Grow positive impact and commercial success hand-in-hand
If you’re stuck on anything impact related, we’ll help you find a way forward
We work with business leaders who want to make a meaningful impact on the world through their business. They’ve already started on the journey (often by becoming a B Corp) and now want to make real progress.
Hannah understands the tension between profit and purpose.
A sustainability professional who also lives in the real world.
Myfanwy Beynon-Pollitt, Partner and Head of Governance & Sustainability, BKL
When it comes to making meaningful impact, the leaders we work with often face these common challenges
FEEL STUCK
You’ve started your impact journey and done the obvious things, but what comes next is unclear.
IMPACT FEELS SEPARATE
Impact feels disconnected from your core business – like it’s pulling in a different direction to commercial priorities.
WANT TO WRITE AN IMPACT REPORT
You want to communicate your impact but don’t know where to start, and you’re worried about greenwashing.
SOMETHING’S PLAYING ON YOUR MIND
There’s a specific challenge you’ve been turning over for weeks, and you know it needs a fresh pair of eyes.
Four ways to help you get unstuck
IMPACT BY DESIGN
We help you design impact into your purpose, strategy, business model, governance and culture, so commercial growth and positive impact go hand-in-hand.
Impact shifts from a side project to a key ingredient of growth, loyalty and legacy.
This work also helps you meet the purpose requirements of the new B Corp Standards.
IMPACT ROADMAP
A practical one-day working session with your leadership team. You’ll leave clear on your priorities, the steps to take and the investment needed.
IMPACT REPORT
We take the load off and help you create an engaging impact report that builds trust and buy-in, without greenwashing.
It’s a chance to reflect, learn and share your journey.
Why work with us?
Just like you, we want to make a meaningful impact on the world through our business. And we know a strategy is only words on a page until people start doing things differently.
COMMERCIAL EXPERIENCE
Keartland & Co was founded by Hannah Keartland, a Chartered Accountant who trained at Deloitte. She’s led both Finance & Operations and Innovation functions, including as Innovation Director at Cancer Research UK.
We understand the tension between impact ambition and commercial reality – and how to navigate it.
THE PEOPLE SIDE OF CHANGE
It’s easy to focus all your time on what you want to do.
We put as much focus on how, because change happens when people’s habits and decisions change.
THE RIGHT TEAM FOR EACH PROJECT
We bring in experts from our carefully curated network.
We only work with people who are brilliant at what they do, passionate about responsible business and a pleasure to work with.
Hannah sits on ICAEW’s Sustainability Committee and helps shape responsible business standards nationally through ICAEW and BSI. She’s also a B Corp Consultant, trained by B Lab UK on the new B Lab Standards. And we’re a certified B Corp ourselves.
Super session with Hannah and Nicky and a group of passionate people who care from across our business. We mapped out all the brilliant work that’s already happening (a lot), and where there is the ambition to do more. Importantly we discussed what we should not do. All whilst being mindful of our collective capacity and the constraints of working in a busy, commercial, B2B service business.
Jessica Mullen, Chief Innovation & Design Officer, CreateFuture
Working with Hannah and Nicky was a seamless and rewarding experience. They managed the whole approach ensuring the deliverables were achieved within the timescales needed. They always turned up friendly and engaged, offering calm wisdom allowing us to grapple with the topic in a supported and constructive fashion.
Richard Bryan, General Counsel, Cambridge & Counties Bank
Hannah and Nicky spent time listening and really understood our culture and how we can create a Responsible Business strategy that is embedded across the whole firm and works for us as a business. With Hannah and Nicky working together I felt we had both the support and challenge to deliver and stretch our strategy.
Fenella Martin-Redman, Partner, Saffery
What I like about Hannah is that she is not just preaching theory. She understands how a business works and the various layers of priorities that exist in a business. She always offers pragmatic, practical and actionable guidance that is easy to implement.
Ioana Hardy, Founder & Managing Director, Impacters Group
Working with Hannah and Nicky has been eye opening, challenging and extremely rewarding, delivering a key step change in our thinking around sustainability goals and their wider impact on the company, our teams and stakeholders.
Tom Bailey, CIO, WGC
Not sure where to start?
Book a free 30-minute conversation. It’s for CEOs and senior leaders, and you’ll leave clear on the first step to take your impact to the next level.
Even if we don’t end up working together, we’d like to be your first port of call when you have an impact question. We’ll help directly, or point you to someone who can.
Or email us at hello@keartland.co, and sign up to Better Business Bites, our monthly email for leaders building impact into their business.