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Patricia Kaziro is the Founder and CEO of Impact Business School. With a career spent facilitating transformation for individuals, businesses and communities, Patricia confidently guides business leaders to create more impact by building high performing teams and inclusive workplaces. She is a powerful enabler of transformational change and is well equipped to co-pilot your organisational objectives and move your company forwards.
Our Story
Impact Business School was founded by Patricia Kaziro with the goal of equipping 1 million business leaders with the tools, knowledge, and education to solve pressing social and ecological challenges by 2030. The institution champions a bold new standard for responsible leadership and impact-driven business models, empowering leaders and organisations to innovate, achieve sustainable growth, and lead with purpose and integrity.
Founder and Director of Global Learning Solutions, Patricia Kaziro, has an academic foundation in Sustainable Living, Entrepreneurship and Business Commercialisation, Sociology, and Social Ecology. She applies a systems-thinking approach to leadership and business transformation. Her expertise—strengthened by professional certifications in NLP coaching and mindfulness—integrates cultural intelligence, resilience, and human-centered design into leadership strategies.
As a recognised expert in inclusive leadership, impact entrepreneurship, and organisational change, Patricia has built a reputation for guiding organisations to embed social impact and sustainability into their strategy—turning corporate responsibility into a competitive advantage. Her work helps leaders align profitability with purpose, foster high-performing teams, and build inclusive, adaptive workplaces.
Impact Business School is a premier global learning institution that empowers business leaders to create systemic change through sustainable, profitable, and purpose-driven enterprises. Based in Australia with a global reach, it stands at the intersection of business excellence and social impact.
Our Why
Patricia was compelled to establish Impact Business School and disrupt the notion of “business as usual,” by combining her commercial business acumen with the growing shift toward impact-driven enterprises that benefit both people and the planet. She believes that each of us can contribute to solving the complex ecological and social challenges we face—by harnessing the power of diversity and striving toward equity. Now is the time for companies to support inclusion to innovate and stay ahead of the curve.
HUMANITARIAN — DYNAMIC — COMMERCIAL LENS — BUILDER MINDSET — SYSTEMS THINKER — SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT
Patricia is sought after for the breadth and depth of her professional experience, academic qualifications, and unique lived experience.
She brings her expertise as a speaker, instructor, community builder, and educator into our program design and leads our global initiatives and team of executive coaches. Patricia also hosts the Meet the Leaders podcast.
Her approach is holistic and humanistic—factoring in what makes each individual and organisation unique, while bridging the gap between what we know and what we can do to create more resilient people and companies.
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Experts-in-Residence
Duncan Smith
We are delighted to welcome Duncan Smith aboard the Impact Business School as one of our inaugural Experts-in-Residence.
Duncan holds a BA in Comparative Religion from Trinity College and a M.Ed. from Harvard focusing on Organizational Behaviour and Adult Learning.
Duncan serves as an advisor to and mentor for the Inclusion Allies Coalition, is a coach for the Forum on Workplace Inclusion and has been a member of the Expert Panel for the Global Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Benchmarks since 2011. In 2018 Duncan released the book Foundations of Diversity, where in conversation with Hala Abdelnour, he explored similarity and difference, majority and minority, assumptions and bias, inclusion and exclusion, power and privilege.
Duncan creates the space for global and local leaders to work better with each other and their teams and has extensive experience designing, implementing and evaluating organisational culture change in the private, government, non-profit, community and academia sectors, working in 24 countries across 4 continents (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Australia).
Duncan believes the power of diversity can be best used to solve problems and build stronger working relationships. We couldn’t agree more and invite you to join Duncan Smith and Patricia Kaziro at Impact Business School’s upcoming Roundtable Masterclass so you can meet our Expert-in-Residence and learn more about what modern leadership and inclusive workplaces look like and creating impact as a collective by celebrating our diversity and interconnectedness.
Patricia Kaziro
Director of Global Learning Solutions
Principal Consultant
MASTER BUSINESS. MAXIMISE YOUR IMPACT.
Patricia leads the creation and activation of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion learning solutions and our flagship leadership program The Impact League.