Welcome to The Distillery! We operate as a collective: a networked of talented and experienced people that have both the nous & knowledge to help you in meaningful ways.

Founder Mark Buntzen is an experienced strategist and facilitator with a background in business strategy consulting, industrial design, and science. He focuses on research-led strategy, innovation, and futures & foresight work to help clients create–and realise–better futures. In service of this work, Mark often develops and facilitates engaging, challenging workshops that use structured creativity and problem solving techniques to help people develop smart solutions to their business challenges. 

Mark is a certified Lego Serious Play Facilitator, MBiT Practitioner, and NLP Practitioner–and is active in the design thinking and service design community in New Zealand. He has trained in futures & foresight with the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, Sohail Inayatullah and Richard Burke at Melbourne Business School, and SOIF in the UK.

Mark has previously worked as a Design Coach with NZTE's Better by Design Programme and served as a board member with the Designers Institute of New Zealand.