Keith Leust

May 13, 2021

Keith Leust is a results-driven business leader with over 30 years of hands-on experience. His career has been split between leadership roles in companies and an executive consultant to Fortune 500 leadership teams. Keith held senior leadership roles including VP Transformation, Chief Human Resources Officer, Senior Director of Business Architecture, Head of Motorola University, and other executive positions at Prudential, American Express, Motorola, Oracle, and other global organizations. His consulting work includes business strategy and execution, transformation, technology deployment and optimization, revenue growth and cost optimization.

Leveraging his background as an engineer, with a Master’s in Finance and a Six Sigma Black Belt, along with training in multiple change and transformation methodologies, he is a seasoned leader who focuses on outcomes and achieving desired business results. Keith leverages his ability to adapt and learn as conditions evolve to re-imagine what is possible.

His unique approach to Transformation weaves together the disciplines of Strategic, Operational, Organizational and Digital Transformation into an integrated agenda that continues to adapt as the needs of the business shift and evolve.

Keith is a former board member of Business Architecture Association (BAA), now the Business Architecture Guild. He co-authored the first Business Architecture certification exam and career competency model for the Business Architecture Association, and “The Business Transformation Field Guide” to improve transformation outcomes.
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Articles by: Keith Leust

Disruption, Hyperautomation, and Transformation – Part I

Disruption, Hyperautomation, and Transformation – Part I

Author(s):

Daniel Morris
Managing Principle, Wendan Consulting
Keith Leust
Managing Principle, My Career Transformation

Some disruption is a normal part of any business operation. We just adjust. We collectively all just lived through a bad one—the Covid19 pandemic. We are now entering yet another new major disruption, and hopefully it will prove to be a good one. While this disruption has already started, its impact has not yet reached its projected level.

Meet the Author: Daniel Morris and Keith Leust, Business and Digital Transformation in the Age of Hyperautomation

Meet the Author: Daniel Morris and Keith Leust, Business and Digital Transformation in the Age of Hyperautomation

Speaker(s):

Daniel Morris
Managing Principle, Wendan Consulting
Keith Leust
Managing Principle, My Career Transformation

Tune into this webcast as authors Dan Morris and Keith Leust discuss their new book, ‘Business and Digital Transformation in the Age of Hyperautomation’. They will join Gregg Rock in discussing how the world of Hyperautomation is quickly changing and they will explore the impact of Hyperautomation on business and digital transformation.

Hyperautomation is a grouping of advanced application generation tool platforms that are changing every aspect of business, how companies interact with one another and their customers, and how they innovate. These technologies include iBPM, RPA, Ai, Natural Language Processing, IOT, cognitive computing, and more. 

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