Connecting the Dots Between People, Planet & Purpose

Wayne's journey began in South Africa, where he spent his early career at the sharp end of business — as Strategy Analyst at Capgemini and Director of Sustainability Services at KPMG. It was there he developed a conviction that business could be a genuine force for good: not as a side project, but at the core of how organisations create value.

That conviction has shaped everything since. He founded CSR International, built the thinktank and media company Kaleidoscope Futures, and went on to hold faculty roles at some of the world's leading business schools — including the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, where he is Head Program Instructor and Lecturer, and Católica Porto School of Business and Economics, where he holds the GALP Chair as Professor of Practice in Regenerative Business, Innovation and Technology and directs the Católica Centre for Thriving Futures. Across three decades, 46 books and 60 countries, one question has driven his work: what would it take to build a world that doesn't just sustain itself, but genuinely thrives?