B Corp Readiness & Compliance for Apparel & Textile Brands
Shari Keller Advisory
B Corp Readiness & Compliance —
Evidence of Good
25 Yrs Jaipur Manufacturing Experience
Founder & Former Textile Factory Owner & CEO, Jaipur (17 Yrs) —
WFTO Guaranteed · US-Based · PhD Anthropologist
A supplier's certification tells you what a factory is supposed to look like.
It rarely tells you what's actually happening on the floor.
Who This Is For
I work with brand founders and operators pursuing B Corp certification — companies that need their governance, labor, and environmental claims to hold up under real, independent audit, not just on paper. My deepest expertise is apparel, textile, and artisan manufacturing, but the core readiness work isn't bound to one industry. I'm not a Life Cycle Assessment or carbon-accounting consultant, and I don't try to be.
Why Work
With Me
I'm Shari Keller. Ph.D.
Both sides of the table.
I've sourced as a brand and been audited as a manufacturer — I know what actually holds up from either side of that relationship.Evidence, not assertions.
A government-tested wastewater system, WFTO Guaranteed audits, licensed export documentation — real records, not talking points.Built for real scrutiny.
I tell you what will survive an actual third-party audit, not just what reads well in a pitch deck.
How I Got Here
In 1999, I co-founded Mehera Shaw as a US-based fashion brand with a mission to be a force for good in the fashion industry, sourcing from a Jaipur manufacturing partner.After eight years working through a third-party manufacturer and seeing where its labor and environmental practices fell short of fair trade labor standards, I founded our own manufacturing company in Jaipur in 2007 — vertically integrated, with our own stitching and block-printing units, licensed for export.Over the next 17 years as founder and CEO, I grew the company to take on international custom manufacturing orders as well, and achieved WFTO Guaranteed status. I stepped down as CEO in 2024 and consulted for the company through 2026.Before Jaipur, I completed doctoral fieldwork in Hyderabad as a Fulbright scholar, studying how communities navigate real economic and social pressure, not just their official account of themselves. Both that work and 25 years across the sourcing and manufacturing sides of Jaipur textiles taught me the same thing: the real signal is almost never in the paperwork.
Mehera Shaw
WFTO Guaranteed member
50+ person team across design, production, and export — Jaipur, RajasthanVertically integrated production — in-house stitching and hand block-printing units, no dependency on third-party subcontractors for core production.Licensed exporter status — full customs, compliance, and export documentation for clients across North America and Europe.WFTO Guaranteed member number 1047.Artisan-scale wastewater filtration & rainwater harvesting system, designed and built in-house, passed Government of India lab testing.
Engagement Categories
B Corp Readiness & Evidence Review —
Governance, worker treatment, and environmental protocol review scored for whether it would actually survive a real audit interview — not just whether the field is filled in — with a prioritized roadmap to fix what matters most before your official audit.Supply Chain Compliance Advisory: Apparel, Textile & Artisan Manufacturing — My deepest specialization, drawing on 17 years building compliant production systems in Jaipur, plus 8 more sourcing from the region as a US brand founder.Sourcing Strategy Review — Evaluating and strengthening the supplier relationships you already have. (Not new-manufacturer sourcing or matching.)Impact Storytelling & Communications —
Turning real operational evidence — audits, certifications, on-the-ground practice — into external communications that actually hold up, not marketing language that overstates what's true.
B Corp Readiness & Compliance —
Evidence of Good
B Corp Readiness & Evidence Review
Supply Chain Compliance Advisory
Sourcing Strategy Review
Impact Storytelling & Communications