Speakers Bio

Dr. Kent M. Keith is the Chief Executive Officer of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership in Indianapolis. He was born in New York and raised in California, Nebraska, Virginia, Rhode Island and Hawaii. He has been an attorney, a state government official, a high tech park developer, a university president, a YMCA executive, and a full-time speaker and author. 

Dr. Keith earned a B.A. in Government from Harvard University, an M.A. in Philosophy and Politics from Oxford University, a Certificate in Japanese from Waseda University, a J.D. from the University of Hawaii, and an Ed. D. from the University of Southern California. He is a Rhodes Scholar.

Dr. Keith is known nationally and internationally as the author of the Paradoxical Commandments, which he first published in 1968 in a booklet for student leaders. During the past seven years he has published four books related to the commandments, including Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments, which became a national bestseller and was translated into 16 languages. He is also the author of The Case for Servant Leadership, published by the Greenleaf Center in 2008.

Over the years, Dr. Keith has given more than 900 conference papers, presentations, and seminars. He has been featured on the front page of The New York Times and in People magazine, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Family Circle. He has appeared on dozens of TV shows and more than 100 radio programs in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. More information about Dr. Keith is available at www.kentmkeith.com.