WE HELP IMPACT INNOVATORS SCALE
THEIR REVENUE,
REACH & RETURNS.
WE HELP IMPACT INNOVATORS SCALE THEIR REVENUE,
REACH & RETURNS.
WE HELP IMPACT INNOVATORS SCALE THEIR REVENUE,
REACH & RETURNS.
Led by Cameron Burgess
WE HELP IMPACT INNOVATORS SCALE THEIR REVENUE,
REACH & RETURNS.
Led by Cameron Burgess
Choose:
Family or funding.
Income or impact.
Wellbeing or work.
These are the agonising choices that keep impact innovators up at night.
If you're seeking change without compromise, you've come to the right place.
Choose:
Family or funding.
Income or impact.
Sanity or scale.
These are the agonising choices that keep impact innovators up at night. If you're seeking scale without sacrifice, you're in the right place.
Expertise
Expertise
Cameron works at the intersection of impact, innovation and finance.
Cross-Cultural Catalyst
Getting called back to work with indigenous communities and communities of colour across 45+ countries isn't about diversity consulting—it's about earning credibility through delivery. When your approach works everywhere from Silicon Valley boardrooms to Australian Aboriginal communities, you've transcended cultural barriers most consultants never cross. Cameron designs solutions that work with and for your cultural reality, not despite it.
Getting called back to work with indigenous communities and communities of colour across 45+ countries isn't about diversity consulting—it's about earning credibility through delivery. When your approach works everywhere from Silicon Valley boardrooms to Australian Aboriginal communities, you've transcended cultural barriers most consultants never cross. Cameron designs solutions that work with and for your cultural reality, not despite it.
Enterprise Brain, Buddha Heart
Three decades building consulting methodologies exclusively for purpose-driven organisations has created strategic tools that match top-tier firms for sophistication whilst understanding what drives your work. These frameworks perform under pressure—from startup pivots to international development crises. Cameron brings Fortune 500 strategic rigour to mission-critical challenges without corporate soullessness.
Three decades building consulting methodologies exclusively for purpose-driven organisations has created strategic tools that match top-tier firms for sophistication whilst understanding what drives your work. These frameworks perform under pressure—from startup pivots to international development crises. Cameron brings Fortune 500 strategic rigour to mission-critical challenges without corporate soullessness.
Non-Neutral Facilitation
Polite consensus-building often protects dysfunction rather than resolving it. Cameron's signature approach exposes and transforms core conflicts to create genuine alignment. This methodology works when traditional facilitation fails—turning stuck conversations into clear decisions. He guides the difficult conversations that unlock progress when everyone else stays safely neutral.
Polite consensus-building often protects dysfunction rather than resolving it. Cameron's signature approach exposes and transforms core conflicts to create genuine alignment. This methodology works when traditional facilitation fails—turning stuck conversations into clear decisions. He guides the difficult conversations that unlock progress when everyone else stays safely neutral.
Convert Binders to Bumper Stickers
Sophisticated thinking is worthless if stakeholders don't understand it, and your team can't implement it. Cameron transforms dense strategies into memorable frameworks that organisations actually execute. The bridge between breakthrough ideas and practical adoption runs through clear, compelling communication. He turns your complex thinking into simple language that drives coordinated action across your entire organisation.
Sophisticated thinking is worthless if stakeholders don't understand it, and your team can't implement it. Cameron transforms dense strategies into memorable frameworks that organisations actually execute. The bridge between breakthrough ideas and practical adoption runs through clear, compelling communication. He turns your complex thinking into simple language that drives coordinated action across your entire organisation.
Regenerative Infrastructure
Be Prepared
Most organisations live in reactive mode, managing emergencies instead of preventing them. Cameron moves groups from emergency response to anticipatory design—creating robust infrastructure that handles stress rather than breaking under it. He architects proactive systems that strengthen your organisation before challenges arise.
Most organisations live in reactive mode, managing emergencies instead of preventing them. Cameron moves groups from emergency response to anticipatory design—creating robust infrastructure that handles stress rather than breaking under it. He architects proactive systems that strengthen your organisation before challenges arise.
Missions Without Martyrs
Purpose-driven leaders often confuse personal sacrifice with commitment, creating unsustainable bottlenecks that limit organisational growth. Cameron redesigns accountability flows to eliminate individual over-dependence whilst accelerating mission delivery. He restructures how decisions and responsibilities move through your organisation, scaling impact while eliminating inevitable leadership burnout.
Purpose-driven leaders often confuse personal sacrifice with commitment, creating unsustainable bottlenecks that limit organisational growth. Cameron redesigns accountability flows to eliminate individual over-dependence whilst accelerating mission delivery. He restructures how decisions and responsibilities move through your organisation, scaling impact while eliminating inevitable leadership burnout.
Impact Domains
Impact Domains
Over a thirty year career, Cameron has worked across virtually every impact domain, including:
Over a thirty year career, Cameron has worked across virtually every impact domain, including:
clean energy
clean energy
clean energy
clean energy
disaster resilience
disaster resilience
disaster resilience
disaster resilience
environmental conservation
environmental conservation
environmental conservation
environmental conservation
gender equality
gender equality
gender equality
gender equality
peace & governance
peace & governance
peace & governance
peace & governance
climate action
climate action
climate action
climate action
economic opportunity
economic opportunity
economic opportunity
economic opportunity
financial inclusion
financial inclusion
financial inclusion
financial inclusion
health & wellbeing
health & wellbeing
health & wellbeing
health & wellbeing
urban development
urban development
urban development
urban development
digital transformation
digital transformation
digital transformation
digital transformation
education & skills
education & skills
education & skills
education & skills
food systems
food systems
food systems
food systems
human rights
human rights
human rights
human rights
water security
water security
water security
water security
Many Impact Innovators Find They:
Many Impact Innovators Find They:
Struggle with operational inefficiencies that prevent them from scaling their mission effectively
Experience uncertainty about strategic direction during funding crises and market shifts
Face ethical dilemmas balancing profit with purpose, feeling forced to choose between sustainability and impact
Suffer from team burnout and leadership fatigue whilst trying to maintain organisational momentum
Feel overwhelmed by competing priorities, unable to make decisive choices that drive real progress
Struggle with operational inefficiencies that prevent them from scaling their mission effectively
Experience uncertainty about strategic direction during funding crises and market shifts
Face ethical dilemmas balancing profit with purpose, feeling forced to choose between sustainability and impact
Suffer from team burnout and leadership fatigue whilst trying to maintain organisational momentum
Feel overwhelmed by competing priorities, unable to make decisive choices that drive real progress
The Breaking Point
The Breaking Point
As A Result Of Working With Cameron, Clients:
As A Result Of Working With Cameron, Clients:
After Working With Cameron, Clients:
After Working With Cameron, Clients:
Align their values, purpose and strategy with organisational structures that actually function
Discover untapped revenue opportunities within their existing impact activities
Develop clear roadmaps toward compelling futures that don't require personal martyrdom
Act with greater efficiency and decisiveness, cutting through complexity to focus on what matters
Reconnect with their sense of purpose whilst building missions that run on systems, not sacrifice
Align their values, purpose and strategy with organisational structures that actually function
Discover untapped revenue opportunities within their existing impact activities
Develop clear roadmaps toward compelling futures that don't require personal martyrdom
Act with greater efficiency and decisiveness, cutting through complexity to focus on what matters
Reconnect with their sense of purpose whilst building missions that run on systems, not sacrifice
Align their values, purpose and strategy with organisational structures that actually function
Discover untapped revenue opportunities within their existing impact activities
Develop clear roadmaps toward compelling futures that don't require personal martyrdom
Act with greater efficiency and decisiveness, cutting through complexity to focus on what matters
Reconnect with their sense of purpose whilst building missions that run on systems, not sacrifice
Align their values, purpose and strategy with organisational structures that actually function
Discover untapped revenue opportunities within their existing impact activities
Develop clear roadmaps toward compelling futures that don't require personal martyrdom
Act with greater efficiency and decisiveness, cutting through complexity to focus on what matters
Reconnect with their sense of purpose whilst building missions that run on systems, not sacrifice
The Breakthrough Engine
The Breakthrough Engine
Three things are necessary for a bird to fly —
the two wings, and the tail as a rudder for steering.
Jnana (knowledge) is the one wing, Bhakti (love) is the other,
and Yoga is the tail that keeps up the balance.
Swami Vivekananda
Three things are necessary for a bird to fly —
the two wings, and the tail as a rudder for steering.
Jnana (knowledge) is the one wing, Bhakti (love) is the other, and Yoga is the tail that keeps up the balance.
Swami Vivekananda
The Impact Innovator Framework™
The Impact Innovator Framework™
Trusted by 500+ impact innovators across 45 countries
Trusted by 500+ impact innovators across 45 countries
Most impact organisations fail not from lack of passion or intelligence, but from treating love, knowledge, and action as separate functions instead of integrated forces.
Love without knowledge creates well-intentioned chaos. Knowledge without action generates analysis paralysis. Action without love becomes soulless execution. But when all three work in dynamic relationship—when compassion shapes strategy, analysis deepens emotional intelligence, and execution remains aligned with purpose—you create what we call an Impact Engine: sustainable transformation that accelerates revenue, reach, and results without requiring anyone's martyrdom to survive.
The Impact Innovator Framework™ has been battle-tested over 20 years with more than 500 impact innovators across 45 countries. It transforms organisations from founder-dependent ventures into systematic change-makers that scale impact through integrated design, not individual sacrifice.
Most impact organisations fail not from lack of passion or intelligence, but from treating love, knowledge, and action as separate functions instead of integrated forces.
Love without knowledge creates well-intentioned chaos. Knowledge without action generates analysis paralysis. Action without love becomes soulless execution. But when all three work in dynamic relationship—when compassion shapes strategy, analysis deepens emotional intelligence, and execution remains aligned with purpose—you create what we call an Impact Engine: sustainable transformation that accelerates revenue, reach, and results without requiring anyone's martyrdom to survive.
The Impact Innovator Framework™ has been battle-tested over 20 years with more than 500 impact innovators across 45 countries. It transforms organisations from founder-dependent ventures into systematic change-makers that scale impact through integrated design, not individual sacrifice.
Programs
Programs
Experiences that transform teams, projects, and organisations
Experiences that transform teams, projects, and organisations
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Insights
Insights
Cameron's thought leadership bridges the gap between breakthrough thinking and practical implementation. His writing and speaking transform complex systems challenges into actionable strategies that organisations can actually execute. When foundations need clarity on trillion-dollar problems or boards need direction through crisis, they turn to Cameron's ability to cut through complexity and deliver insights that drive real change.
Cameron's thought leadership bridges the gap between breakthrough thinking and practical implementation. His writing and speaking transform complex systems challenges into actionable strategies that organisations can actually execute. When foundations need clarity on trillion-dollar problems or boards need direction through crisis, they turn to Cameron's ability to cut through complexity and deliver insights that drive real change.
White Papers, Concept Notes & Research Reports
White Papers, Concept Notes & Research Reports
From "From Billions to Trillions" (mobilising capital for the SDGs) to crisis response frameworks used across 25+ countries, Cameron's written work provides the intellectual foundation for systemic change initiatives. His reports don't gather dust—they become the strategic blueprints that guide multi-million dollar programmes and policy decisions. Cameron's writing process distils years of field experience into frameworks that work under pressure. Whether it's a concept note for a $50M climate initiative or a white paper reshaping how international development approaches technology sovereignty, his work translates complex systems thinking into compelling cases for action
From "From Billions to Trillions" (mobilising capital for the SDGs) to crisis response frameworks used across 25+ countries, Cameron's written work provides the intellectual foundation for systemic change initiatives. His reports don't gather dust—they become the strategic blueprints that guide multi-million dollar programmes and policy decisions. Cameron's writing process distils years of field experience into frameworks that work under pressure. Whether it's a concept note for a $50M climate initiative or a white paper reshaping how international development approaches technology sovereignty, his work translates complex systems thinking into compelling cases for action
Need strategic documentation that moves
from insight to implementation?
Need strategic documentation that moves from insight to implementation?
Need strategic documentation that moves from insight to implementation?
Let's discuss how Cameron can help you articulate your vision in ways
that unlock resources and drive coordinated action.
Let's discuss how Cameron can help you articulate your vision in ways that unlock resources and drive coordinated action.
Let's discuss how Cameron can help you articulate your vision in ways that unlock resources and drive coordinated action.
Let's discuss how Cameron can help you articulate your vision in ways that unlock resources and drive coordinated action.
Speaking, Facilitating & Workshopping
Speaking, Facilitating & Workshopping
Cameron's speaking isn't about inspiration—it's about transformation. His non-neutral facilitation style has guided boards through existential crises, aligned multi-stakeholder coalitions around controversial decisions, and helped organisations navigate the difficult conversations that unlock breakthrough progress. From MIT Solve to international development conferences, Cameron brings three decades of field experience to stages and boardrooms. His presentations combine intellectual rigour with practical frameworks, ensuring participants leave with clear next steps rather than just good intentions. When traditional facilitation fails to move groups past polite dysfunction, Cameron's approach creates genuine alignment and decisive action.
Cameron's speaking isn't about inspiration—it's about transformation. His non-neutral facilitation style has guided boards through existential crises, aligned multi-stakeholder coalitions around controversial decisions, and helped organisations navigate the difficult conversations that unlock breakthrough progress. From MIT Solve to international development conferences, Cameron brings three decades of field experience to stages and boardrooms. His presentations combine intellectual rigour with practical frameworks, ensuring participants leave with clear next steps rather than just good intentions. When traditional facilitation fails to move groups past polite dysfunction, Cameron's approach creates genuine alignment and decisive action.
Cameron's speaking isn't about inspiration—it's about transformation. His non-neutral facilitation style has guided boards through existential crises, aligned multi-stakeholder coalitions around controversial decisions, and helped organisations navigate the difficult conversations that unlock breakthrough progress. From SOCAP Global and SXSW, to international development conferences, Cameron brings over three decades of field experience to stages and boardrooms. His presentations combine intellectual rigour with practical frameworks, ensuring participants leave with clear next steps rather than just good intentions. When traditional facilitation fails to move groups past polite dysfunction, Cameron's approach creates genuine alignment and decisive action.
Looking for a speaker who facilitates breakthrough
rather than just motivation?
Looking for a speaker who facilitates breakthrough
rather than just motivation?
Looking for a speaker who facilitates breakthrough rather than just motivation?
Looking for a speaker who facilitates breakthrough rather than just motivation?
Let's explore how Cameron can guide your next critical conversation toward clear outcomes.
Let's explore how Cameron can guide your next critical conversation toward clear outcomes.
Let's explore how Cameron can guide your next
critical conversation toward clear outcomes.
Let's explore how Cameron can guide your next
critical conversation toward clear outcomes.
About Cameron Burgess
About Cameron Burgess
Strategist | Speaker | Systems Entrepreneur
Strategist | Speaker | Systems Entrepreneur
Cameron is a systems strategist who fixes costly leadership bottlenecks in impact organisations. For more than thirty years, he's helped purpose-driven leaders stop burning out and start building sustainable operations.
Cameron has a reputation for rapidly bringing focus to impact innovators across hundreds of organisations—from micro-entrepreneurs in frontier markets to international foundations and massive multi-stakeholder initiatives. Compassionate, fierce, and strategic, his approach is brutally practical: stop assuming responsibilities that break you, start designing structures that sustain you.
His work has been trusted by the Gates, Rockefeller, and Bertelsmann Foundations, development agencies including GIZ, SDC, and USAID, and major NGOs including Mercy Corps, Oxfam, and GAVI. Whether preventing founder burnout at a climate tech startup or redesigning leadership structures for a global NGO, Cameron helps leaders question what they're carrying, distribute what they're holding, and build missions that run without martyrdom.
Currently based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Cameron is one of the few impact strategists with the experience, willingness and flexibility to travel as far as necessary, for as long as required, to support devoted change-makers creating systemic transformation.
Cameron is a systems strategist who fixes costly leadership bottlenecks in impact organisations. For more than thirty years, he's helped purpose-driven leaders stop burning out and start building sustainable operations.
Cameron has a reputation for rapidly bringing focus to impact innovators across hundreds of organisations—from micro-entrepreneurs in frontier markets to international foundations and massive multi-stakeholder initiatives. Compassionate, fierce, and strategic, his approach is brutally practical: stop assuming responsibilities that break you, start designing structures that sustain you.
His work has been trusted by the Gates, Rockefeller, and Bertelsmann Foundations, development agencies including GIZ, SDC, and USAID, and major NGOs including Mercy Corps, Oxfam, and GAVI. Whether preventing founder burnout at a climate tech startup or redesigning leadership structures for a global NGO, Cameron helps leaders question what they're carrying, distribute what they're holding, and build missions that run without martyrdom.
Currently based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Cameron is one of the few impact strategists with the experience, willingness and flexibility to travel as far as necessary, for as long as required, to support devoted change-makers creating systemic transformation.
Impact
Impact
A snapshot of testimonials from satisfied clients
A snapshot of testimonials from satisfied clients
Cameron Burgess is a powerhouse of passion, knowledge and experience and brings deep understanding of business, strategy and planning to the table. His easy articulation and delivery of real world information and advice is priceless. My fellow board members and I would love to have a bottle of Cameron available to pop at every meeting.
Jane Sleight-Leach
Founding Director | Independent Social Enterprise Network, Logan
Cameron is a seasoned business strategist and a no-nonsense advisor unafraid to challenge implicit and explicit assumptions, and to call it as he sees it. His raw intellect and strong character will force you to face your biggest challenges with solutions you hadn't considered before.
Greg Berry
Board Director | Impact Hub Network
Cameron is an incredible human, and I could not recommend him more for any business looking to up-level their team, further clarify their purpose, and outline the specific steps to achieving it … If you’re looking for a game changing business mentor, advisor or strategic consultant, who’s willing to travel as far as necessary to get the job done (he flew from France to Guatemala to work with our team!) I highly recommend getting on his calendar.
Dakotah Apostolou
Co-founder | Cohere
Cameron's combination of strategic intelligence and deep commitment to 'making a difference' have proven to be of profound importance to the evolution of Here We Grow. Cameron's no-nonsense approach and expertise in developing strategies in service to mission, has resulted in astronomical leaps forward for the organisation. If you have the opportunity to work with Cameron, I highly recommend it.
Craig King
Founder | Here We Grow
Cameron is a bold and brilliant change-maker with a huge heart and an uncompromising commitment to supporting individuals and organizations in actualizing their highest potential. Taking a whole-system approach, Cameron's gift for recognizing and harmonizing incompatibilities between vision and strategy coupled with extensive experience in marketing and communications, organizational change and operational systems make him a powerful ally for any socially or environmentally focused venture.
Heidi Cuppari
Co-founder | Dream Tank
Cameron is an open-hearted warrior, a relentless and unstoppable force of nature who typifies the style of leadership I believe we need in an increasingly divided world.
Jennifer Lopez
Commercial Innovation | International Space Station
We worked with Cameron at an important stage in Hitnet’s evolution. Cameron provided strategic guidance and helped us to clearly articulate the complex digital ecosystem that Hitnet became. We look back at our work with him as being visionary and instrumental in our path to becoming a sustainable social business.
Julie Gibson
Co-Founder | HitNet
Cameron brings wisdom, a wealth of experience and connections, strategic thinking, and a fearless communication style to all of his engagements … If you need mentoring, connections and/or some frank advice to improve your focus, impact and value, get Cameron on your side.
Cameron Neil
Managing Director | Red Hat Impact
I've known and had the pleasure of working with Cameron as both a client and colleague for more than a decade. I'm proud to call him my friend. He is an extraordinary human – a lover, innovator, incredibly strategic, wise in an ancient kind of way, and incredibly smart. If you want to cut through the BS and build a powerful legacy amidst a sea of sameness and mediocrity – then trust Cameron to guide your next evolution.
Stephen Scott Johnson
Founder | Altitud3
Cameron Burgess is a powerhouse of passion, knowledge and experience and brings deep understanding of business, strategy and planning to the table. His easy articulation and delivery of real world information and advice is priceless. My fellow board members and I would love to have a bottle of Cameron available to pop at every meeting.
Jane Sleight-Leach
Founding Director | Independent Social Enterprise Network, Logan
Cameron is a seasoned business strategist and a no-nonsense advisor unafraid to challenge implicit and explicit assumptions, and to call it as he sees it. His raw intellect and strong character will force you to face your biggest challenges with solutions you hadn't considered before.
Greg Berry
Board Director | Impact Hub Network
Cameron is an incredible human, and I could not recommend him more for any business looking to up-level their team, further clarify their purpose, and outline the specific steps to achieving it … If you’re looking for a game changing business mentor, advisor or strategic consultant, who’s willing to travel as far as necessary to get the job done (he flew from France to Guatemala to work with our team!) I highly recommend getting on his calendar.
Dakotah Apostolou
Co-founder | Cohere
Cameron's combination of strategic intelligence and deep commitment to 'making a difference' have proven to be of profound importance to the evolution of Here We Grow. Cameron's no-nonsense approach and expertise in developing strategies in service to mission, has resulted in astronomical leaps forward for the organisation. If you have the opportunity to work with Cameron, I highly recommend it.
Craig King
Founder | Here We Grow
Cameron is a bold and brilliant change-maker with a huge heart and an uncompromising commitment to supporting individuals and organizations in actualizing their highest potential. Taking a whole-system approach, Cameron's gift for recognizing and harmonizing incompatibilities between vision and strategy coupled with extensive experience in marketing and communications, organizational change and operational systems make him a powerful ally for any socially or environmentally focused venture.
Heidi Cuppari
Co-founder | Dream Tank
Cameron is an open-hearted warrior, a relentless and unstoppable force of nature who typifies the style of leadership I believe we need in an increasingly divided world.
Jennifer Lopez
Commercial Innovation | International Space Station
We worked with Cameron at an important stage in Hitnet’s evolution. Cameron provided strategic guidance and helped us to clearly articulate the complex digital ecosystem that Hitnet became. We look back at our work with him as being visionary and instrumental in our path to becoming a sustainable social business.
Julie Gibson
Co-Founder | HitNet
Cameron brings wisdom, a wealth of experience and connections, strategic thinking, and a fearless communication style to all of his engagements … If you need mentoring, connections and/or some frank advice to improve your focus, impact and value, get Cameron on your side.
Cameron Neil
Managing Director | Red Hat Impact
I've known and had the pleasure of working with Cameron as both a client and colleague for more than a decade. I'm proud to call him my friend. He is an extraordinary human – a lover, innovator, incredibly strategic, wise in an ancient kind of way, and incredibly smart. If you want to cut through the BS and build a powerful legacy amidst a sea of sameness and mediocrity – then trust Cameron to guide your next evolution.
Stephen Scott Johnson
Founder | Altitud3