REASERCHER•PROFESSOR•AUTHOR
From extraction to regeneration.
The work of asking, again and again, what each project, classroom, and organization might choose to leave behind.
Lisa Hammond, DBA, is a researcher, consultant, and writer whose work asks how organizations can move from extraction to regeneration. She is adjunct faculty at the University of South Florida's Muma College of Business and Honors College, and Principal Consultant at BHER Group, advising on regenerative project management and biomimicry-informed governance. She is completing an MS in Biomimicry at Arizona State University under Dr. Dayna Baumeister.
Her forthcoming books with Routledge and Edward Elgar introduce two interrelated frameworks: Regenerative Project Management and Rewilding Business Education. She is also at work on her first memoir, Sally's Pond. She lives on wooded acreage in Weeki Wachee, Florida.
Professional Recognition:
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Outstanding Reviewer Award, British Academy of Management (2025).
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Reviewer Recognition Bronze Award, Informing Science Institute (2025).
ABOUT
A practice of thinking with living systems.
A WORKING QUESTION
"The metrics by which we measure project success have quietly shaped what we believe is possible to build.
-FROM REGENERATIVE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
COMING SOON
Upcoming Books
FORTHCOMING • 2027
Regenerative
Project Management
What if projects were not just delivered, but lived with?
Regenerative Project Management challenges the discipline's century-long focus on cost, schedule, and scope by asking a different question: what should this project leave behind? Drawing on biomimicry, ecological economics, and a decade of empirical research with sustainability practitioners, the book introduces a four-gate decision architecture that orients project work toward living-systems outcomes. It is a practical book, with case studies and tools, but its argument is more fundamental: that the metrics by which we measure project success have quietly shaped what we believe is possible to build.
PUBLISHER
Routledge
FORM
Hardcover • Ebook
FORTHCOMING • 2027
Rewilding
Business Education
For more than a century, business schools have taught students to see organizations as machines to be optimized and natural systems as inputs to be priced.
Rewilding Business Education makes the case that this frame is no longer adequate and may never have been. Drawing on a longitudinal dataset of more than 700 business students, interviews with thought leaders including Dayna Baumeister, Satish Kumar, and Nancy Landrum, and a decade teaching graduate and undergraduate project management, the book offers a curriculum and a posture. It asks what business education would look like if we treated economies as ecosystems and educators as gardeners rather than engineers.
PUBLISHER
Edward Elgar
FORM
Hardcover • Ebook
MEMOIR • IN PROGRESS
Sally's Pond
When the pond at the center of my childhood disappeared beneath a housing development, I lost more than a place. I lost a way of seeing the world. After more than three decades in corporate leadership, I discovered the concepts of regeneration and stewardship and finally found language for what I had sensed as a child. Sally's Pond is a memoir about memory, belonging, loss, and the long journey back to the wisdom of the living world.
FORM
Hardcover • Ebook
RESEARCH
Research Themes
Regenerative Project Management (RPM) asks what project management would look like if it took living-systems outcomes as seriously as cost and schedule. The framework introduces a seven-phase lifecycle grounded in biomimicry's Life's Principles, repositioning the discipline from the delivery of artifacts to the stewardship of regenerative outcomes. A book-length treatment is forthcoming with Routledge.
Regenerative Project Management
Rewilding Business Education (RWBE) asks what business curricula would look like if they treated economies as ecosystems. The pedagogical architecture integrates biomimicry, contemplative pedagogy, and Indigenous relational epistemologies, moving business education beyond extraction-oriented frameworks toward formation in ecological literacy. A book proposal on RWBE is currently under review with Edward Elgar.
Rewilding Business Education
The Starling Model, drawn from a study of distributed coordination during the Oklahoma COVID-19 response involving more than 500 organizations, offers a murmuration-based alternative to command-and-control governance. Building on Hammond's doctoral research on Commander's Intent and large-scale coordination, the model articulates how shared intent, local autonomy, and simple coordination rules can produce coherent action at scale without centralized control.
The Starling
Model
The Economics of Return explores how regenerative materials and end-of-life value recovery can become both environmentally and economically viable. Building on Hammond's Nature-Inspired Circular Economy Model (NICEM), the work examines pathways toward circular value creation in industrial systems. It introduces the Regenerative Materiality Maturity Gradient as a framework for understanding how organizations progress toward regenerative material practices.
The Economics of Return
Biogenesis is an emerging line of inquiry that extends biomimicry by asking what it would mean for human systems to participate in biological and technical cycles rather than merely imitate them. The work is currently in development.
Biogenesis
(Emerging)
Across these inquiries, the Taproot Principle, drawn from the longleaf pine, serves as Hammond's conceptual anchor. It expresses the conviction that durable systems, whether ecological, organizational, or pedagogical, require deep roots before broad reach. The principle threads through each strand of the research and grounds the broader program in a commitment to long-horizon, place-based scholarship.
The Taproot
Principle
© Lisa Hammond, BHER Group LLC, 2026
RESEARCH
Research Themes
Hammond's research advances four interconnected strands of inquiry, with a fifth line emerging. Across all five, the Taproot Principle serves as a unifying conceptual anchor.
Hammond's research advances four interconnected strands of inquiry, with a fifth line emerging. Across all five, the Taproot Principle serves as a unifying conceptual anchor.