RAZE
Clear the ground.
A controlled burn removes fuel, not shelter. Face what is true, stop what no longer serves, and find footing in what cannot be changed.
Recognise. Embrace. Ground.
A book and method by Stuart J. Green
The Regenerate Leap
Leap forward. Grow through fire.
A method for leading when the old normal is gone for good.
Featured in The Guardian, Forbes and France 24. Endorsed by Peter H. Diamandis.
Five-star recognitionReaders’ Favorite
Bronze medal2026 Living Now Evergreen Leadership
FinalistLiving Now Book Awards
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Why it exists
Why The Regenerate Leap Exists
Irreversible change creates a different kind of leadership challenge.
I came to understand this when profound loss changed life in ways that could not be undone. Searching for a practical way forward, I immersed myself in the thinking on resilience, recovery and change.
“How do you lead when there is no old normal to return to?”
That question became the foundation of The Regenerate Leap™.
Drawing on three decades of work across systems, investment and resilience, I developed a framework for moving through profound disruption: face what is true, build the capacity the new reality demands, and create what comes next.
Because when change becomes irreversible, leadership requires more than endurance.
It requires the courage and capacity to build forward.
The Leadership Distinction That Matters Now
Resilience vs Regeneration
When bouncing back is no longer an option.
Resilience helps you endure disruption. Regeneration helps you build forward through it. The difference decides whether your organisation evolves or quietly becomes obsolete.
"The day before something is truly a breakthrough, it's a crazy idea."
Peter H. Diamandis. The principle that applies equally to leadership strategy.
| Criterion | Resilience: restoring the past | Regeneration: building the future |
|---|---|---|
| Core orientation | Restore the past. Return to the prior baseline. | Build the future. Design a model fit for current conditions. |
| Relationship to change | Absorbs the shock and minimises damage. | Learns through disruption and accepts irreversible change. |
| Underlying assumption | A stable "normal" exists to bounce back to. | There is no baseline to return to. The ground has permanently shifted. |
| What it protects | Preserves what already exists. | Builds new cognitive, emotional, and organisational capability. |
| Direction of travel | Backward-looking. Endure until things settle. | Forward-looking. Leap before the old model fails. |
| End state | Intact, but fundamentally unchanged. | Redesigned for the conditions that exist now. |
Core orientation
Resilience
Restore the past. Return to the prior baseline.
Regeneration
Build the future. Design a model fit for current conditions.
Relationship to change
Resilience
Absorbs the shock and minimises damage.
Regeneration
Learns through disruption and accepts irreversible change.
Underlying assumption
Resilience
A stable "normal" exists to bounce back to.
Regeneration
There is no baseline to return to. The ground has permanently shifted.
What it protects
Resilience
Preserves what already exists.
Regeneration
Builds new cognitive, emotional, and organisational capability.
Direction of travel
Resilience
Backward-looking. Endure until things settle.
Regeneration
Forward-looking. Leap before the old model fails.
End state
Resilience
Intact, but fundamentally unchanged.
Regeneration
Redesigned for the conditions that exist now.
Two readers, one method
Where are you standing?
Navigating it yourself
Bereavement, illness, divorce, or upheaval no one wrote a manual for, and a family or people depending on you to keep going.
Leading through it
A founder, CEO, or board facing structural disruption, a market that shifted, a model that broke, a team that needs a way forward.
The Crisis
You built something that mattered.
Then the fire came.
Personal upheaval. Family strain. A market that turned. A model that stopped working. Often not one crisis but several at once, a polycrisis, with no stable ground to retreat to.
"Stay resilient. Absorb the shock. Wait it out. Get back to normal."
But what if there is no "normal" to return to? What if resilience, the very quality we are taught to prize, is keeping us anchored to a reality that no longer exists?
The Serotinous Pine Cone
Some seeds can only germinate through fire.
The serotinous pine cone holds its seeds sealed in resin for years, waiting. Not for rain. Not for perfect conditions. For fire. The very thing that destroys the old forest is the only force powerful enough to release the seeds of the new one.
Don't bounce back to what broke. Build forward into what's next.
The REGENERATE Framework
Three phases. Ten steps.
Built from how living systems respond to shock and tested in organisational crisis.
ENRICH
Nourish the soil.
After fire, ash becomes nutrient. Build the decision-making capacity the next phase will draw on.
Empower. Navigate. Equip. Reframe.
GROW
Build what comes next.
The forest regrows differently, shaped for the conditions that exist now. Execute and embed the new capacity while the margin for error is thin.
Adapt. Transform. Evolve.
The book
There is nothing to bounce back to.
The Regenerate Leap is a business book for CEOs, founders, senior executives and board members. Its subjects are crisis leadership, organisational change, business turnaround and decision making under sustained pressure.
Read Chapter 11 free →In Their Own Words
Praise for The Regenerate Leap
"I was with Stuart when his world collapsed, and I have seen him apply these principles in the most challenging contexts. Having coordinated the international response to one of the most devastating natural disasters in modern history, I know the difference between recovery and regeneration is leadership. The clearest, most actionable framework I have encountered for leading through catastrophic disruption, required reading for anyone in public service, diplomacy, or humanitarian response."
Asif Ahmad, CMG
British Ambassador to the Philippines, 2013 to 2017
"The old advice to simply 'bounce back' is a recipe for extinction. Stuart J. Green's REGENERATE provides the essential framework to leap forward and build the future you desire and deserve."
Peter H. Diamandis, MD
Founder & Executive Chairman, XPRIZE. Founder, Singularity University & Abundance360.
"Drawing on Stuart's extraordinary journey through unimaginable loss, this book blends personal testimony with field-tested leadership insight, a clear and deeply moving roadmap for navigating crisis."
Dr Alasdair Harris
Founder, Blue Ventures. Director, Ocean Resilience and Climate Alliance.
"Stuart J. Green lays out a roadmap for organizational regeneration. Essential for any leader seeking to navigate crisis with wisdom and turn disruption into transformational opportunity."
Margaret "Meg" Caldwell
Former Ocean Director, Packard Foundation. Former Director, Stanford Environmental & Natural Resources Law and Policy Program.
Reader Reviews
What early readers say
Verified purchases on Amazon.
Not your ordinary resilience book
"This is not a resilience book. It is a rigorous framework for leaders facing irreversible change, when the old playbook no longer applies and there is nothing to 'bounce back' to. Serious, practical, and quietly confronting. I would recommend it to CEOs, founders, and board leaders navigating structural disruption."
Olivia Mende · United States · Verified Purchase
Read on Amazon →A must-have book
"Stuart Green turns lived experience into a playbook for regeneration when returning to the way things were is no longer possible. Its lessons speak equally to C-suite leaders navigating disruption and to families finding their way through upheaval. Grounded, and at times a book you must set down to absorb."
Jihan E. · United States · Verified Purchase
Read on Amazon →A rare bridge between lived disruption and disciplined leadership
"Most leadership books talk about bouncing back. This tackles a harder truth: sometimes there is no 'back' to return to. Green's idea of building forward rather than restoring the past captures that reality well. A thoughtful, practical read."
V. Nguyen · United States · Verified Purchase
Read on Amazon →An inspiring framework for leaders and individuals
"This book has a moving story at its heart and shows how a family found a way not just to survive but to thrive. Simple to understand and practical, an unflinching, honest way to navigate to a better place. A useful tool for an everyday approach to running life."
Bruce C. · United Kingdom · Verified Purchase
Read on Amazon →Who this book is for
Leaders facing a model that no longer fits.
The Regenerate Leap is a business book for CEOs, founders, senior executives and board members. Its subjects are crisis leadership, organisational change, business turnaround and decision making under sustained pressure.
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Frequently asked questions
Clear answers, in brief.
What is The Regenerate Leap?
The Regenerate Leap is a crisis leadership book by Stuart J. Green, published in 2026. It presents the REGENERATE method: three phases and ten steps for leading when the previous operating model has become structurally obsolete.
What is the difference between resilience and regeneration?
Resilience absorbs shock and works to restore a prior state. Regeneration accepts that the baseline has shifted and designs for the conditions that exist now.
Who is the book for?
CEOs, founders, senior executives and board members navigating disruption, turnaround or sustained pressure. The method was formed under personal loss before it was applied to organisations.
What is the REGENERATE framework?
REGENERATE is a ten-step method structured across three phases. RAZE clears the ground. ENRICH builds capacity. GROW builds what comes next.
Where can I buy or listen?
Paperback and Kindle are available on Amazon UK and Amazon US. The audiobook, read by the author, is available on Barnes & Noble and TuneIn. Chapter 11 is free to read on this site.
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Why this book exists
Stuart read over 500 books looking for a manual for leading his family when there was no roadmap. He did not find one. So he wrote this one.
The Regenerate Leap is built on marine systems science, three decades of field experience across ocean investment and community resilience, and one family's experience of irreversible loss.
It is not a memoir. It is a method.
The fire is inevitable.
Who you become is not.
Moving forward when bouncing back is no longer possible.
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