Sustainability in projects: What actually works? webinar

On Tuesday 10 November three experienced practitioners from across regions and industries explored one of the biggest challenges facing organisations today, not understanding sustainability but successfully embedding it into project delivery.

While many organisations have established sustainability strategies, embedding them into everyday projects often requires navigating organisational change, stakeholder expectations, emerging technologies and operational realities.

The panel with experience across organisational transformation, digital sustainability and operational delivery, focussed their contribution on sharing real experiences rather than theory. Through an open, moderated discussion and audience Q&A, panellists will share practical lessons, challenges and approaches that have helped them embed sustainability within projects, programmes and organisations. Attendees gained perspectives from different sectors and regions while exploring what works in practice and how these lessons can be adapted to their own project environments.

By the end of this webinar content attendees:

• understood why sustainability initiatives often struggle during project delivery
• explored how stakeholder behaviour influences successful implementation
• recognised the relationship between technology, sustainability and responsible innovation
• gained practical lessons from experienced practitioners working across different sectors
• could identify actions that can be applied within their own projects
   

Webinar resources

The panel has kindly allowed their presented material to be made available for viewing. The webinar recording on Vimeo, is now available in our APM resources area and also embedded below for reference.

This webinar is suitable for professionals with any level of experience.

 

Speaker panel

Lizzy Binks, Sustainability & Environmental Advisor, OCU - LinkedIn

Lizzy supports the delivery of major energy and utility infrastructure projects across the London & South region. She works with project teams, clients, subcontractors and supply chain partners to embed sustainability into project delivery, focusing on carbon reduction, environmental protection, circular economy initiatives, responsible procurement and social value. Her role centres on translating sustainability commitments into practical, on-the-ground actions that support both the UK's energy transition and OCU Group's wider sustainability ambitions.

Rhealyn Mugri MSc, Founder, Regeneration – School of Sustainable Projects - LinkedIn

Rhealyn helps project professionals turn sustainability principles into practical delivery. She trains practitioners to the GPM Certified Sustainable Project Professional standard and supports learners through live, community-focused projects. With experience in project management, education, digital sustainability and cross-cultural leadership, Rhealyn brings a practical perspective on embedding sustainability throughout the project lifecycle. Her work focuses on helping project professionals move beyond theory, strengthen their decision-making and apply sustainability within real organisational settings. She is particularly interested in how responsible technology, ethics and stakeholder behaviour shape sustainable project outcomes.

Roger Cohen, Founder,  C2Zero and Real Carbon Price Index - LinkedIn

Roger is the founder of C2Zero and the Real Carbon Price Index, helping organisations and individuals take practical action on residual emissions. With a background spanning engineering, academia, finance and climate technology, Roger focuses on turning carbon management into measurable climate action rather than symbolic commitments. His work explores how businesses can address operational emissions, reduce greenwashing and make more responsible decisions across their products and services. Roger brings a practical perspective on the gap between sustainability awareness and implementation, sharing lessons on what organisations can do when emissions cannot yet be fully removed through existing project and operational approaches.

Hosts

Hugo Minney, APM Sustainability Interest Network, Lead volunteer - LinkedIn

An accomplished chair and executive director, bringing curiosity, dynamism and decades of experience including with Cap Gemini. Minney’s strategic change work, based on solid benefits management, has changed the law to keep families together; reduced A&E (Emergency Room) visits by 1 million; improved health and well-being across a region; and saved £10 million in 12 weeks for an electricity distributor in UK. He has led organisations and alliances of organisations, and steered implementation of challenging strategy in complex situations, especially where employees, the public and other stakeholder engagement is vital. Minney is a Committee Member for bsi (British Standards Institute) where he chairs the panel on BS202002 Guide to benefits management in portfolios, programmes and projects, Chartered Manager (CMgr) with a Level 7 Diploma in Leadership and Strategic Management, Chartered Project Professional (ChPP), Change Professional (MChMI), MSP and PRINCE2 qualified and has a PhD in Protein Chemistry (Durham University). Minney specialises in putting a number on difficult benefits (such as sustainability and regeneration, best quality publicly funded healthcare, community development, employee health and wellbeing), and using this to motivate both team members and end-users by reporting what we are achieving together. If your CSR doesn’t show up on the bottom line, you’re doing it wrong!

 

Subodh Vadapally, APM London Network, Stream Lead volunteer - LinkedIn

Subodh is Project and Programme Manager at Generate Sustainable Impact who brings 8+ years of cross-functional experience supporting transformation, sustainability and research-led initiatives across project environments. His work focuses on structured delivery, stakeholder engagement, operational coordination and governance-led approaches within evolving business and transformation contexts. Alongside his day role, he volunteers with APM as Social Media focus stream Lead for the London Network and is also a certified speaker at PMI and Global Ambassador at GPM.