Cambridge, UK
Co-creating a thriving future
Kaleidoscope Futures is a think-tank, education and media company founded in Cambridge, UK. We support organisations and individuals to be part of the breakthrough movement to regenerate nature, society and the economy.
About
Inform. Inspire. Impel.
Our work – including training, research, publications and documentary films – is led by our directors, Wayne Visser and Indira Kartallozi, together with associates. It has taken us to more than 80 countries, supporting hundreds of clients.
Inform
We inform why change is necessary and how it happens, countering despair and pessimism with hope and optimism.
Inspire
We inspire with what change is possible and where it is already happening, from breakdown to breakthrough solutions.
Impel
We impel turning information and inspiration into action, adding momentum to the growing regeneration movement.
We believe the future will be better than you think.
Thriving
The six great transitions
Based on Wayne Visser's international bestseller Thriving: The Breakthrough Movement to Regenerate Nature, Society and the Economy, our work shows how innovation can regenerate nature, society and the economy. It is not blind optimism about technology or miracle cures – it is an accessible approach to systems thinking and an offer of pragmatic hope based on purpose-driven creativity and innovation.
From
Degradation
To
Restoration
of ecosystems, through rewilding and regeneration
Building
Ecoservices economy
From
Depletion
To
Renewal
of resources, through biological and manufacturing cycles
Building
Circular economy
From
Disparity
To
Responsibility
in workplaces and communities, through diversity and inclusion
Building
Access economy
From
Disease
To
Revitalisation
of physical and mental health
Building
Wellbeing economy
From
Disconnection
To
Rewiring
of technologies that connect, empower and regenerate
Building
Digital economy
From
Disruption
To
Resilience
of infrastructure and institutions
Building
Risk economy
We also help organisations create integrated value using our integrated value management methodology.
Training
Training
Professional & organisational training
Tailored programmes for leadership teams, organisations and executive education, each built around a practical framework for change.
Rethinking AI
15 AI Development Goals
- Understand Impact AI and lessons from impact investing
- Assess the ESG risks and opportunities created by AI
Rethinking Change
12 strategies for system transformation
- Learn why most change efforts fail and what successful ones do differently
- Apply six principles of thriving systems
Rethinking Value
6 steps for rebuilding trust
- Trace the shift from shareholder returns to integrated value
- See why trust is a key competitive advantage
Rethinking Innovation
10 technologies for growing market opportunities
- Learn methods for breakthrough innovation in disrupted markets
- Identify the next wave of major technologies
Rethinking Leadership
6 habits for developing regenerative leaders
- Distinguish regenerative leaders from conventional high performers
- Discover your purpose-inspired leadership type and how to develop it
Rethinking Sustainability
6 transitions for creating thriving futures
- Understand why responsibility and sustainability alone are no longer enough
- Examine the forces reshaping nature, society and the economy, and business's role
Individual training: Thriving Facilitator Course
Small, interactive online cohorts co-facilitated by Wayne Visser and Indira Kartallozi, based on the book Thriving. Become an accredited practitioner of the Thriving methodology and its 36 elements.
Participants learn to:
- Explain the difference between thriving and other approaches
- Communicate the 6 scientific keys to thriving in complex living systems
- Explain the 6 great transitions to breakthrough innovation
- Make a business case for thriving strategies
- Apply the 6 steps of integrated value management
- Work with the 6 characteristics of regenerative leadership
- Use the Thriving Cards to facilitate workshops
Format
4 × 2.5-hour live online sessions (Zoom)
- 1Defining thriving & the 6 scientific keys
- 2Systems thinking & the 6 great transitions
- 3The business case & integrated value management
- 4Regenerative leadership
Takeaways
A set of Thriving Cards, licence to use 50+ Thriving graphic icons, an author-signed hardback of Thriving, and an e-certificate of accreditation from Kaleidoscope Futures.
Coaching
One-to-one impact coaching
Could you benefit from decades of experience at the forefront of sustainability? Our directors, Wayne Visser and Indira Kartallozi, each offer a limited number of one-to-one coaching packages for people on their impact journey — whether you're seeking a career in sustainability, weighing further study, writing a book or making a film, building a social enterprise, or trying to become a more effective change agent in your organisation.
3 × 60-minute online conversations
Who & where you are
Why & where you are going
How & when to get there
Your coach
Wayne Visser
Sustainability, regenerative business, innovation and technology, thought leadership, writing and academia.
Your coach
Indira Kartallozi
Sustainability leadership, entrepreneurship and social enterprise, human rights, and transformational leadership.
Team
Our directors
Wayne Visser
Director
A globally recognised pracademic, poet and possibilist, Wayne has spent more than three decades showing how business, innovation and technology can build a regenerative economy and a thriving future. He is Professor of Practice and GALP Chair in Regenerative Business, Innovation and Technology at Católica Porto School of Business and Economics, where he directs the Católica Centre for Thriving Futures, and Head Program Instructor and Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Previously Director of Sustainability Services at KPMG and founder of CSR International, he has written 46 books, including the international bestseller Thriving, and given over 680 presentations in 60 countries.
Indira Kartallozi
Director
Indira is a Director of Kaleidoscope Futures and the founder and Director of Sustainability Leadership Kosova (SLK), a non-profit established in 2018 to make Kosova a global example of a sustainable, healthy, fair and prosperous society. Through SLK's education programmes, consultancy and movement building, she helps individuals, businesses and organisations build leadership capacity and co-create solutions to sustainability challenges. She is also a tutor at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Recognised for her expertise in entrepreneurship, sustainability and transformational leadership, Indira has shared her work through training and events in more than 30 countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Latin America.
Contact
Let's co-create the future
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