Wayne Visser
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    Pracademic · Poet · Possibilist

    Library of publications and media — Engage with your mind. Engage with your heart.

    A repository of knowledge about transforming systems, leadership, business and technology, and a treasury of poetry and art to catalyse reflection and inspiration.

    Technologies of Hope: An Earth-Saving Mission — book cover
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    Technologies of Hope

    An Earth-Saving Mission

    Routledge · 2026

    Thriving: The Breakthrough Movement to Regenerate Nature, Society and the Economy — book cover
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    Thriving

    The Breakthrough Movement to Regenerate Nature, Society and the Economy

    Fast Company Press · 2022

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    All 46 books — 2002 to 2026

    Technologies of Hope: An Earth-Saving Mission — book coverKeys to the Maze: Poems for Purposeful Living — book coverChange the World: Poems for Positive Action — book coverEveryday Inspiration: Philosophy for Daily Living — book coverThriving: The Breakthrough Movement to Regenerate Nature, Society and the Economy — book coverPurpose Inspired: Reflections on Conscious Living – Volume 5 — book coverPurpose Inspired: Reflections on Conscious Living – Volume 4 — book coverPurpose Inspired: Reflections on Conscious Living – Volume 2 — book coverPurpose Inspired: Reflections on Conscious Living – Volume 3 — book coverGlobal Leadership Skills Workbook — book coverFollow Me (I'm Lost): The Tale of an Unexpected Leader — book coverPurpose Inspired: Reflections on Conscious Living – Volume 1 — book coverThe Little Book of Quotations on Transformational Change — book coverThe Little Book of Quotations on Sustainable Business — book coverThe Poetry of Business: A CEO's Quest for Meaning — book coverThe World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise: Volume 1 (Africa & Middle East) — book coverThe World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise: Volume 2 (Asia Pacific) — book coverThe World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise: Volume 3 (Europe) — book coverThe World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise: Volume 4 (Americas) — book coverThe Little Book of Quotations on Social Responsibility — book coverThe CSR International Research Compendium: Volume 1 (Governance) — book coverThe CSR International Research Compendium: Volume 2 (Environment) — book coverThe CSR International Research Compendium: Volume 3 (Society) — book coverSustainable Frontiers: Unlocking Change through Business, Leadership and Innovation — book coverThis is Tomorrow: Artists for a Sustainable Future — book coverDisrupting the Future: Great Ideas for Creating a Much Better World — book coverLife in Transit: Favourite Travel & Tribute Poems — book coverCSR 2.0: Transforming Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility — book coverIcarus: Favourite Love Poems — book coverCorporate Sustainability & Responsibility: An Introductory Text on CSR Theory & Practice — book coverThe Quest for Sustainable Business: An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility — book coverString, Donuts, Bubbles and Me: Favourite Philosophical Poems — book coverAfrican Dream: Inspiring Words & Images from the Luminous Continent — book coverThe Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business — book coverSeize the Day: Favourite Inspirational Poems — book coverThe World Guide to CSR: A Country by Country Analysis of Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility — book coverWishing Leaves: Favourite Nature Poems — book coverLandmarks for Sustainability: Events and Initiatives that Changed Our World — book coverThe Top 50 Sustainability Books — book coverMaking A Difference: Purpose-Inspired Leadership for Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility — book coverI Am An African: Favourite Africa Poems — book coverThe A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Complete Reference Guide to Concepts, Codes and Organisations — book coverCorporate Citizenship in Africa: Lessons from the Past, Paths to the Future — book coverBusiness Frontiers: Social Responsibility, Sustainable Development and Economic Justice — book coverSouth Africa: Reasons to Believe — book coverBeyond Reasonable Greed: Why Sustainable Business is a Much Better Idea — book cover
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    Everyday Inspiration

    2023 · Kaleidoscope Futures

    Philosophy for daily living — bite-size reflections on art, ageing, love and loss.

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    Climate Adaptation in Action: Lessons from an American Community (Spokane, WA)

    Nov 2026 · Católica Porto School of Business and Economics

    A Católica Centre for Thriving Futures webinar for UCP Sustainability Week, in which Wayne hosts Brian G. Henning of Gonzaga University on climate adaptation in Spokane, Washington.

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    Eye Study

    2025 · Pencil

    A study in observation — the eye as window and as witness.

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    Purpose Inspired: Reflections on Conscious Living – Volume 1

    2019 · Kaleidoscope Futures

    The first volume of Purpose Inspired, a collection of 100-word daily micro-essays on conscious living and how it applies to business and everyday life…

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    Closing the loop on steel: what we can learn from a manufacturer in Ecuador

    Nov 2014 · The Guardian

    The Guardian, 20 November 2014…

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    Purpose Inspired

    By Wayne Visser

    Conversations with change-makers on purpose, leadership and building a better world through business…

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    CSR 2.0: The Future of CSR

    Wayne Visser · 8 parts · 48m

    An eight-part lecture on why CSR 1.0 failed and what transformative CSR 2.0 looks like…

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    Artwork of the Day

    Upside-Down Creature

    2008 · Ink

    Original artwork by Wayne Visser…

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    Reflection of the Day

    Atlantis

    Reflections

    When I was in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean (Ponta Delgada on São Miguel Island in the Azores archipelago), my mind drifted to the…

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    Diary of the Day

    Uganda, 2022

    2022 · Travel Diaries

    Day 1. 5.30 am start. We drove to Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary and went on a one-hour walking safari to track the rhinos. We were lucky…

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    Thriving

    2022 · Fast Company Press

    The breakthrough movement to regenerate nature, society and the economy.

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    “The leader as astronaut, artist, alchemist and athlete.”

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    Integrated Leadership

    Jul 2017 · HuffPost

    Four archetypes for leading in a complex, changing world.

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    Dancing With Systems

    Living the art of systems change

    Exploring the practice of systems thinking and how to move gracefully with complexity, transformation and change.

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    Wayne Discusses Thriving
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    Wayne Discusses Thriving

    1:22 · Book intro

    A short introduction to the Thriving movement.

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    “Let's change the world, let's shift it Let's shake and remake it”

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    Change the World

    Signature reflection

    A quiet manifesto — change as the patient pull of the sea.

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    I Am An African
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    I Am An African

    2012 · Acrylic on canvas

    A textured tribute — the painted companion to the signature poem.

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