Research Foundation

The Keystone Model for Organizational Health emerged from graduate research in Sustainable Leadership exploring how organizations can learn from keystone species in natural ecosystems to sustain health amid complexity and change.

Through a sequential, integrated mixed-methods approach—grounded in biomimicry and combining ecological systems theory, leadership scholarship, a keystone species database, qualitative interviews with sustainability leaders, and expert validation—four core mechanisms consistently emerged: Relational Infrastructure, Condition Creation, Dynamic Homeostasis, and Cascade Amplification.

The result is a research-grounded, practice-oriented framework that reframes organizational health as a living-systems outcome—shaped through relationships, enabling conditions, adaptive regulation, and systemic effects.

Published Dissertation

The full research is being published in the University of Wales Trinity Saint David Open Access Research Repository, making it freely available to researchers, practitioners, and students interested in sustainable leadership and organizational health.

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