Who we are
Beth Keenan
I feel a deep sense of responsibility to share what I have learned about bringing longstanding, meaningful change forward. It starts with leaders taking the responsibility to know who they are, what they want, and how to achieve it.
I know what it feels like to be in sheer survival mode — and to have a sense that there’s got to be a better way. Knowing how to care for who you are sounds selfish to many, I trust it is selfless.
With every phase of my career, I was gathering the knowledge and experience that now allows me to support and challenge leaders in living a fulfilled life. My journey allowed me to gain mastery of considering the full context while diving deep into the various aspects that create a greater whole. From my beginning in branding to my time serving as COO of a multinational firm, I discovered how to connect the intangible to the tangible — our thinking and feeling to our actions — for the sake of allowing our full selves to come forward.
Whether today is about taking a small action to get the ball rolling or a big one in changing the world, I look forward to talking with you about being your guide on this part of your journey.
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Kara Wenger
I’ve come to believe that the greatest strategies, visions and plans can’t succeed if people – how they work, what they want and need – aren’t taken into consideration.
I spent the first phase of my career driving strategic people topics and change initiatives as a management consultant and HR leader. Over the years, I became inspired by changemakers: people who strove to go beyond the status quo in favor of the greater good. I helped to grow the Circle of Intrapreneurs, mobilizing and supporting social intrapreneurs around the world, and led two corporate delegations to the One Young World youth leadership summit. I also co-founded and led a global corporate grassroots movement focused on generational inclusion, sparking systemic change in this space.
Through my own experience (including juggling my passion for intrapreneurial work with new parenthood), and in connecting with others, I became convinced that changemakers need more support in doing important work that makes the world a better place – while also taking care of themselves.
Building on my experience in coaching leaders and changemakers through my various roles, I’m deeply passionate about providing that support. Our efforts to make a difference are needed more than ever. We need to – and can – keep going. And we deserve to enjoy the ride.
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Our story
We met as colleagues in 2014 and were quickly drawn to each other’s desire to challenge the status quo and make a meaningful impact. We stayed connected after both leaving our firm. From different generations, living in different countries and in different stages of life, we navigated our own career paths and significant life milestones, from starting a family (Kara) to supporting aging parents (Beth). Despite these differences, we noticed we were experiencing the same things.
We were seeing incredible people who wanted to make a difference consistently run into challenges that held them back. External challenges related to the systems they were in, and internal challenges related to not fully caring for themselves. We saw lost potential and a loss of enjoyment in their important work.
We also began to see how a more regenerative, connected approach, including a deeper understanding of their full selves, helped them to live fuller, more joyful lives while making the impact they sought. They could not only act more effectively but fuel themselves on an ongoing basis. We also experienced this firsthand in our own journeys to live with intention and make an impact.
The more we saw, the more we felt the need to share our insights more broadly.
After all, the time is now. Like many other changemakers, we feel immense urgency to act, to contribute to bringing systemic change forward. We’re at a unique inflection point in time. We’re facing the need to take action on global challenges at levels of speed and complexity we’ve rarely encountered. We believe what we need to make change possible is around us, and people need the knowledge and tools to know what to do differently.
Eight years after first working together, we decided to team up again, leveraging the breadth of our combined human behavior, business and change management expertise to unlock full potential and systemic change. We’re continually learning, sharing and guiding as we go, drawing on scientific and academic research, fellow practitioners, data, lessons from nature, and our own experiences.
Our wish is that the people who work with us will gain the tools to live their full potential, continually replenish themselves, and make the sustained impact they want – so that they can in turn contribute to a better future while enjoying more as they do. We trust when this happens, we can more than sustain ourselves. We can stay in the difficult, important conversations. We can keep going. And we believe we can change the world.