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
Vision
Be the leading strategic partner unlocking the true potential of organisations to grow infinitely in a finite world.
Mission
Mission
Helping organisations to enable continual growth, operating responsibly and competitively.
Core Values
- Rethink and create new goals – Aim for responsible regeneration
- Upskill, cross skill and reskill – Professional and personal development for a new era
- Win collectively and together – Collaborate to co-design and co-create
- Achieve synergy through change – Reach new levels of performance and productivity
- Derive benefits to society –Uplift social and environmental standards
- • Rethink to create a new vision – Target responsible regeneration and improved value creation
- • Reskill to create readiness – Upskill and cross skill to match the development needs of a new era
- • Recreate to win collectively and together - Collaborate to co-design and co-create
- • Redesign to create value differently - Reach new levels of performance and productivity through new business models
- • Renew relationships to share and create harmony - Contribute to uplift social and environmental standards through regenerative consumption and equitable distribution
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.
- We assess where you are currently in your journey.
- We envision the transformation journey for your organisation towards a model aligned with a circular economy.
- We propose different strategic options, evaluate and recommend course of action – encompassing products, markets, supply chains and business models.
- We help implementation, knowledge transfer and change management.
- 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
Dr Mayuri Wijayasundara
Founder & Director of Anvarta
Dr. Mayuri is a leading expert in enablers of a circular economy and strategies towards transition, for public sector, industry, businesses and markets. She specializes in this domain with a wealth of experience spanning over 20 years as a business/industry practitioner, scholar and an advisor, with hands-on work in manufacturing, resource recovery, construction and building materials sectors.
As a practitioner, she held roles and led programs in strategic planning, business process and systems development, and supply chain management across diverse business landscapes, both within Australia and abroad. Following a relevant PhD, she held a tenured academic position at Deakin university, where she led multiple and diverse research programs focused on the circular economy until 2021. Her contributions to the field extend to authoring numerous research articles and book chapters and contributing to acclaimed international forums, such as the World Economic Forum.
Extending her professional expertise in circular economy, she serves a few boards in an advisory capacity. She is a member of the ministerial advisory committee of Recycling Victoria, executive board member of the Global Product Stewardship Council, and an advisory committee member of Australia New Zealand Biochar Industry Group. She was also engaged as Circular Economy Expert at UN Habitat.
Mayuri has a passion for travel and cooking, and enjoys translating her thoughts to paper.
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:
Our TEAM and collaborators
Dr Sebastian Thomas
Expert in climate change mitigation and adaptation and blue carbon He is also the founder and director of Blue praxis capital
Srikanth Prakash
Expert in value chain and market modelling of products and materials. Delivered projects in de-risking recovered resource value chains and modelling of market instruments.
Tim Grant
Expert in environmental decision making, life cycle thinking and life cycle assessment.
He is also the founder and director of Lifecycles
Lakmini Edirisighe
Expert in business models for a circular economy and resource efficient cleaner production. Delivered international projects in chemical leasing, green chemistry and industrial ecology
Victoria Lamb
Expert in environmental and energy related process improvements.
She is also the founder and director of Nicholson Environmental Ltd.
Nisansala Ranundeniya
Expert in material flow analysis. Delivered projects in de-risking resource recovery value chains and modelling market instruments
Testing and Integrating Alternatives
- Product reengineering
- Customer value reengineering
- Strategic market mapping
- Supply chain modelling for de-risking
- Buyer behavior analysis
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:
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 (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.
