William Kieffer

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 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 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.

Bill is a senior human resources executive with over 23 years 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 active duty as a U.S Army Officer in a variety of command and staff positions. He is a veteran of Operation Restore Hope in Somalia, supported Operation Just Cause, operations in Central America, and Hurricane Andrew relief operations. During Bill’s assignment with the US Army Logistics Management College, he was selected as their “Instructor of the Year”. A Distinguished Military Graduate from the University of Toledo ROTC program, Bill later went on to earn the U.S Army Ordnance Center’s “Herbert W. Alden Award”, as the outstanding honor graduate of the Ordnance Officer Advanced Course. He was the recipient of number of awards and decorations, and earned both Airborne and Air Assault qualifications.

Bill is active in his community being appointed 2x and elected 3x to public office, and serving on a number of veteran-related organizations.

Bill was honored to present “Investing in the Middle” at TEDx Toledo in 2017.

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

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

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