About Us

Mike Pratt

Chair Inspiros Worldwide Ltd

Managing Director Sustainable Enterprise Ltd

Professor of Sustainability and Leadership,
The University of Waikato, New Zealand

Director, Peak Performance Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi
   


Dr Mike Pratt is a business academic and advisor specializing in performance development, leadership and sustainability.   

He is a business advisor and part-time Professor of Sustainability and Leadership at the Waikato Management School, University of Waikato in Hamilton, New Zealand.  He joined the university as its Dean in 1990 and served in that role until 2007. During his tenure as dean Waikato Management School became one of Australasia’s leading business schools and one of 30 in the world accredited by all three global business school accreditation agencies – AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA. In 2004 and again in 2007 Waikato Management School was ranked by the New Zealand Government’s Tertiary Education Commission as New Zealand’s leading research business school. The school strives to be recognized as one of the world’s leading schools committed to sustainable business.   

Mike’s scholarly interests embrace sustainable peak performance, inspirational leadership, value creation and accountability. He has supervised thirteen doctoral students to graduation and has numerous publications with a wide range of co-authors including eight books and more than 150 journal articles and papers. His educational philosophy emphasizes a commitment to high levels of participant interaction, including practical applications of the theories learned within actual organizations.  Mike is co-author of the best selling book Peak Performance: business lessons from the world’s best sports organizations, Harper Collins, London 2000.   

Mike has provided advice and training to a range of global organizations for the last fifteen years in peak performance, organization development, leadership, and sustainability. He is a sought after speaker on these topics. He is a founding director of Inspiros Worldwide Ltd.  Inspiros provides peak performance development services to the chief executives and top management teams of leading global corporations including Saatchi & Saatchi, Procter & Gamble, Visa, Toyota, Novartis, Braun and Publicis Groupe.  The company’s services include purpose co-creation, performance development and leaderships workshops, web-based tools and metrics, coaching and strategic advice.

Mike is also director and co-founder with his wife Helga of Sustainable Enterprise Ltd., a company dedicated to assisting organizations to embrace sustainability in their purpose, business models, practices and leadership.  Mike and Helga have recently completed research in ten iconic global enterprises, founded on sustainability principles.  This research was published as a book in December 2009.  From the research a theory and practice of sustainable enterprise has been developed that enables organizations to enhance their economic performance and do well for society and the environment.

Mike was born in Cambridge, England and obtained a BA Economics (Honours) from Sheffield University, a masters degree from the University of Witwatersrand and a doctorate from The University of South Africa.  He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1972 in London. After working in the motor industry for several years, he lectured in accounting at East London University. He was Associate Professor of accounting at the University of Witwatersrand and Professor and Chairperson of Accounting at Massey University before joining the University of Waikato.  

Mike and Helga are keen blue water sailors and have sailed most of the world’s oceans. Their daughter Susie holds a masters in Fine Arts, is a new media artist, designer and academic working in Sydney, Australia, and their son Martin is a creative interactive designer working in Wellington, New Zealand. When not pursuing their shared academic and business interests Helga and Mike enjoy proximity to nature on their waterfront, bush-clad retreat in New Zealand’s magical Bay of Islands.  

Mike Pratt

Tel: +6494038466
Cell: + 1 917 254 6049

e-mail: mike@sustainableenterprise.org
www.sustainableenterprise.org