Turning Trauma into Purpose with Stuart Green

Turning Trauma into Purpose with Stuart Green

From The Net Zero Business Podcast by Gareth Kane

February 20, 2026 · 39 min

About this episode

Stuart Green discusses his journey of turning personal trauma into a framework for organisational success in the low carbon economy.

In 2017, Stuart Green suffered the kind of loss we all dread. His wife Mia, a human rights and environmental lawyer, was brutally murdered by a hit squad in front of their three children near their home in the Philippines. As a scientist, Stuart decided to research how best to recover from trauma and, after reading 500 pieces of literature, realised that the answer was to abandon the past and embrace the future. His book, the Regenerate Leap, provides a template for organisations to not just survive but thrive in a turbulent world. He rejects the idea of 'resilience' as that is backwards looking, preferring to think about having the mental agility to adapt to the new reality. In this inspirational episode of the pod, Stuart and I discuss how to apply regenerative thinking to organisations facing the transition to the low carbon economy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Gareth Kane

Guest: Stuart Green

Topics covered

  • trauma recovery
  • regenerative thinking
  • low carbon economy
  • mental agility
  • organisational resilience

Keywords

  • trauma
  • regeneration
  • resilience
  • low carbon
  • mental agility
  • organisations
  • environmental law

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Net Zero Business Podcast, Acast

Places: Philippines

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