Guest speaker in MBA Course Leading Innovation and Change

Guest speaker Bill Kieffer will give a presentation to MBA students on change.

Bill is President & Chief Advisor of Kieffer & Associates Limited, an advisory firm specializing in Military Veteran Career Transition, Leadership Coaching, Strategic Talent Management, and Professional Speaking and Facilitation services.

He is the author of “Military Career Transition: Insights from the Employer Side of the Desk,” released in July 2021 as the #1 New Release in Amazon’s Job Hunting category.

Bill has coached, advised, mentored and worked with hundreds of service members, veterans and others around the globe regarding career transition, leadership development and performance improvement throughout his career.

He also:

• Serves as a coach and coach advisory board member for “The Honor Foundation”, a non-profit group providing career transition services to the special operations community.

• Is a master trainer for Ranger for Life’s “A More Elite Transition”

• Serves as a member of the Board of Advisors for “Law Enforcement Connect”

Bill is a senior human resources executive with over 23 years of professional experience in multiple large, complex, global companies. His broad-ranging work includes full spectrum HR and talent management, and coaching/advising individual leaders and teams from the c-suite to the shop floor.

Prior to these experiences, Bill served nearly 12 years of active duty as a U.S Army Officer in a variety of command and staff positions.

His education background includes:

• the Strategic Human Resources Program at Harvard Business School
• the Leadership Education Program at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
• a Master of Science, Administration degree from Central Michigan University
• a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Toledo
• numerous other military and professional development courses

Bill is active in his community being twice appointed and three times elected to public office and serving with a number of veteran-related organizations.

Bill was honored to present “Investing in the Middle” at TEDx Toledo in 2017, and to guest on over 20 podcasts discussing a broad range of topics.

He has worked in / traveled to 32 countries and has set foot on every continent except Antarctica.

He is married with five grown kids and in his free time loves riding his Harley.