Graden Keller's consulting experience spans over thirty years and covers a variety of business settings.  His body of work has produced many fresh, innovative, and useful solutions to modern organizational challenges.  He is the founder of kellerconsulting®, LLC a management and organizational solutions consulting practice established in 1977 with offices in Houston, Texas USA; New York City, New York, USA; and London, England UK.  Currently, Graden is working with clients throughout the United States, Europe, Mexico, and South America.

In addition to consulting, Graden has owned and led several successful business ventures.  As a result, he intimately understands both the strategic, tactical, and operational challenges that accompany bottom-line accountability.  He also served on the Board of Directors and as the Senior Program Designer of a successful Training & Development company specializing in providing innovative, custom-built, action-learning programs to many Fortune 500 companies, including Shell Oil Company’s Corporate Learning Center.

Along with a cadre of exceptional professionals, Graden has spearheaded numerous, successful change and development initiatives.  In his consulting role, he focuses on actionable approaches to real-time business problems, while guiding his clients to continuously improving levels of performance.  Currently, his consulting philosophy and work emphasizes the triangulation of Leadership, Strategy, and Culture to better understand and resolve many modern organizational challenges.

Graden’s consulting achievements include designing and facilitating the capstone component of a North American Leadership Development Initiative, “Vision to Action”, created for a Fortune 500 company seeking to prepare its next generation of leaders for significant contributions to the organization, and beyond.  He designed and delivered a highly successful leadership development program (created for a key division of a Fortune Global 100 Financial Services company); “Developmental Talk: Learning and Leading through Strategic Dialogue”.  He was a senior consultant and contributing designer in a developmental initiative, “Small Group Peer Coaching”, for a Fortune Global 50 Banking firm seeking to develop “best practice” in-house coaching capabilities.  In addition, he was the lead consultant in the design and implementation of company-wide Total Quality Management systems for strategic business units of a Fortune Global 50 Communications organization seeking to improve customer relations, production quality, teamwork, and leadership effectiveness.  He also successfully led key business units of a Fortune 500 Energy company in transitioning from a “command-and-control” to a “team-based” organizational structure.  He has also been the chief designer and lead facilitator of numerous Action-Learning programs for Fortune Global 100 and other companies targeting high performing, high potential, and emerging leaders and teams.

Graden was the lead consultant to a senior level initiative for a global, energy production and transportation company aimed at optimizing a multi-billion dollar energy management system.  He was the principal consultant to the senior leadership team of a major, strategic business unit within a Fortune Global 50 company undergoing merger integration; helping guide the team through a challenging, but successful transition.  He also designed and delivered two leadership development programs for a Fortune Global 100 client, “Align & Synchronize: The Road to Business Success” and “The Merger Survival Guide - Navigating the River of No Return”.  In addition, he has developed and delivered a series of original podcasts and webinars on Leadership, Strategy, and Execution.

Graden has been a respected, successful Executive Coach for over twenty years working directly with C-level executives, top/emerging talents, high-potentials, and dynamic entrepreneurs.  His special area of consulting interest is in working with leaders and organizations facing tough, complex business situations that require practical, thoughtful analysis and commitment to action.  His work with leaders and teams has led to many performance breakthroughs.  He has also developed and facilitated many highly successful meetings, retreats, off-sites, seminars, and conferences to address strategic, tactical, operational, and other organizational issues.

Graden has an Honors BBA in Management Science and Behavioral Science from Union Institute and University and an MBA in Management with Distinction from the University of St. Thomas.  In addition to his consulting practice, Graden has been an adjunct professor of Economics and Management at the University of Houston and an Adjunct Professor of Management at the University of St. Thomas where he has taught the capstone, strategic management course, “Senior Seminar”.  Graden is referenced in the Dictionary of International Biography (Cambridge, England), and listed in Who's Who in the World; Who's Who in Finance & Industry; Who's Who in the South & Southwest (McGraw-Hill Publishing Company).