Institute For Inclusion

Keith Earley is an organization development consultant with a broad range of corporate experience in change management, executive coaching, diversity and inclusion strategies, team building and group facilitation.  He offers a strategic orientation to client support that focuses on achieving enhanced and sustainable results.  Most recently, he has worked with clients in the private sectors that include a variety of publicly traded, global and domestic companies.  He also has provided service to federal and municipal agencies and not-for-profit entities. 

Keith has extensive corporate experience, having served as the Vice President—Employee Strategies & Practices in Freddie Mac’s Human Resources Division.  In this capacity Keith was responsible for developing and implementing Freddie Mac’s diversity initiative, had oversight responsibility for employee relations matters nationwide and was involved with a broad array of corporate-wide human capital development strategies.  He assumed this position in 1999 following 17 years of service in Freddie Mac’s Legal Division.  As an attorney, Keith’s responsibilities covered a broad range of corporate activities including employee relations, employee benefits, and HR strategy matters.  In addition to these responsibilities, Keith functioned as interim Vice President of the Corporate Affairs Department in the Legal Division handling corporate governance functions and division wide administrative matters. 

Prior to Freddie Mac, Keith was associated with the Washington, D.C. firm, Boasberg, Klores, Feldesman and Tucker, where his practice concentrated on corporate and commercial transactional matters.  Prior to that, he was in-house counsel to Delta Enterprises, a diversified manufacturing and venture capital firm located in Greenville, MS.

Keith has a Masters of Science in Organizational Development from American University in Washington, DC.  Keith is a graduate of Rutgers University Law School and he completed his undergraduate work at Cornell University where he received his B.A.  He also has obtained a certification in Executive Coaching from the Georgetown University Center for Professional Development.  Keith has been certified in Workplace Mediation and Conflict Resolution through the Northern Virginia Mediation Service.  Keith also is qualified to administer the Intercultural Development Inventory, the BarOn EQ-I (measuring emotional intelligence) and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.  Keith is able to integrate these tools to provide a synergistic approach to individual, team and organizational effectiveness.