Stuart J. Green

At a Glance

Author of leadership development book The Regenerate Leap

How Leaders Transform Crisis into Enduring Growth, a leadership book for moments when returning to “normal” is no longer possible. The framework equips leaders to use crisis as a deliberate catalyst for growth in the critical period following a major disruption, whether driven by personal tragedy, industry upheaval, or organisational failure.

Leading Expert in Regenerative Growth

Stuart has applied regenerative principles at scale, helping mobilise over USD 1 billion into ocean, climate, and community solutions—demonstrating that the framework works across sectors and contexts.

Founder and CEO Helping Global Leaders Regenerate the World’s Oceans

Over his career, he has worked in ocean, climate, and community solutions and contributed to sustainability and nature policy reforms that create lasting change.

Regular Media Commentator

Stuart has spoken about regenerative growth in everything from interviews in The Guardian, to features in Fast Company and Huff Post. He has also spoken at global conferences, workshops and guest lectures at universities.

Book Speaker

Stuart’s Personal Story – turning crisis into growth

In 2017, Stuart’s wife, human and environmental rights lawyer Atty. Mia Mascariñas-Green, was murdered in front of their children in the Philippines. Overnight, he became the sole breadwinner and a single father of three, forced to uproot his family and leave behind the life, community, and work they had built there.

“Don't ask how to bounce back. Ask what wants to be born from this"

As he struggled to hold both his family and his leadership responsibilities together, Stuart found that existing leadership frameworks failed to address the reality of enduring, irreversible crisis. Over the next seven years, he immersed himself in the study of leadership, trauma, psychology, and post-traumatic growth, reading extensively, interviewing leaders who had navigated extreme adversity, and testing each principle in real time. This disciplined reconstruction became the foundation of the framework that would later be articulated as The Regenerate Leap.

Book Speaker

***The Regenerate Leap* – featured in *Guardian, Fast Company, France24, Forbes***

The Regenerate Leap was written for leaders facing moments when resilience alone is insufficient. It speaks to founders rebuilding after severe setbacks, executives navigating technological and industry disruption, managers leading teams through layoffs, mergers, and pivots, and HR leaders and coaches supporting others through grief and burnout.

Rather than offering resilience as the goal, the book charts a regenerative path forward, showing how leaders can dismantle what no longer serves them, build new capabilities, and convert disruption into the fuel for their next phase of growth. The approach is systematic, grounded in lived experience, and tested across business contexts. It argues that in an age of accelerating disruption, the ability to regenerate is the defining determinant of whether leaders and organisations evolve or become obsolete.

The Regenerate Leap offers a systematic approach, inspired by profound personal adversity and practical field experience. It has been tested in business and proven across industries. It shows that, in an age of accelerating disruption, mindset is the most powerful determinant of whether we evolve or become obsolete.

The Regenerate Leap: How Leaders Transform Crisis into Enduring Growth is out now.

Ready To Speak To The Media

Stuart Green is available to provide expert commentary, interviews, and bylined articles on crisis, resilience, and transformation in business including:

Why Resilience is Obsolete: The New Leadership Imperative in an Age of Constant Crisis

The obsession with ‘bouncing back’ is the biggest strategic liability of modern leadership. Stuart explains why resilience is a trap—and what to do instead.

The 72-Hour Crisis Protocol: What Leaders Must Do in the First Three Days

A practical, step-by-step guide to the most critical early actions in a crisis: separating fact from fear, forming a crisis council, establishing rituals, and protecting decision-making capacity.

How Crisis Releases Hidden Capacities

The biology of fire-dependent ecosystems reveals a counterintuitive truth: some seeds only open in extreme heat. Stuart explains how the same principle applies to leaders and organizations under pressure.