Founded in 1999, Keeling & Associates, LLC (K&A) is a national leader with 25 years’ experience providing specialized and highly customized consulting and executive search services to colleges and universities, with an emphasis on student-facing priorities in student affairs, health/counseling/wellness, and student success.
OUR GUIDING PRINCIPLES
OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION
Ours is an unjust and inequitable society. Change is overdue. We—as a company, as individuals, and in our work—will advocate for equity and inclusion, challenge hate, and work for justice.
OUR TEAM
Richard P. Keeling
Richard P. Keeling, MD
Chairman and Senior Executive Consultant
Our consultants bring on-the-ground experience as presidents, provosts, vice presidents, AVPs, and executive directors. They have served on governing and advisory boards of national and international professional organizations. Their diverse professional and academic backgrounds in academic leadership, student affairs, medicine, psychology and counseling, public health, business, athletics, development, and the arts ensures an interdisciplinary perspective in everything we do.
Richard P. Keeling, MD and Eric L. Engstrom, MPH founded Keeling & Associates, LLC (“K&A”) in New York City in 1999 to offer customized consulting services for higher education that recognized and responded to the essential interconnections among learning, health, and wellbeing. From the beginning, K&A’s work has centered on vision and purpose, community and culture, and structures and systems; we believe higher education, at its best, cultivates humanity and puts students first.
Let’s create change for learning together.
Let’s create change for learning together.
With more than 350 institutions over 26 years, we are reliable advisors and trusted guides.
With more than 350 institutions over 26 years, we are reliable advisors and trusted guides.
As consultants we are analysts and thought-partners; here, we share ideas to strengthen higher education together.
As consultants we are analysts and thought-partners; here, we share ideas to strengthen higher education together.
CAREERS AT K&A
With team members across North America, we’re flexible, talented, and passionate about bringing change to higher education. If you think you’d be a good fit, submit your resume and cover letter for one of the positions below.