Empactful Advisors Expands to Help Corporate Affairs Leaders Deliver Measurable Impact
- Lorna Malja
- Jan 8
- 2 min read
Guided by Kirsten Thorne, former Chevron Chief Strategist of Corporate Affairs, the new practice empowers organizations to align, execute, and transform faster.
Denver, CO - January 8, 2026 - Empactful Advisors, a leading strategy execution consulting firm known for helping some of the world’s most complex organizations deliver results faster, today announced the launch of its new Corporate Affairs Practice. Building on proven successes across healthcare, energy, mining, and other industries, the practice will help organizations reimagine their corporate affairs functions and embed execution excellence into every layer of strategy and planning. Kirsten Thorne, long-time Chief Strategist of Corporate Affairs for Chevron joins as lead advisor as of January, 2026.
Corporate affairs teams are increasingly tasked with driving business-critical outcomes from managing stakeholder expectations and navigating policy landscapes to shaping corporate reputation and advancing ESG commitments. Yet too often, these functions lack the structure, clarity, and alignment needed to deliver impact.
“Every business decision today is a public one,” said Jimmy Leppert, Co-Founder of Empactful Advisors. “Organizations need corporate affairs teams that don’t just manage reputation but actively accelerate strategy. Our new practice equips leaders with the frameworks, processes, and execution discipline to do exactly that.”
The Empactful Advisors Corporate Affairs Practice will focus on four core areas:
Strategy Execution Excellence - closing the gap between ambitious corporate affairs strategies and measurable outcomes.
Function Revamp and Redesign - restructuring corporate affairs to better connect across legal, operations, HSE, government relations, and communications.
Planning & Portfolio Alignment - prioritizing initiatives that matter most, while streamlining governance and decision-making.
Embedded Execution - introducing systems, routines, and accountability that turn strategy into results.
Empactful Advisors’ methodology has already transformed leading organizations by clarifying priorities, accelerating decision-making, and ensuring execution keeps pace with ambition. In healthcare, the firm has helped large systems reset strategies to balance patient outcomes with financial sustainability. In energy and mining, Empactful Advisors has guided companies through transitions in ESG, regulatory complexity, and market competitiveness.
“We were being challenged by some of our competitors who understood, reacted to, and actioned vulnerabilities better than we did,” said Kirsten Thorne, former Chief Strategist, Corporate Affairs at Chevron, who sponsored the organization’s transformation project with Empactful Advisors. “Empactful helped us move from tracking activities to driving outcomes and they did it in a way that energized our teams.”
With this new practice, Empactful Advisors reinforces its position as a partner of choice for organizations seeking to navigate complexity, deliver growth, and build resilience.
About Empactful Advisors
Empactful Advisors is a strategy execution consulting firm that helps organizations align, accelerate, and achieve measurable results in 90 days or less. With deep expertise across industries including healthcare, energy, mining and financial services, the firm partners with executives and boards to close performance gaps, revamp critical functions, and build execution-ready organizations.
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