Graden Keller's consulting experience spans thirty years and covers a variety of business settings.  His body of work has produced many fresh, creative, and useful solutions to modern organizational challenges.  He is the founder of kellerconsulting®, a management consulting firm established in 1977 and based in Houston, Texas.

In addition to consulting, Graden has owned and led several successful business ventures.  As a result, he intimately understands both the strategic and operational challenges that accompany bottom-line accountability.  He also served on the Board of Directors of a successful training & development organization specializing in providing innovative, custom-built, action learning programs to many Fortune 500 companies.

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 top performance.  His areas of expertise include Strategic and Transition Management; Leadership Assessment and Development; Executive and Team Coaching; Process Facilitation; Organizational Assessment and Development; and Conflict Competency.

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.  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 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 in-house coaching capabilities.  In addition, he was the lead consultant in the design and implementation of company-wide TQM systems for strategic business units of a Fortune Global 50 Communications organization seeking to improve customer relations, production quality, teamwork, and leadership effectiveness.  He successfully led key business units of a Fortune 500 Energy company in transitioning to a team-based organizational structure.  He has also been the designer and lead facilitator of numerous Action-Learning programs for Fortune Global 100 and other companies which targeted high performing, high potential, and emerging leaders and teams.

Recently, Graden was the lead consultant of a senior level initiative for a global, energy related company aimed at optimizing a $1 billion dollar energy management system. This initiative led to the successful reengineering and reorganization/integration of two major departments. He was the consultant to the leadership team of a major business unit within a Fortune Global 50 organization undergoing merger integration.  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.  He has developed and delivered a series of original webinars covering such topics as career derailment, professional development, leadership effectiveness, and conflict competency.

Graden has been a respected, successful Executive Coach for twenty years working with senior management, top/emerging talents, high potentials, and entrepreneurs.  His special area of consulting interest is in 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, offsites, seminars, and conferences to address strategic, operational, and other organizational issues.

Graden is a Jesse H. Jones Scholar with an Honors BA in Management Science and Behavioral Science from Union Institute and University in Cincinnati, Ohio and an MBA in Management with Distinction from the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas.  In addition to his consulting practice, Graden has been an adjunct professor of Economics and Management at the University of Houston.  He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Management at the University of St. Thomas where he is teaching the capstone strategic management course, Senior Seminar.  He is referenced in the Dictionary of International Biography (Cambridge, England) and Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in Finance & Industry, and Who's Who in the South & Southwest (McGraw-Hill Publishing Company).