking

Decarbonisation

Industrial ecology

Product stewardship

Cleaner production

Resource conservation

Why we do, what we do

We believe in a world where our economic activities help nature thrive, rather than hurt or deplete it.
We believe that leaving a better world for future generations is possible if we shift our thinking fundamentally and take steps to re-design and re-orient.

To enable organisations to transition to a circular economy, while achieving consistent and sustainable business growth, Anvarta helps develop and implement short and long-term strategies.

  1. We assess where you are currently in your journey.
  2. We envision the transformation journey for your organisation towards a model aligned with a circular economy.
  3. We propose different strategic options, evaluate and recommend course of action – encompassing products, markets, supply chains and business models.
  4. We help implementation, knowledge transfer and change management.
  5. We help you thrive in a competitive business world and reap your reward in the long-run.

Our Approach

Measure

We help you measure your current performance and the impact of your activities.

Re-think

We provide concepts to rethink your business, be it products, markets, processes or supply chains.

Re-design

We redesign the way things should be; inspiring positive change to take your organisation to the next level.

Re-Orient

We strategize different options to incorporate new changes to your business, evaluate them and orient information for decision making.

Re-engineer

We help execution and implementation through coaching, training and a range of other advisory and support services. 

Our specialized expert network

Mayuri Wijayasundara (PhD, CGMA)
Director - Anvarta

Mayuri is an expert in strategy, specializing in sustainable business practice and transition to a circular economy.

Mayuri has developed her expertise as a researcher and an industry practitioner.

She possesses over a decade of experience in manufacturing, resource recovery, and construction material industries, with 8+ years of senior managerial experience as a business leader, project manager, and consultant. She has led strategic planning, market and business process development, communications, supply chain management, and commercial services functions in diverse business environments in Australia and overseas.

Following her PhD, where she assessed an alternative that aligns with principles of circular economy, Mayuri entered an academic career in 2016.

As a researcher, Mayuri’s expertise is around the measurement of alternatives towards a circular economy for policy and business decision making using multi-criteria and integrated decision techniques and investigating enablers that increase the market competitiveness of such alternatives.

She is the author of several research publications resulting from her work and has shared her work in several conferences and forums. Leading her research group at Deakin University, Mayuri was a full-time academic till Dec 2021 and was the lead Deakin Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Transformation of Waste Resources into Engineered Materials and Solutions for a Circular Economy (TREMS). Mayuri is currently research-active through PhD supervision and as an investigator of TREMS.

Mayuri’s diverse exposure to business, problem-solving and analytical capability and specialized expertise developed as a researcher/academic investigating transition to a circular economy puts her in a unique spot as an expert to advise organizations in transforming their business practices towards a circular economy – aspiring to be more productive, value driven, environmentally respectful and resource conservation-focused.

Visit Mayuri’s website for more info.

Anvarta works with a growing number of partner organisations as well as experts in certain specialised areas to provide a complete solution to organisations in:

Developing Alternatives

  • Material redesign
  • Product redesign
  • Business model redesign

Operationalizing and Implementing Alternatives

  • Project management
  • Training and certifications

Evaluating alternatives

  • Life cycle assessment
  • Carbon footprint analysis
  • Financial modelling
  • Life cycle cost accounting
  • Cost-benefit analysis
  • Multi-criteria decision analysis
  • Choice modelling

Other

  • Communications and reporting
  • Education and skill development

Testing and Integrating Alternatives

  • Product reengineering
  • Customer value reengineering
  • Strategic market mapping
  • Supply chain modelling for de-risking
  • Buyer behavior analysis

Our Partner organizations

Mayuri Wijayasundara

Mayuri Wijayasundara (PhD, CGMA)
Director - Anvarta

Mayuri is an expert in strategy, specializing in sustainable business practice and transition to a circular economy.

Mayuri has developed her expertise as a researcher and an industry practitioner.

She possesses over a decade of experience in manufacturing, resource recovery, and construction material industries, with 8+ years of senior managerial experience as a business leader, project manager, and consultant. She has led strategic planning, market and business process development, communications, supply chain management, and commercial services functions in diverse business environments in Australia and overseas.

Following her PhD, where she assessed an alternative that aligns with principles of circular economy, Mayuri entered an academic career in 2016.

As a researcher, Mayuri’s expertise is around the measurement of alternatives towards a circular economy for policy and business decision making using multi-criteria and integrated decision techniques and investigating enablers that increase the market competitiveness of such alternatives.

She is the author of several research publications resulting from her work and has shared her work in several conferences and forums. Leading her research group at Deakin University, Mayuri was a full-time academic till Dec 2021 and was the lead Deakin Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Transformation of Waste Resources into Engineered Materials and Solutions for a Circular Economy (TREMS). Mayuri is currently research-active through PhD supervision and as an investigator of TREMS.

Mayuri’s diverse exposure to business, problem-solving and analytical capability and specialized expertise developed as a researcher/academic investigating transition to a circular economy puts her in a unique spot as an expert to advise organizations in transforming their business practices towards a circular economy – aspiring to be more productive, value driven, environmentally respectful and resource conservation-focused.

Visit Mayuri’s website for more info.

Anvarta works with a growing number of partner organisations as well as experts in certain specialised areas to provide a complete solution to organisations in: