Journey To Regeneration

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Rob Tod, founder of Allagash Brewing Company, about how a craft brewery can evolve into a model of long-term, community-embedded, and increasingly regenerative business practice. Tod reflects on the early days of the U.S. craft beer movement and his decision to pursue Belgian-style brewing as a way to create something dist...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Vince Kadlubek, co-founder of Meow Wolf, an immersive arts and entertainment company that has grown from a grassroots collective in Santa Fe into a multi-city creative enterprise. The conversation explores how Meow Wolf’s founding ethos—radical collaboration, open participation, and the belief that everyone is creative—has...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Charlie MacGregor, founder and CEO of The Social Hub, about rethinking hospitality as a platform for social and economic value creation. Originally launched as The Student Hotel, the company has evolved into a hybrid model that integrates student housing, hotels, co-working, and community spaces to foster interaction acros...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Robyn O’Brien, food system reform advocate, investor, and author of The Unhealthy Truth and Seeding Innovation. Drawing on her background as a financial analyst covering the food industry, O’Brien explains how structural incentives in capital markets and corporate governance have shaped modern food production, from ingredi...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Christopher Gaffney, CEO of Johnston’s of Elgin, a Scottish textile manufacturer with more than two centuries of history producing luxury cashmere and wool garments. Drawing on his background in manufacturing and finance—and his personal roots in the community where the company operates—Gaffney discusses how Johnston’s int...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Paul Lightfoot, General Manager of Patagonia Provisions and former founder of BrightFarms, about how food can move beyond sustainability to become a cornerstone of a regenerative economy. Lightfoot explains why Patagonia expanded into food as an expression of its core mission, arguing that while apparel can minimize harm,...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Merijn Everaarts, founder of Dopper, the Dutch social enterprise dedicated to ending packaged water. What began as a personal awakening about plastic waste grew into a global movement that combines product design, public activism, corporate partnerships, and policy engagement. Merijn explains how Dopper built its strategy...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Rob Samuels, eighth-generation whiskey maker and Managing Director of Kentucky bourbon brand Maker’s Mark, about embedding regeneration at the core of a global business. Samuels explains how Maker’s Mark connects its stewardship of soil health, grain varietals, water stewardship, and American white oak forestry directly to...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Davide Bollati, Chairman of Davines, about what regeneration means for a global beauty company. Davide reflects on Davines’ evolution from performance-driven cosmetic chemistry toward a regenerative business model grounded in measurement, balance, and long-term purpose. The conversation explores decoupling growth from emis...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Jeff Tkach, CEO of Rodale Institute, about the roots, science, and future of regenerative organic agriculture. Drawing on Rodale’s decades-long research comparing organic and conventional farming systems, Jeff explains why soil health sits at the center of human health, farmer livelihoods, and climate resilience. The conve...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Brita Lundberg and Bryce Lundberg of Lundberg Family Farms, a fourth-generation family business and pioneer of organic and regenerative rice farming. They explain why organic is the baseline, not the endpoint, of responsible agriculture, and how Regenerative Organic Certification deepens commitments to soil health, biodive...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, host Chris Marquis speaks with Salar Shemirani, co-founder and CEO of Regenified, about the difficult work of making “regenerative” mean something concrete in food and agriculture. Shemirani traces his shift from corporate finance to soil health after watching the documentary Kiss the Ground, and explains why he sees regeneration less as a fixed endpoint...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Kresse Wesling, co-founder of Elvis & Kresse, about what it really takes to build a circular business that treats waste not as an inevitability but as a design failure. Wesling reflects on how encountering mountains of end-of-life industrial materials, beginning with decommissioned fire hoses, pushed her toward a model anc...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Christopher Marquis speaks with Ben Mand, CEO of Yerba Madre, about what it means to build a truly regenerative business. Ben introduces Yerba Madre’s model of market-driven regeneration, explaining how commercial success is used to deliver tangible benefits to Indigenous farmers, forest ecosystems, and supply chain partners across South America. The con...

In this episode of Journey to Regeneration, Chris Marquis talks with Paul Young, CEO of Conservation Resources, about what it means to treat forests and farms as living systems rather than extractive assets. Drawing on his background in timber and alternative investments, Paul explains how Conservation Resources built a model that partners with conservation groups and ecologists to meet return tar...

In this episode, host Christopher Marquis is joined by Douglas Lamont, CEO of Tony’s Chocolonely, the Dutch chocolate company born when journalists exposed widespread child labour in West Africa’s cocoa fields and set out to prove a fairer model was possible. Douglas breaks down how Tony’s rebuilt its supply chain around five core sourcing principles—paying a living-income price, long-term contrac...

In this week’s episode, host Christopher Marquis is joined by Chris Turner, Executive Director of B Lab UK, to discuss the evolution of the B Corp movement and what it reveals about the changing expectations of business in the 21st century.  They explore the rise of B Corps in the UK, now numbering around 2,700 companies employing more than 200,000 people, and consider insights from B Lab UK’s Tak...

In this week’s episode, host Christopher Marquis is joined by Ellen Jackowski, Chief Sustainability Officer at Mastercard, to explore how the company is experimenting with ways to support more sustainable consumer choices. Positioned within a payments network that reaches 150 million merchants and billions of cardholders, Mastercard has a vantage point on everyday spending that can help inform how...

In this episode, Professor Chris Marquis is joined by Keith Bearden, CEO of Alter Eco, a pioneering chocolate company that supports smallholder cacao farmers—typically working 12–15 acre plots in Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, and Peru— in transitioning away from risky monocultures toward dynamic agroforestry systems. By interplanting cacao with limes, mangoes, passionfruit, avocados, plantains,...

In this episode, host Christopher Marquis is joined by John Elkington, author, advisor, and originator of the “triple bottom line.” John revisits how that idea took off in the 1990s, and why he later issued a “product recall” to refocus leaders on truly integrating people, planet, and profit. The episode explores his concept of “Green Swans” - system-positive shifts that outpace incremental change...

In this episode, Chris Marquis explores regenerative business practices with Juliet Scott-Croxford, President for the Americas at Brompton Bicycle. Discover how the iconic folding bike company transforms urban mobility through their mission of "urban freedom for happier lives," connecting environmental sustainability with mental health and community design. Juliet reveals Brompton's rejection of t...

In this episode, Chris Marquis welcomes Ana Costa, Vice President for Sustainability and Corporate Affairs at Natura &Co, a pioneering beauty company rooted in Amazon conservation. They explore how Natura's Amazon origins have shaped their belief that regeneration is essential, not optional. Ana reveals how the company embeds regenerative practices across their entire value chain—supporting over 1...

In this episode, host Chris Marquis explores regenerative business practices with two inspiring leaders - Heidi Renata, co-founder of Innovate HQ and Māori entrepreneur, and Lisa Ferguson from The Nature Conservancy. Both guests emphasise that regenerative practices aren't new concepts—they're ancient wisdom being reapplied to modern challenges. Key themes include the importance of building trust,...

Join Chris Marquis and Sir Ronald Cohen, pioneering venture capitalist and co-founder of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, as they explore the transformation of capitalism itself in this latest episode. They explore how we're entering the era of impact capitalism—where companies are valued not just by financial returns, but by their ability to create social and environmental good. S...

In this episode, Christopher is joined by Nigel Topping, former UN Climate Champion for COP26 and one of the UK’s leading climate advocates. Drawing on his experience leading global coalitions like We Mean Business, Nigel shares how radical collaboration and systems leadership can accelerate the pace of change. From aligning business and policy to create positive “ambition loops,” to holding firms...