Thriving: The Breakthrough Movement
Join me, Prof Wayne Visser, for inspiring conversations with leaders in the breakthrough movement to regenerate nature, society and the economy. Thriving is about going beyond sustainability to a net positive agenda of innovation and regeneration. Each episode is a dialogue with thought leaders and pioneering practitioners, capturing their perspective on the six great transitions to thriving: how to go from degradation to restoration of ecosystems, from depletion to renewal of resources, from disparity to responsibility in communities and workplaces, from disease to revitalisation of health, from disconnection to rewiring through technology, and from disruption to resilience in infrastructure and institutions. We also explore what kind of leadership are needed to create a thriving future, and how organisations can take action to integrate thriving into their strategies, products and services. This is not about false hope or blind optimism, but we actively focus on innovative solutions and positive tipping points for change. The podcast builds on the foundations of my bestselling book "Thriving: The Breakthrough Movement to Regenerate Nature, Society and the Economy." I look forward to having you join the movement for thriving and welcome your suggestions for who I should feature as invited guests on the podcast. Credits: Host: Wayne Visser. Podcast music: Amil Raja
Episodes
46 episodes
45. A Systems View of Life, with Fritjof Capra
My guest this week is Fritjof Capra, living systems theorist and bestselling author of The Systems View of Life. He discusses how:Systems thinking represents a shift from a mechanistic to an organic or network worldviewComp...
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44. Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution, with Sarah Langford
My guest this week is Sarah Langford, author of Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution. She discusses how:The UK’s policy of “public money for public good” is helping farmers to reclaim their role as stewards of the ...
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43. The Purpose of Capital and the Nature of Value, with Jed Emerson
My guest this week is Jed Emerson, Chief Impact Officer, AlTi Tiedemann Global and author of The Purpose of Capital. He discusses how:Impact investing, social return on investment, venture philanthropy, and blended value are related...
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34:44
42. Women Creating Social Impact for a Better World, with Robbin Jorgensen
My guest this week is Robbin Jorgensen, Founder and CEO of Women Igniting Change. She discusses how:“Listening tours” in Rwanda reveal inspiring women with resilience, innovation and creativityWe need to work with men and c...
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41. Doughnut Economics for Business, with Erinch Sahan
My guest this week is Erinch Sahan, Business & Enterprise Lead at Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL). In this episode, he discusses how: Incentives in business are working against planetary boundaries and social foundatio...
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40. For the Love of Soil, with Nicole Masters
My guest this week is Nicole Masters, Director of Integrity Soils and author of For the Love of Soil. In this episode, she discusses how: Farmers feel connected to the land, yet are destroying the living soil“Feeding t...
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39. How Regeneration Shifts us from being Apart From Nature to being A Part Of Nature, with David Harland
My guest this week is David Harland, until recently the CEO (International) of the Eden Project, with its two biomes with a million plants and the world’s largest indoor rainforest. In this episode, he discusses how:The Eden Project...
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31:46
38. Invoking the Spirit of the Salmon to Tackle Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, with Tamara Makoni
My guest this week is Tamara Makoni, Founder and CEO of Kazuri Consulting. In this episode, she discusses how: Equality and equity are different – and why equity is more important for creating fair outcomesDiscriminati...
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Episode 38
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31:06
37. Regenerative Agriculture Doesn’t Work Without Mutual Accountability, with Aneel Kumar Ambavaram
My guest this week is Aneel Kumar Ambavaram is the Founder Director of the Raddis (Radically Disruptive) Cotton Program. In this episode, he discusses how: He made the transition from selling agricultural chemicals to leading r...
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35:53
36. Giving Diverse People a Seat at the Table is Not Enough, with Hanan Challouki
My guest this week is Hanan Challouki, the Founder of Inclusified. In this episode, she discusses why: Inclusion goes beyond having the right processes to having the right cultureListening is as important as giving peo...
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Episode 36
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31:21
35. A Better Everyday Life for the Many People, with Ludvig Liljekvist
My guest this week is Ludvig Liljekvist, Global Strategy, Development & Innovation Insight and Foresight leader for Ingka Group (largest IKEA retailer). In this episode, he discusses:What “positive” means in IKEA’s People and Pl...
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Episode 35
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35:28
34. Making Sustainability and Diversity Business-as-usual, with Audrey-Flore Ngomsik
My guest this week is Audrey-Flore Ngomsik, CEO & Co-Founder of Trianon Scientific Communication and President of The Brussels Binder. In this episode, she discusses how:A more complex and dynamic world makes diversity more nece...
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Episode 34
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32:44
33. Impact Investing, Hip Hop and the Black Opportunity, with Tino Chebebe
My guest this week is Tino Chibebe, author of The Black Opportunity, Founders’ Associate at Azteq and Investment Committee member at Impact Shakers Microfund. In this episode, he discusses how:Impact investing can make a critical di...
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Episode 33
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34:59
32. What Trees Can Tell Us About a Changing Climate, with Valérie Trouet
My guest this week is Valérie Trouet, a palaeoclimatologist, Professor of Dendrochronology at the University of Arizona and Scientific Director of the Belgian Climate Centre. In this episode, she discusses how:Studying tree rings ca...
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Episode 32
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32:34
31. Breakthroughs in Safe and Sustainable Data Storage, with Bhupinder Bhullar
My guest this week is Bhupinder Bhullar, CEO and Co-Founder of Swiss Vault. In this episode, he discusses how:Data storage represents around 4% of global carbon emissions and $66 billion of e-wasteEnergy footprints and cybe...
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Episode 31
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34:10
30. Developing the Heartset of Femininity, Family and Flexibility, with Nuria Chinchilla
My guest this week is Nuria Chinchilla, the IESE Business School Professor of Leadership and Head of the IESE Chair on Women in Leadership. In this episode, she discusses how:Waste and pollution occur not only in the natural environ...
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Episode 30
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30:59
29. Navigating the Nature Agenda, with Jason Walters
My guest this week is Jason Walters, Director of GlobeScan, who has overseen research among 11,000 people from 11 countries on biodiversity and business. In this episode he talks about:Why action on biodiversity is so far behind act...
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Episode 29
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34:21
28. Don't Be Mean to the Holocene, with Lucy Siegle
My guest this week is Lucy Siegle, a British journalist, broadcaster and author of books on ethical living, including most recently Be the Ultimate Friend of the Earth. In this episode, she talks about:What the role o...
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Episode 28
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32:59
27. Regeneration: Putting Life at the Centre of Everything, with Paul Hawken
My guest this week is Paul Hawken, environmentalist, entrepreneur, activist and author of the bestselling books The Ecology of Commerce, Drawdown and Regeneration. In this episode, he talks about: Why sustainability has become ...
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Episode 27
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57:52
26. The Yin and Yang of Inclusion and Innovation, with Francoise Chombar
My guest week is Francoise Chombar, Chairwoman at MELEXIS and STEM Platform, and board member at AMS and Umicore. In this episode, she talks about:How technology can be a force for positive impact, but only if it is inclusive – and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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32:30
25. The Factory as a Forest, with Jon Khoo
My guest week is Jon Khoo, Head of Sustainability (EAAA) at Interface. In this episode, he talks about:Why doing “less bad” is no longer a credible option and what becoming a restorative enterprise means in practice, in terms of amb...
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34:32
24. What’s Broken in our Food System, and How to Fix It, with Claudia Lee
My guest week is Claudia Lee, a journalist and podcaster on sustainable food systems. In this episode, she talks about:How the food system needs to navigate the challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, plastic an...
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Episode 24
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30:32
23. Pessimism is a Luxury We Can No Longer Afford, with Kumi Naidoo
My guest this week is Kumi Naidoo, Founding Chair at Africans Rising and former Secretary General at Amnesty International and Executive Director at Greenpeace. In this episode, he talks about why:Thriving requires a can-do attitude...
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Episode 23
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39:02
22. Exercising the Muscles of Sustainability, with Peggy Van Casteren
My guest this week is Peggy Van Casteren, Head of SDG & Community Impact at J&J Benelux. In this episode, she talks about how: Sustainability is like a set of muscles in business, which need to be connected, exercised a...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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33:23
21. Making Net Positive the New Norm, with Andrew Winston
My guest this week is Andrew Winston, co-author of Net Positive (with Paul Polman) and a globally recognized expert on megatrends and how to build companies that thrive by serving the world.How net positive – which means thriving by...
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Episode 21
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38:14