Company Info for generalist.world | IcebreakerMembers
Kia ora, I’m Milly, and I’m an early person.
Always to my departing train, often to trends, and usually to companies. I’ve worn both the ‘founder’ hat and ‘early employee’ hat, having spent 15years carving out a career on my terms. One that looks weird on a CV but feels great on the inside.
You see, I'm a farm-gal from small-town New Zealand who decided milking cows wasn't the vibe long-term. So since 2012 I've been slowly exploring 65+ countries; leading a weird AF squiggly career path & teaching myself how to build a business on a shoestring.
Before I turned 30, I co-owned a hostel in Thailand, co-founded a wine tour in Australia, and launched an illustration agency in the UK.
Today you'll find me on a remote Scottish island, where I'm building Generalist World.
Why?
Because we all get ~2000 Tuesdays in our career.
I believe we should spend these doing the work that energizes us & creates the most positive impact (not adhering to a traditional, linear path).
Day to day, I help generalists understand & leverage their unique skills & strengths to create value in the world.
I'll help you position yourself, translate your skills, double your confidence and your hourly rate 😉
Your cup of tea? Good news, you can work with me!
(sign up: www.generalist.world)
We also work with universities and companies via workshops, training & consulting.
I love collabs, community, & companies doing cool stuff to partner up with.
Follow along, + help amplify the Generalist World mission! 👋 I’m a multidisciplinary management consultant with 15 years of experience accelerating value creation through leading innovation initiatives.
As a partner to the C-suite in enabling global transformations and communicating complex change, I deliver clarity, future focus, strategic alignment, and sustainable, adaptable, & innovative solutions.
I leverage tech tools and soft skills to manage projects, lead change, strategize, deploy OKRs, integrate EOS, and more.
My point of view on work and the future is:
🧠 innovation & creativity is a form of risk mitigation
🩵 a people-first, hospitality-like mindset is #1 for differentiation
🎯 to thrive in a competitive marketplace requires Bold Thinking
My credentials include:
🏆 Prosci Certified Change Practitioner
🏆 Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP)
🏆 Project Management Professional (PMP)
🏆 Masters from Harvard in Sustainability & Corporate Innovation
A bit about me:
🏃♀️ Marathoner (12 and counting!) and sighted-guide for runners who are blind
🍷 Serious wine geek- WSET level 3 sommelier…ask me for recs anytime
🧩 Endlessly curious- I love learning and problem-solving 
Full stack award-winning international marketing leader with strategic and operational B2B expertise. Thriving in sharp learning curve environments, skilled at identifying and maximizing opportunities to deliver sustainable growth balancing firm objectives with customer satisfaction. What excites me the most is working with innovating products, diving into data, improving user experience across various touchpoints, and bringing creative campaigns to life while giving back recognition to everyone involved.
Some of my key accomplishments include:
- leading a marketing team after drastic layoff to deliver 4x more with 3x less people by implementing automation, processes, and dashboards and drastically improving cross-departmental communication, recognition and collaboration
- leading the international market entry of a European company in North America, growing revenue by $8Mio after only 1 year and partaking in local acquisition to support growth
- launching the first mobile app at a multi-billion utility provider (back when apps where still a novelty) to support customer care activities such as online payment and usage check.
Specialties: GTM (new products, features, pricing, use cases), Lead Generation, Growth, Digital Marketing, Cross-Functional Team Leadership, Marketing Strategy, Customer Discovery, Data Insights, and a great thirst to learn. 
