APM Sustainability and APM London Networks: Sustainability in projects: What actually works?

Sustainability in Projects: What Actually Works? brings together experienced practitioners across regions and industries to explore 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.

Bringing together practitioners with experience across organisational transformation, digital sustainability and operational delivery, this session will focus on 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 will gain perspectives from different sectors and regions while exploring what works in practice and how these lessons can be adapted to their own project environments.

What to Expect

By the end of this webinar attendees will:

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

Benefits of Attending

• Learn practical approaches that can be applied immediately within projects.
• Understand how sustainability can support project outcomes rather than compete with delivery objectives.
• Gain international practitioner perspectives from consultancy, education and operational sustainability.
• Develop greater confidence when discussing sustainability with clients, sponsors and stakeholders.

Date:

Time:

Venue:
Online webinar / Zoom

Organisers:
APM Sustainability Interest Network and APM London Network

CPD:
1.00

Cost:
Non member: Free
Member: Free

Who should attend: 

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

APM Body of Knowledge 8th edition

1.1.3 Organisational Change
2.3.3 Adoption and Benefits Realisation
3.1.3 Stakeholder Engagement and Influence
3.2 Leadership
3.3 Communication
4.1 Decision Making
4.2 Risk Management
4.3 Value and Benefits

Speaker panel (subject to change)

Karen Formosa, Sustainability and Circularity Advocate, Practical Sustainability - LinkedIn

Karen is a sustainability and circularity advocate, keynote speaker and founder of a sustainability-focused business supporting small organisations. After nearly a decade in finance and business operations, Karen shifted her focus towards helping SMEs make sustainability practical, accessible and achievable. Her approach combines financial discipline, structured delivery and a strong understanding of the human side of organisational change. She develops guidance, learning resources and practical frameworks that help teams move from sustainability ambition to meaningful action. 

Karen is passionate about helping organisations build confidence, capability and long-term impact without making sustainability feel complicated, expensive or disconnected from their everyday priorities.

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.

Host

Subodh Vadapally, APM London Network, Stream Lead volunteer

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.