Wayfinding for meaningful work, conscious leadership, and aligned growth
Strategy, Direction & Wellbeing
Drawing from two decades of multidisciplinary practice, we help people, teams, and purpose-led organisations navigate growth, change, and meaningful direction through a blend of strategy, wellbeing, and conscious leadership.
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ASTERA brings together two decades across games, technology, sustainability, leadership, contemplative practice, and cultural change.
It is a multidisciplinary practice helping people, projects and organisations become more coherent — aligning purpose, strategy, culture and action.
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We combine reflective practice with strategic thinking — purpose, presence and business needs.
When familiar ways of working no longer fit, ASTERA helps turn complexity into clarity and intention into action.
This might mean shaping a product launch, designing a culture programme, developing a sustainability initiative, mentoring a founder, or creating space for reflection and renewal in nature.
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From game studios and purpose-led organisations to founders, creatives, and individuals navigating a transition, we work with clients looking for more aligned, sustainable and human ways to live, work, create, and lead.
We often work with:
creatives and founders navigating transitions
teams and organisations seeking greater alignment between business objectives and values
purpose-led projects, products and communities
people exploring meaningful work and new directions
Our ethos
ASTERA emerged from a career spanning technology, creativity, sustainability, wellbeing, and culture.
Valentina’s approach is rooted in wayfinding, bringing together strategic thinking, systems awareness, contemplative practice and holistic wellbeing.
Through work ranging from global game franchises and sustainability initiatives to contemplative practice and international communities, Valentina became increasingly interested in what helps people, organisations, and communities flourish. That ongoing exploration continues to shape the experiences, conversations, and initiatives that ASTERA brings into the world.
This is where more coherent, sustainable, and meaningful ways of moving forward can emerge.
Bringing Ideas Into Practice
We design workshops.
We facilitate conversations.
We mentor founders.
We create experiences in nature.
We support culture and impact initiatives.
The ways in which we can support you are broadly divided into:
Experiences & Workshops
Retreats, facilitated sessions, and immersive spaces for teams, organisations, and conscious gatherings
Speaking & Presence
Keynotes, talks, and panel contributions for conferences, festivals, and events.
Strategic & Advisory
Direction, positioning, and consultancy for purpose-led organisations at a genuine inflection point.
The work is:
Slow and reflective, yet strategically grounded
Rooted in contemplative practice, wellbeing, and lived leadership experience
Informed by systems thinking, positioning, and decision‑making
Adapted to people, products, and organisations — not a fixed method
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