Keyot: Meet the Execution-Focused Business Transformation Practitioners

At Keyot, we first screen and recruit passionate young individuals from more than 2,000 colleges across the country. We then lead them through a rigorous 12-month training program to shape them into the successful professionals of the future with the necessary skill sets they need to succeed. The final, and arguably most important, step in our process is ‘The Match’. We have become very skilled at connecting the dots between our Crew212 consultants and our clients. By placing these Crew212 consultants at the right assignment at a client, and mentoring them for up to two years, these young people are thriving in careers in which they likely wouldn’t have had access. At the end of their engagement clients have the option to hire them as full-time employees in different roles including business analysts, project managers, data analysts, scrum masters, and several others.

Anjie: As a women-owned firm, it has always been our mission to support and increase the number of women and minorities in business and technology leadership roles. Crew212 enables us to achieve that goal by hiring, training, and mentoring deserving candidates from a variety of backgrounds. In addition, the Crew212 program enables businesses to create a diverse and balanced workforce with the right mix of experienced and gifted young professionals. We are passionate about helping our clients build the future leaders of their organizations.

Could you provide insight into your typical client engagement process?

Anjie: As we lead clients through transformational changes, one of our primary goals is to help them to institutionalize those changes. We don’t want to create dependency on us, rather we want our clients to continue to thrive long after our engagement ends. We first listen to clients’ goals to understand their business processes and hurdles, then we craft a solution based on our significant institutional knowledge and agile processes.

Could you share with us a customer success story?

Anjie: We work primarily in the financial services space. Most of our client base consists of banks, insurance companies and money movement service providers who need to establish a strong digital footprint to serve their clients better and run their daily operations without interruptions.

One Fortune 50 financial services provider in the U.S. reached out to Keyot for help bringing agile into their organization so that they might embrace a more customer-centric mindset. They had previously worked with other consultants who had only equipped them with heavy-handed methodologies, which delayed their speed to market initiatives. As a result, they never got the desired outcome.

We believe in starting small. We began by partnering with a few very innovative leaders, applying an agile mindset on one or two projects. Then we brought in Keyot’s agile immersion training for entire teams and began using the newly trained talent to launch projects. After conducting six such training sessions, we followed a "train the trainer" approach and enabled the client to take over the training. Today, they have successfully launched over 400 teams.

What does the future hold for Keyot?

Laura: We always get fantastic feedback from our clients. Such positive responses always encourage us to innovate further. Today, we are successfully serving clients in 12 states across the country. Looking forward, we are making plans to expand our reach into new markets.

Anjie: Keyot has become a trusted resource for transforming organizations, filling gaps in strategic roles within business, technology and security functions, and helping clients overcome some of their biggest workforce challenges. Our focus on enabling clients to achieve their most important goals is one of our key differentiators, and we believe it will help us reach the aggressive growth goals we’ve set for Keyot.