Wayne Visser

Wayne Visser is a writer, speaker, film producer, academic, editor of poetry, social entrepreneur and futurist focused on sustainable development, corporate social responsibility and creating integrated value.

Wayne Visser
Born	Wayne Visser (1970-12-17) 17 December 1970 (age 53) Bulawayo, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)
Scientific career
Fields	Sustainability corporate social responsibility sustainable development futures studies

Biography

Wayne Visser was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, raised in Cape Town, South Africa and now lives in London, United Kingdom. Wayne Visser completed his high school at Fairbairn College in 1987 and went on to study marketing and economics as part of a Business Science Honours degree at the University of Cape Town. In 1996, he studied at the Centre for Human Ecology in Glasgow, where he obtained an MSc with special commendation.

Visser's early career was spent as a management consultant, first as a strategy analyst for Capgemini and then as director of sustainability services for KPMG in South Africa. In 1995, he established a Johannesburg chapter of The World Business Academy and in 1997, he co-founded the South African New Economics Foundation. In 2007, he qualified with a PhD in business and management from the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at Nottingham University Business School, where he researched what motivates of sustainability managers, using existential psychology as his lens of analysis. In 2008, he set up the research sharing platform CSR International and in 2012 started the think tank and media company Kaleidoscope Futures.

As of February 2020^[update] he is professor of integrated value and holder of the chair in sustainable transformation at Antwerp Management School.^[1] He is a fellow and former research director at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership^[2] and visiting professor at the Gordon Institute of Business Science.

Recognition

The Fast Company business magazine claims that "anyone interested in CSR will eventually come across Wayne Visser. He is very active in the field, and offers a unique and candid voice on the topic".^[3] CSRWire USA calls him "one of the most prolific, creative and original thought leaders on CSR and author/editor of books on the subject".^[4]

• Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior (2013), ranking by Excellence and Trust Across America^[5]
• Top 100 Global Sustain Ability Leaders (2011 & 2012), rankings by ABC Carbon^[6][7]
• Top 100 Thought Leaders in Europe & the Middle East (2011), ranking by Centre for Sustainability & Excellence and Trust Across America^[8]
• Top 100 CSR Leaders (2009) and Top 20 Sustainability Leaders (2012), rankings by CSR International^[9]
• Global CSR Excellence & Leadership Award (2013), awarded by the World CSR Congress^[10]
• Outstanding Author Contribution Award at the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence (2011)^[11]
• Outstanding Teacher Award of The Warwick Business School MBA (2010/11 and 2011/12) and Masters in Management (2011/12).

Integrated Value

Visser's research and writing proposes going beyond creating shared value and corporate social responsibility to thriving and the creation of Integrated Value.^[12] He promotes sustainable enterprise and the idea of CSR as "corporate sustainability and responsibility" and calls for an evolution from CSR 1.0 to CSR 2.0.^[13] His theory of CSR 2.0 characterises CSR maturity in five stages, from defensive, charitable, promotional and strategic CSR (all labelled CSR 1.0) to systemic or transformative CSR (called CSR 2.0).^[14] He identifies three failures of CSR 1.0: its incremental nature, its peripheral function in most companies, and the "inconvenient truth" that CSR is generally "uneconomic": it is more often a business cost than a source of value.^[15] He goes on to outline five principles of CSR 2.0 (creativity, scalability, responsiveness, glocality,^[a] and circularity)^[16] and four DNA elements of CSR 2.0 (value creation, good governance, societal contribution and environmental integrity).^[17]

The CSR 2.0 theory is summarised in his books, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business (2011),^[18] and CSR 2.0: Transforming Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility (2014).^[19]

Publications

Wayne Visser has written and edited 41 books and published more than 320 chapters and articles. He writes a regular column on international sustainable business for the HuffPost website,^[20] and The Guardian UK newspaper.^[21] His book, Beyond Reasonable Greed, was made into a film called Lessons From The Wild: Leadership – Tusks or Fangs.^[22] His poem "I Am An African",^[23] from his anthology of the same name,^[24] was the basis for a dance theatre production at South Africa's 2012 National Arts Festival in Grahamstown.^[25] and an inspiration behind Heleen du Plessis's Cello for Africa CD ^[26]

Business and sustainability

• Thriving: The Breakthrough Movement to Regenerate Nature Society, and the Economy, New York: Fast Company Press, 2022.
• The Little Book of Quotations on Sustainable Business, London: Kaleidoscope Futures, 2017.^[27]
• The Little Book of Quotations on Social Responsibility, London: Kaleidoscope Futures, 2016.^[28]
• The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise: Volumes 1–4, Sheffield: Greenleaf, 2016.^[29]
• Sustainable Frontiers: Unlocking Change Through Business, Leadership and Innovation, Sheffield: Greenleaf, 2015.^[30]
• The CSR International Research Compendium: Volume 1 (Governance), Volume 2 (Environment) and Volume 3 (Society), London: Kaleidoscope Futures, 2015.^[31]
• Disrupting the Future: Great Ideas for Creating a Much Better World, London: Kaleidoscope Futures, 2014.^[32]
• CSR 2.0: Transforming Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility, London: Springer, 2013.^[33]
• The Quest for Sustainable Business: An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility, Sheffield: Greenleaf, 2012.^[34]
• Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility: An Introductory Text on CSR Theory & Practice – Past, Present & Future, London: Kaleidoscope Futures, 2012.^[35]
• The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business, London: Wiley, 2011.^[36]
• The World Guide to CSR: A Country by Country Analysis of Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility, with N. Tolhurst. Sheffield: Greenleaf, 2010.^[37]
• The Top 50 Sustainability Books, with CPSL. Sheffield: Greenleaf, 2009.^[38]
• Landmarks for Sustainability: Events and Initiatives that Changed Our World, with CPSL. Sheffield: Greenleaf, 2009.^[39]
• Making A Difference: Purpose-Inspired Leadership for Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility, Saarbrücken: VDM, 2008.^[40]
• The A to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility: A Complete Reference Guide to Concepts, Codes and Organisations, with D. Matten, Manfred Pohl & N. Tolhurst. London: Wiley, 2007.^[41]
• Corporate Citizenship in Africa: Lessons from the Past, Paths to the Future, with M. McIntosh & C. Middleton. Sheffield: Greenleaf, 2006.^[42]
• Business Frontiers: Social Responsibility, Sustainable Development and Economic Justice, Hyderabad: ICFAI University Press, 2005.^[43]
• South Africa: Reasons to Believe, with G. Lundy. Cape Town: Aardvark Press, 2003.^[44]
• Beyond Reasonable Greed: Why Sustainable Business is a Much Better Idea, with C. Sunter. Cape Town: Tafelberg Human & Rousseau, 2002.^[45]

Poetry

• I Am An African: Favourite Africa Poems, 5th ed., Kaleidoscope Futures, 2017.^[46]
• Life in Transit: Favourite Travel & Tribute Poems, 2nd ed., Kaleidoscope Futures, 2017.^[47]
• Icarus: Favourite Love Poems, 2nd ed., Kaleidoscope Futures, 2017.^[48]
• This is Tomorrow: Artists for a Sustainable Future, with A. Ardakani, 1st ed., Blurb, 2015.^[49]
• African Dream: Inspirational Words & Images from the Luminous Continent, with B. Webzell, 1st ed., Blurb, 2012.^[50]
• String, Donuts, Bubbles and Me: Favourite Philosophical Poems, 2nd ed., Lulu, 2017.^[51]
• Seize the Day: Favourite Inspirational Poems, 3rd ed., Kaleidoscope Futures, 2017.^[52]
• Wishing Leaves: Favourite Nature Poems, 3rd ed., Kaleidoscope Futures, 2017.^[53]

Films

Visser was a producer on the 2015 climate change documentary Sinking Nation,^[54] along with Emmy Award-winning director, Graham Sheldon.^[55] In 2016/17, they collaborated again on a documentary film on the circular economy called Closing the Loop.

Notes

1. Combining the perspectives of global thought and local action

References

1. Antwerp Management School, Meet Prof. Dr. Wayne Visser, accessed 15 February 2020
2. "Dr Wayne Visser, Fellow — Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership". www.cisl.cam.ac.uk. 5 November 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
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11. "EmeraldInsight". www.emeraldinsight.com. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
12. Wayne, Visser; Chad, Kymal (1 January 2015). "Integrated Value Creation (IVC): Beyond Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Creating Shared Value (CSV)". Journal of International Business Ethics. 8 (1).
13. Visser, Wayne (1 October 2010). "The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business". Journal of Business Systems, Governance and Ethics. 5 (3). Rochester, NY: 7. doi:10.15209/jbsge.v5i3.185. SSRN 1725159.
14. Visser, Wayne (1 January 2010). "CSR 2.0: From the age of greed to the age of responsibility". Reframing Corporate Social Responsibility: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis. Critical Studies on Corporate Responsibility, Governance and Sustainability. Vol. 1. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. pp. 231–251. doi:10.1108/S2043-9059(2010)0000001016. ISBN 978-0-85724-455-0.
15. See also Visser, W., The Rise and Fall of CSR: Three Curses of CSR 1.0 and Five Principles of CSR 2.0, CSR International Inspiration Series, No. 7, 2010 , accessed 23 October 2023
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18. "The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business".
19. Visser, Wayne (2014). CSR 2.0: Transforming Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility. SpringerBriefs in Business. SpringerBriefs in Business. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40874-8. ISBN 978-3-642-40874-8.
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24. Visser, Wayne (16 November 2011). I Am An African: Favourite Africa Poems (3rd ed.). Wayne Visser.
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26. "Cello for Africa by Heleen du Plessis, Magda de Vries, Malcolm Nay, Hans Huyssen & Odeion School of Music Camerata". iTunes. 18 October 2013.
27. "Books | Wayne Visser | Wayne Visser". waynevisser.com. 30 March 2012. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
28. Visser, Wayne (11 April 2017). The Little Book of Quotations on Social Responsibility (1st ed.). Kaleidoscope Futures. ASIN B06ZZR3GKK.
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33. Visser, Wayne (2014). CSR 2.0. SpringerBriefs in Business. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40874-8. ISBN 978-3-642-40873-1.
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35. Visser, Wayne (14 May 2012). Corporate Sustainability & Responsibility: An Introductory Text on CSR Theory & Practice – Past, Present & Future. Kaleidoscope Futures Ltd. ASIN B0083JR6N4.
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40. Visser, Wayne (3 September 2008). Making a Difference. Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller e.K. ISBN 9783639071887.
41. "The a to Z of Corporate Social Responsibility, 2nd, Revised and Updated Edition".
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43. Visser, Wayne (21 January 2006). Business Frontiers: Social Responsibility, Sustainable Development and Economic Justice. DGM Icfai Books. ISBN 9788131417263.
44. Lundy, Guy; Visser, Wayne (January 2003). South Africa: Reasons to Believe! (1st ed.). Cape Town: Aardvark Press. ISBN 9780958456418.
45. Sunter, Clem; Visser, Wayne (2002). Beyond Reasonable Greed (1st ed.). Cape Town; London: Human & Rousseau Tafelberg. ISBN 9780798142694.
46. I Am An African: Favourite Africa Poems - Kindle edition by Wayne Visser. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. Kaleidoscope Futures. 4 April 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2018 – via www.amazon.com.
47. Life in Transit: Favourite Travel & Tribute Poems - Kindle edition by Wayne Visser. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. Kaleidoscope Futures. 4 April 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2018 – via www.amazon.com.
48. Amazon.com: Icarus: Favourite Love Poems eBook: Wayne Visser: Kindle Store. Kaleidoscope Futures. 4 April 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2018 – via www.amazon.com.
49. This Is Tomorrow: Artists for a Sustainable Future. 19 June 2015.
50. Wayne Visser (28 November 2012). African Dream (Deluxe Edition): Inspiring Words & Images from the Luminous Continent. Blurb, Incorporated. ISBN 9781320674089.
51. String, Donuts, Bubbles and Me: Favourite Philosophical Poems - Kindle edition by Wayne Visser. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. Kaleidoscope Futures. 4 April 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2018 – via www.amazon.com.
52. Seize the Day: Favourite Inspirational Poems - Kindle edition by Wayne Visser. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. Kaleidoscope Futures. 4 April 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2018 – via www.amazon.com.
53. Amazon.com: Wishing Leaves: Favourite Nature Poems eBook: Wayne Visser: Kindle Store. Kaleidoscope Futures. 4 April 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2018 – via www.amazon.com.
54. "Wayne Visser". IMDb. Retrieved 8 January 2018.
55. "Blog | Zacuto USA". Zacuto USA. Retrieved 8 January 2018.

External links

• Wayne Visser's official website

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