Builders of the Next Economic Infrastructure
We are a multidisciplinary group of former CEOs, academic change makers, systems thinkers, and community leaders.
Leadership
Our leadership brings together decades of experience in company-building, sustainable business, and organizational innovation.
We founded Internality because we saw a gap between the desire of leaders to do good and the systemic constraints that prevent it.
Fred Keller
Co-founder
Fred Keller has spent decades proving that business can build financial, social, and ecological capital at the same time while demonstrating that doing so is strategy, not charity. He founded Cascade Engineering in 1973 with six employees and built a company where more than 20% of today's workforce has been there over 20 years. Cascade earned the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership and pioneered programs like Welfare to Career, which has moved roughly 800 individuals off public assistance and into stable employment. Fred served 17 years as Senior Visiting Lecturer at Cornell's Johnson School and as the inaugural Executive-in-Residence at Michigan Ross's Center for Positive Organizations. He chaired the U.S. Department of Commerce Manufacturing Council under Presidents Bush and Obama and led the W.K. Kellogg Foundation board during a 14-year tenure. Co-founder of Talent 2025 and a trustee of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, Fred has spent a career building the coalitions that make systems change actually happen.
Stuart Hart
Co-founder
Stuart Hart is one of the world's foremost authorities on business strategy, sustainability, and global poverty. S.C. Johnson Professor Emeritus at Cornell and Professor in Residence at Michigan's Erb Institute, he helped launch the corporate sustainability movement with his McKinsey Award-winning 1997 Harvard Business Review article "Beyond Greening," and reframed how business thinks about serving the poor with his landmark 2002 piece "The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid." His book Capitalism at the Crossroads was named one of Cambridge University's 50 top sustainability books of all time. With over 50,000 Google Scholar citations and advisory work spanning GE, Unilever, and the World Economic Forum, Hart has been catalyzing systems change for decades.
Advisory Board
The University of Vermont, Grossman School of Business; Former Senior Executive, Casella
If you believe in something, you help it change. I believe Internality is building a collaborative pathway for systemic change, helping capitalism find new purpose and direction in solving the world's most pressing challenges.
Executive Chairman, Factorial Energy; Former Chairman and CEO, Panasonic Corporation, North America
We live in a society where the economic system, which worked so well for many years, has left far too many behind. Internality confronts this reality and focuses on how people think, connect and align at a deeper level. It’s about clarity, trust and purpose and how to close the economic gaps by making progress more inclusive and grounded in real understanding.
Charles Field Knight Dean and Harold Bierman Jr Distinguished Professor of Management, Cornell University
Can profit and purpose coexist? I believe it can. Capitalism is more than the relentless pursuit of profit without bounds. There is a growing recognition that capitalism can adapt and businesses can evolve to serve as agents of positive change. Systems change is hard because all human systems are inherently complex. Internality is a movement I believe can catalyze systems change transforming capitalism to work better for more people and everywhere.
Transformation Catalyst, Author of "DreamMakers Innovating for the Greater Good", Storyteller, Speaker, DreamMakers.org
The time has come to co-create an economic system that can work for all, where innovating for the greater good is not optional, but essential to the survival and flourishing of humanity and the planet; Internality provides a pathway and a platform to that end.
Harvard Senior Fellow /MIT Former Professor and Founder of MIT Legatum Center/ Founder of Grameenphone/ Co-Founder of Money in Motion LLC
Internalizing the costs of an action is a very important part of a line of progress for any actor—be it a corporation, a nation or a person. Very often the actor gets away internalizing the benefits and externalizing the costs. I am very eager to search for ways whereby the actor internalizes the costs, not just the benefits.
Our experience spans:
Private Enterprise
Privately held and family-owned enterprises across sectors.
Complex Operations
Manufacturing, services, and complex supply chains.
Research & Design
Academic research and applied systems design.
Beyond Shareholder Primacy
Remaking Capitalism for a Sustainable Future
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Stuart L. Hart, Stanford Business Books
The intellectual foundation for Internality is laid out in Stuart Hart's book Beyond Shareholder Primacy: Remaking Capitalism for a Sustainable Future (Stanford Business Books, 2024), which traces the historical cycles of economic reformation and makes the case for why privately held companies are uniquely positioned to lead the next transformation.
The Triple Bottom Line
People, Planet, Profit
Fred Keller, Founder of Cascade Engineering
Fred Keller has spent decades proving that business can build financial, social, and ecological capital at the same time - and that doing so is strategy, not charity. As founder of Cascade Engineering, he pioneered the Triple Bottom Line approach, demonstrating that a commitment to people and planet drives lasting profitability and positions privately held companies to lead the next economic transformation.