For sustainability leaders
Your sustainability team keeps hitting walls. This is the thought partner that helps them figure out why—and what to do next.
Most sustainability initiatives don't stall because people don't care. They stall because the human barriers are harder to see than the technical ones. Built on 25 years of implementation science and real-world sustainability leadership, the Real Change Partner helps you diagnose what's really getting in the way and identify the next move most likely to create momentum.
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Methodology by Dr. Jacqueline Kerr · Ph.D.
Behavioral Scientist · TEDx Speaker · HBR Contributor
The problem
Most sustainability initiatives don't fail because the strategy was wrong.
They fail because the people side of change is harder than anyone expected.
A manager agrees in every meeting but never follows through. A pilot works beautifully in one department but nobody else adopts it. A stakeholder says they support the initiative, but something keeps slowing progress down.
I've spent 25 years helping leaders navigate these situations. One pattern appears again and again: the technical solution is usually visible. The human barriers are not.
Who actually needs to move? What are they worried about? Are they resistant, overwhelmed, unconvinced, or simply focused on something else? What is the smallest step that would create momentum?
Those are the questions that determine whether an initiative moves forward or stalls.
That's what this tool was built to help you uncover.
How it works
A diagnostic conversation that ends with a plan you can act on.
Most AI tools jump straight to solutions. This one starts with diagnosis. The Real Change Partner asks the same kinds of questions I ask when helping leaders work through stalled initiatives. Together, you move beyond the presenting problem and uncover what's really getting in the way.
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Describe what’s stuck
A stakeholder who won't engage. A project that has lost momentum. A team that's doing all the work without seeing results. Just describe what's happening in your own words.
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Look underneath the surface
The first explanation is rarely the whole story. The conversation helps you explore the stakeholder dynamics, competing priorities, hidden assumptions, and implementation barriers that may be driving the problem.
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Identify the next move
Not the biggest move. Not the ideal move. The move most likely to work given where people are right now.
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Leave with a plan
Every session ends with a written summary of the challenge, the barriers you've uncovered, and the specific actions you've committed to taking. Something you can act on immediately and revisit later.
“It was like having Jacqueline in the room challenging my assumptions and helping me think through the problem.”
For individual sustainability leaders
For when you need someone to think it through with.
Directors, heads of sustainability, coordinators, consultants navigating implementation alone.
Pricing
Free during beta
Monthly plans are coming — early users keep free access while we refine the product together.
Start your first free sessionSustainability leaders spend a surprising amount of time carrying challenges alone.
You may be responsible for influencing people you don't manage. Building support without authority. Keeping momentum alive when priorities shift. Trying to understand why something that looked straightforward has suddenly become complicated.
Sometimes you need a sounding board before the next meeting, the next conversation, or the next decision. The Real Change Partner was built for those moments.
It's not a search engine for sustainability information. It's a thought partner trained to help you diagnose implementation challenges, understand stakeholder dynamics, and identify practical next steps.
You can have the conversation you can't always have elsewhere. The conversation where you're frustrated. Unsure. Stuck. Worried you're missing something.
Every session helps you uncover what's really getting in the way, build a plan you can act on, and increase your confidence before taking the next step. Because sustainable change rarely depends on having all the answers. It depends on knowing what to do next.
“This AI partner asked provocative questions to reframe the issue. Before delivering a verdict, it was asking the right questions to understand the entire picture. Once it did, it kept me accountable by prompting the exact workflow, who will do this, when will they do it, when will they deliver it.”
“It seemed to understand context better than usual tools and also seemed more like talking to Jacqueline.”
For sustainability leaders and teams
Your team gets support. You get your time back.
You can't be in every room. When your team hits a wall—a stakeholder who won't engage, a project that has stalled, a difficult conversation they don't know how to navigate—they often need support in the moment, not next week's one-to-one.
The Real Change Partner extends the kind of coaching, diagnosis, and problem-solving conversations that leaders rarely have time to provide every day. Your team receives on-demand support when they need it. You receive insight into recurring patterns that may require leadership attention.
The goal isn't to replace managers. It's to help managers spend less time troubleshooting individual challenges and more time leading strategically.
What your team gets
- On-demand implementation support
- Help navigating stakeholder resistance
- Diagnostic conversations that uncover root causes
- Written action plans and accountability summaries
- A tool configured to your organization's context
What you get
- Visibility into recurring implementation barriers
- Monthly insights and pattern summaries
- Better support for emerging leaders
- Less firefighting and more strategic focus
- A team that keeps moving forward
“This is the best AI use case I have seen. It helps people think through the human side of change in a way other tools simply don't.”
For teams
Configured to your organization, with monthly insight reviews led by Jacqueline
What sustainability leaders are saying
Real responses from beta users.
“I felt it analyzed the problem correctly and considered the sticky personnel situation I presented. It did help me assess my role in the dilemma. I like that it gave me a tangible plan so I felt in control of the situation.”
“This is a basic difference from a generic AI, who immediately spits out answers without making the effort to understand the deeper context.”
“Really appreciate the human and conversational response and detailed step-by-step guidance.”
“I think this would enable me to do projects in a more effective way sooner, with less iterations.”
About
Built by someone who has spent 25 years helping change happen.
Dr. Jacqueline Kerr has spent her career studying and supporting the human side of change. As one of the world's most-cited implementation scientists, she has worked with leaders across sectors to understand why important initiatives stall, what helps people move forward, and how organizations build lasting change.
Her work has trained hundreds of leaders, informed large-scale sustainability and public health initiatives, and helped organizations navigate the challenges that arise when people—not technology—determine success.
The Real Change Partner brings together implementation science, motivational interviewing, behavior change, and lessons learned from hundreds of real-world sustainability challenges. It's designed to make experienced thought partnership available whenever leaders need it.
For situations that require a deeper conversation, Jacqueline also offers a complimentary 30-minute problem-solving session.
Try it
What's your challenge?
Tell the Real Change Partner what's stuck. A stakeholder who won't move. A project that has lost momentum. A team struggling to gain traction. Start a free session and see what it uncovers. Every conversation is tailored to your specific situation.
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