President/CEO of Emerald HPC International LLC
Keith and his wife Iris Archuleta founded the company in 1992 to help develop whole people, healthy organizations, and sustainable communities. Their High Performing Communities Framework™ (HPC) has been utilized to guide collaborative initiatives that foster positive community outcomes, both internationally and locally. HPC uses the processes of appreciative inquiry and fact-finding, imagining the assets of the community and how to use them, and then interconnecting those assets to evoke change.
Winner of the 2012 JFK University Corporate and Community Diversity Award, the company continues to advance and design systems-change strategies and tools for personal, organizational, and community transformation. This includes building the capacity of local stakeholders to design a vision and set of strategies to accomplish measurable outcomes using best-practice models customized for local needs with an emphasis on inclusion, collaboration, accountability, sustainability, and effectiveness.
Keith has two bachelor’s degrees from Stanford University and a master’s degree from the School of Business and Professional Studies at the University of San Francisco. He has authored the “Guide to Effective Work-Based Learning” and the “Work Ready/Essential Skills Framework” and co-authored the “Career Practicum: A Work-Based Learning Strategy.” He is also a certified facilitator of the Dialogue for Peaceful Change methodology and an ordained minister.
An expert in strategic planning and change management, Keith has served on the boards of the Micro Credit Loan Fund and the California CASA Association, as a JFK university regent, and as the board president of Opportunity Junction. He has also served as executive director and interim executive director of several Bay Area nonprofit organizations, including Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA) of Contra Costa County, the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, LEAP…Imagination in Learning, the CBO Center of Alameda and Contra Costa, the Oakland Youth Chorus, and the San Francisco Choral Society, leading each organization in strategic planning efforts and ongoing sustainability.