The Ecosystem


Keystone for teams

Targeted strategic advisory for your whole team, in partnership with you.

Keystone for teams is targeted strategic advisory for a high-stakes team at a high-stakes moment. Each of your senior people works with their own strategic partner, led by Karimah Hudda, a former in-house senior sustainability leader, so the whole team's leadership rises while you stay focused on leading at the top.

FOR YOU

A trusted partner who does this the way you would

You are busy leading the function. We become a trusted partner to you, developing your team the way you would yourself if you had the time. Karimah has held your role, so she knows exactly how, and you stay focused on the work that only you can do.


WHY THE WHOLE TEAM

When the stakes are high, whether sustainability lands or doesn't comes down to how deeply it is built into the business. That is the whole team's work, not one person's.

Two thirds of directors say sustainability should be fully integrated into business strategy. Only about a third say it is today. And the companies that capture the most value are nearly three times as likely to share an organization-wide understanding of it.

BCG, 2023 · MCKINSEY

THE OPPORTUNITY

From Subject Matter Experts to Enterprise Leaders

Your team are exceptional experts. As enterprise leaders, they widen their influence and move the whole business forward on sustainability.

Today

Subject Matter Experts

Known for depth, consulted for answers, anchored in their own function.

As Keystone Leaders

Enterprise Leaders

Known for judgment, shaping decisions across functions, and balancing today with the long term.

Three areas of leadership

The work is built around the one to three priorities each person chooses for the year, across any of these areas: one, two, or all three. It is bespoke to each of them, and adjusts as the year changes.

Personal Leadership

How they lead themselves

Enterprise Leadership

How they lead the whole business, not just their function

Industry Leadership

How they lead beyond their company

EACH PARTNERSHIP

A strategic advisor, for each team member

A strategic advisor does everything a coach does, and then works with each member on the substance itself.

Coach: Helps them find their own answers, through questions, reflection, and space.

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Strategist: Elevating their strategy and messaging to enterprise and board level: strengthening their board materials, and pressure-testing their narrative.

Guide: Decoding the enterprise and the industry: how they really work, and how to use that.

Accelerator: Crafting bespoke tools that activate their shift from subject-matter expert to recognized enterprise and industry leader.

HOW IT WORKS

Per leader, and across the team

  • Each leader has 12 personal advisory sessions across the year, support between sessions, and bespoke tools.

  • Each leader also has premium peer access and priority access to our VIP events.

  • Each conversation stays a confidential, trusted space. You see the collective lift in the team, not the private detail.

  • Shared connection across the team, where it helps.

  • Reviewed regularly with you, so the engagement keeps serving the team's direction.

THE PARTNERSHIP

How we work with you

As a partner, and a personal strategic advisor