Lessons from Highlands College Café, Jersey

In This Episode of Regen on Purpose, Karen Gray introduced a project at Highlands College in Jersey that replaced single-use takeaway packaging with compostable alternatives.

Seven years later, she reconnects with Chef Patrick Hoggs, who runs the college café, to explore what happened next. Together they discuss what worked, the operational challenges behind maintaining sustainable initiatives, and why good environmental ideas often struggle in real-world settings.

This episode offers practical insights for leaders and organisations trying to move sustainability from pilot projects into lasting change.

Why do organisations working on projects, programmes, and digital transformation often feel incredibly busy yet still struggle to deliver?

In this episode of the Regen on Purpose Podcast, Karen Gray explores a common challenge in project management and organisational transformation: the gap between activity and real progress.

Drawing on experience working across complex transformation programmes, Karen shares why projects drift, why technology teams are often brought in too late, and why capacity and focus are the real constraints.

Learn how leaders can design organisations that finish work, build momentum, and deliver results.

Is future performance really a technology challenge — or a capability one?

Organisations are investing heavily in AI.
In digital platforms.
In automation.

But technology doesn’t deliver performance.

People do.

And people don’t automatically keep pace with accelerating change.

Capability has to be built — deliberately.

In Episode 5 of Regen on Purpose, Colin Sparkes and I explore a critical shift:

Capability used to mean performing well today.

Now it means being ready to perform tomorrow.

That’s the move from static skills
to dynamic adaptability.

And here’s the tension:

When pressure rises, development is often the first thing to pause.

“Not enough time.”
“Not enough budget.”

But capability doesn’t stay neutral.

It’s either strengthening —
or eroding.

Future performance isn’t secured by tools alone.

It’s secured by leaders who design organisations that learn, adapt, and evolve.

Stronger organisations don’t happen by accident.

They’re designed.

🎙 Episode 5 — Building Capability — is live.