Purpose Inspired: by Wayne Visser

This episode describes what the author learned about business responsibility in Germany. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads the Chapter 5 from his book, The Quest for Sustainable Business: An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility. Chapter 7 is broken into the following sections:

- Proud pioneering traditions
- Achievements and challenges
- Sustainability is boring
- Limits to growth

This episode describes what the author learned about CSR in Europe, especially from a policy perspective. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads the Chapter 5 from his book, The Quest for Sustainable Business: An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility. Chapter 6 is broken into the following sections:

- Early policy developments 
- CSR trends in Europe
- European Union strategy on CSR

This episode describes what the author learned about business responsibility (and irresponsibility) in Nigeria. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads the Chapter 5 from his book, The Quest for Sustainable Business: An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility. Chapter 5 is broken into the following sections:

- Shell and the Ogoni
- Triple Bottom Line Challenges
- Sustainable Business Revival
- Legislating CSR
- Shine, Africa, Shine

This episode describes what the author learned about inclusive business and ethics challenges in Kenya. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads the Chapter 4 from his book, The Quest for Sustainable Business: An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility. Chapter 4 is broken into the following sections:

- Weep for Africa
- The Chinese in Africa
- Inclusive Business Strategies
- African Mutual Social Responsibility
- Responsible Flower Markets

This episode describes what the author learned from pioneering practices in corporate governance and black economic empowerment in South Africa. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads the Chapter 3 from his book, The Quest for Sustainable Business: An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility. Chapter 3 is broken into the following sections:

- Hunting the Dragon
- Expanding Directors’ Duties
- Power to the People
- Beyond Reasonable Greed

This episode describes how the author discovered the profound theory of systems thinking and set about establishing a movement for a just and sustainable economy in South Africa. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads the Chapter 2 from his book, The Quest for Sustainable Business: An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility. Chapter 2 is broken into the following sections:

- The whole is greater
- Fostering new economics
- Financial market reform
- The growth debate

This episode describes how the author went through a process of awakening to the social and ethical issues of discrimination that would shape his career in sustainable business. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads the Chapter 1 from his book, The Quest for Sustainable Business: An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility. Chapter 1 is broken into the following sections:

- Innocence lost
- Ethical investment roots
- Removing the blinkers
- Discovering sustainable development
- Starting to change course

This episode sets the context for the new season and explores how the author's roots in Africa have shaped his career and perspectives on sustainable business. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads the Prologue from his book, The Quest for Sustainable Business: An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility. The Prologue is broken into the following sections:

- A child of Africa
- Growing up wild
- Only elephants should wear ivory 
- The sixth mass extinction

This episode introduces the new season and explains how the author's quest for sustainable business took him to over 50 countries in the past 20 years.  In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads the Author's Introduction from his book, The Quest for Sustainable Business: An Epic Journey in Search of Corporate Responsibility. 

Part 3 of exploring how we as individual change agents can make a positive difference in society. In the podcast, Prof. Dr Wayne Visser reads Chapter 13 from his book, The Age of Responsibility: CSR 2.0 and the New DNA of Business. Part 3 is broken into the following sections:

- Reasons to be Optimistic
- To Hope is Human
- Experiments in Generosity
- Answering the Question ‘Why?’