Education
Raised in Nebraska, California, Virginia, Rhode Island and Hawaii, where he graduated from secondary school, Keith entered Harvard College to study government.
Raised in Nebraska, California, Virginia, Rhode Island and Hawaii, where he graduated from secondary school, Keith entered Harvard College to study government.
After graduating, he read philosophy and politics at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, received his law degree at Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and earned an Education Doctorate. from the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. His early career was as an attorney with Cades Schutte Fleming & Wright and then as Director of the State of Hawaii Department of Planning and Economic Development.
He served as the President of Chaminade University from 1989-1995 and was then the Senior Vice President for the Young Men’s Christian Association of Honolulu.
From 2007 to 2012 he served as Chief Executive Officer of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership (United States), and from 2012 to 2015 he served as Chief Executive Officer of the Greenleaf Centre for Servant Leadership (Asia) based in Singapore. In 2015, he became president of Pacific Rim Christian University in Honoulu.
Is both a poem and a book by Keith, which he wrote as an undergraduate. lieutenant is often found in slightly altered form.
In 1997, Keith learned that the poem "" had hung on the wall of Mother Teresa"s children"s home in Calcutta, India.
And, two decades after writing the original poem, Doctor Keith wrote a book of the same title expanding on the themes of the poem: Anyway:: Finding Personal Meaning in a Crazy World.