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KNOWLEDGE PARTNERS

Knowledge Partners | Partner-Members | RSD Focus & Hubs
New South Wales, Australia

Snowmelt is a systemic design consultancy

Snowmelt is an RSD organising partner and convener known for guiding organizations through complexity with a balanced approach to intervention and support. Projects use systemic design as a bridge to flexible and adaptive methodologies that meet diverse needs and contexts. Through this approach, the team helps organisations define their systems, uncover opportunities, and focus on key activities by synthesising perspectives and data. Hallmarks of systemic design—visual tools and system mapping—are employed to translate complexity into actionable strategies that drive real solutions.

Collaboration is fundamental to the teams’ approach. Snowmelt facilitates inclusive, structured conversations to unite voices and perspectives. Capturing, refining, and testing ideas leads to strategic pathways, informed decision-making, and effective implementation. Beyond strategy, Snowmelt supports organisations in enacting change by fostering trust, momentum, and adaptability and helping teams build the capabilities, relationships, and practices needed for sustained transformation.

In 2024, Snowmelt won the Good Design Award, one of the highest design accolades available in Australia. More good news in the Snowmelt 2024 Year in Review.

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RSD14: ARCS OF IMPACT

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Kudos to the Snowmelt team for sparking an RSD14 Pacific Edition. This UTC+ time zone-friendly series starts on October 3/4 and runs through October 10/11. That’s evening for Americas East, mid-day for Americas West, and morning the next day for UTC+8 to UTC+11.

Time zones are a barrier in the online space that can be overcome by intentional programming. The RSD14-Pacific edition has been co-organised to do just that.

PACIFIC EDITION SESSIONS
Pacific Edition: October 4 to 11, 2025

Daily sessions

RSD14 was the first year with a dedicated Pacific programme that not only enabled conversation at a reasonable hour but also foregrounded regional voices, challenges, and practices. All sessions were online and scheduled to be accessible across the Pacific and into the Americas.

Thanks to the Snowmelt team—Chloé Oru, Tim Thompson, Leanne Sobel, and Murray Stubbs—along with Australian presenters Louise Gallagher, Seanna Davidson, Dana Shen, and Claudia Westermann. Tony Fry from Tasmania led a framing conversation with Dulmini Perera from the Americas, and west-coasters Harold Nelson and Lewis Muirhead also presented in the Pacific time zone.

Systems Thinking Ontario’s monthly meetup was accessible too. RSD14-Toronto co-chair Greg Van Alstyne gave a talk on sLab, and David Ing, Zaid Khan, and Samah Kamalmaz presented papers.

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Snowmelt partners with organisations and communities on their greatest challenges. Together, we build the capabilities, relationships, and practices needed to start and sustain change. Photo (from left): Murray Stubbs, Emily Choi, Leanne Sobel, and Tim Tompson.

CONTACT

Murray Stubbs
Founder and Principal

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Snowmelt Case Studies

The Argidius Foundation: Catalysing new donor practices to create long-term impact

HealthMatch: Accelerating diverse, equitable and inclusive clinical trial participation

Foundation & Friends: Growing the support of Sydney’s most iconic gardens

Snowmelt articles

Stirring the Sediment: The material practices of systemic design

Stirring the Sediment: The material practices of systemic design

Chloé Oru: I considered that the river, as a natural system, offers an easy-to-grasp perspective to explore the definition of materiality and systemic outcomes, to explain the power of systemic design in practice, and to explain its strategic potential to support organisational change and fluxes in navigating complexity.

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