The Partnership
Keystone for teams
Targeted strategic advisory for your senior leaders, in partnership with you.
Limited to 36 leaders across the partnership.
Keystone for teams is targeted strategic advisory for your senior sustainability leaders, elevating their personal, enterprise and industry leadership. Each of your designated leaders works with Karimah Hudda, a former in-house senior sustainability executive, so the whole team 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 SENIOR LEADERS MUST ELEVATE NOW The stakes are higher than ever. A senior leader's success now comes down to one thing: how effectively they influence the business and the industry.
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 senior leaders are exceptional experts. Our work together turns that expertise into enterprise and industry leadership.
Today
Subject Matter Experts
Known for depth, consulted for answers, anchored in their own function.As Keystone Leaders
Enterprise and Industry Leaders
Known for judgment, shaping decisions across the business and industry, 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: their deepest why, their clarity, and how it shapes the way they operate the matrix and their teams.
Enterprise Leadership
How they lead the whole business, not just their function: stakeholder strategy, working with P&L holders, and the storytelling that builds alignment for critical moments.
Industry Leadership
How they lead beyond their company: the forums, networks, and voice that benefit the enterprise now, and build an industry profile that outlasts any role.
THE KEYSTONE DIFFERENCE
A specialist senior corporate sustainability coach and strategic advisor, in one
Coach: Helps them find their own answers, through questions, reflection, and space.
Strategic advisor: Helps them understand how the business and industry really work, and sharpens their mindset, skillset and toolset: stronger narrative, sharper stakeholder strategy, deeper industry engagement.
THE KEYSTONE EXPERIENCE
An annual bespoke partnership designed to meet the leader’s and their organization’s goals
The year starts with one conversation: what matters most now, and the one to three focus areas the year will hold. We build from their development plan, or build one together.
Where desired, we open three-way with the leader's manager, so the year serves one shared direction.
A monthly session with Karimah is the core. The cadence flexes for the big moments: a major presentation, budget season, a reorganization, a new or newly promoted leader’s first year.
Between sessions: WhatsApp access, and quick reviews of live materials.
VIP experiences place them in rooms that matter: New York Climate Week, ChangeNOW in Paris.
Progress is reviewed with you, on your cadence.
THE KEYSTONE AMBITION