Standards, books and articles

This book is what they said, in their words, to the adults who make the decisions they live with.

They answered with more precision than most of the adults who make decisions about them. The book sets out twelve things they agree on, six ways their worlds differ, and ten asks, each with a measure attached, for governments, companies, and the everyday adults around them. Written for parents, teachers, coaches, and Scout leaders, and for the people who write policy, run companies, and sit on boards.

This is not a leadership self-help book. It is a systems analysis of corporate governance, decision-making under pressure, and organizational judgment in modern businesses and institutions, for readers who want to understand why sustainability and ESG efforts fail beyond surface explanations.

It is not a maturity model. It is also not a project management book.

The book is structured around governance, impact assessment, intervention design, implementation discipline, measurement, and accountability. It covers the decision rights sustainability practitioners must hold, the conditions that trigger escalation or refusal, and the difference between mitigative action and regenerative obligation.

In a world addicted to speed, performance, and profit-at-all-costs, Becoming Regenerative is a call to reclaim leadership power, not by pushing harder, but by leading from wholeness.

A guide for change-makers who are done sacrificing their wellbeing for broken systems. Not a leadership manual. A manifesto for a new era.

My chapter is “Delivering on Sustainability in a Sustainable Way.” Project Management Institute, June 2024. ISBN 978-1-62825-819-6 (ebook), 978-1-62825-818-9 (print).

Davenport, on how leadership judgement, governance and systems thinking shape long-term value. I contributed two chapters. Project Management Institute, June 2026.

Version 4 is a major revision, not an incremental update. Every one of the 52 elements has been rewritten with updated language, baseline requirements, defined indicators, and explicit alignment to GRI, TCFD, ISSB, and the SDGs.

Version 4 introduces the Regeneration Continuum (Mitigation, Restoration, Regeneration), formal alignment with EU CSRD double materiality, adaptive governance elements for high-uncertainty environments, new People elements for social regeneration and mental health, and a structured 1–5 impact scoring model with the No Masking Rule. 137 pages. Free. No membership required.

Where the project-management P5 governs how work is delivered, the business-practice P5 governs how organizations run. Same architecture, applied to the operating model.

The framework integrates the triple bottom line of People, Planet, and Prosperity with Product and Process considerations, mapped to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It provides actionable methodologies to assess, measure, and improve sustainability performance across the organization. Free.

Written for project managers, sponsors, and PMOs who need to translate disclosure obligations and impact commitments into the daily work of delivery. Published by the PMI-GPM joint venture.

By embedding the P5 Framework into project governance, leaders can strengthen risk management, ESG credibility, and alignment with global standards including GRI, SASB/ISSB, TCFD, the SDGs, and the Kunming-Montreal framework.

A PMI-GPM publication, free to download.

Rewritten from the ground up. Ten competence units across two practitioner tracks: eight shared, two additional for project managers. Every unit has defined elements and performance criteria tied to real-world evidence. Competence is demonstrated, not declared.

Version 2.1 introduces a new Regenerative Design unit, setting the standard for where the profession is heading: measurably enhancing system capacity rather than reducing harm. The standard supports formal assessment for the CSPMs™ and CSPMx™ certifications. Free.