WE ARE KEEN
We put people and their ideas in motion.
A connected approach.
Most agencies are more about language and design than people and strategy. We span them with an integrated approach that sets us apart. It means we can go inside their organizations, empowering their leaders and teams, even as we help them engage with the outside world.
The result? We can help connect and align your leaders, teams, messages, and initiatives, setting you up for enduring impact.
Partnership at the core.
We don’t rain down strategies, recommendations, and storylines from a distance and then leave. We don’t operate transactionally, preferring to get deeply in relationship and context with our clients. Then we adapt everything we do to their unique needs.
Our work is intensely personal, which is how we like it. We are a small and dedicated team that seeks to be in profound partnership with our clients.
OUR CLIENTS
We work with innovators and leaders.
OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM
I help leaders become undeniable.
Krim Stephenson
Principal
Most leaders are more capable than they believe — and more self-limiting than they realize. My job is to help them close that gap.
I’m an executive coach, storyteller, and the founder of Keen. I work at the intersection of two disciplines that most people treat as separate: the inner work of leadership — understanding who you are under pressure, what drives you, what gets in your way — and the outer work of communication: learning to tell your story, own a room, and move people.
That combination is unusual. And for the leaders I work with, it’s the thing that changes everything.
I hold an Integral Coach® certification from New Ventures West and serve as a coach with Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, working with faculty and MBA students. I studied English at Princeton and hold an MBA from USC’s Marshall School of Business.
Catherine Song
Director of Client Services
I seek to empower and support clients by bringing them into a new perspective and context.
I drive strategic initiatives, change projects, and complex implementations across a variety of industries including high-tech, communications, financial and retail. I help clients find innovative new ways to transform the way they connect, engage, and serve their customers through creative project design and the application of new technology and processes.
A former manager in Accenture’s Marketing Consulting Practice, I have worked with senior leaders at Microsoft, Boeing, NetApp, Cisco, Chase, SAP, T-Mobile, PayPal and Symantec. I understand the tensions and opportunities associated with going from idea to reality, and help clients develop and roll out strategies that work for their entire organization.
I hold a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from University of Washington.