Tom Keelin

Dr. Keelin is managing partner of Keelin Reeds Partners (KR), a management consulting firm that helps small innovative companies achieve their potential. He is also a former director of Strategic Decisions Group, where his positions included worldwide managing director; managing director of SDG London; practice area leader for the strategy, life sciences, and utility practice areas; and human resources officer. Teaming with colleagues at SDG and Stanford, he co-developed the principles of decision quality, on which he has testified in regulatory hearings, which are used routinely by KR and SDG consultants to help clients, and which form a cornerstone of the Decision Education Foundation's efforts to help young people improve their lives through better decision making. For DEF, Dr. Keelin has served as a lead instructor for teaching the teachers of at-risk high schoolers. He received a PhD and an MS in engineering-economic systems and a BA in economics from Stanford University.