Andrew Keyt is an internationally known business strategist and succession planning expert for family owned businesses. He has established a reputation globally for his exceptional ability to advise large family-owned businesses, resolve family conflict, and restore communication. He is one of the few experts called upon in family emergency transitions to help them discover invisible opportunities and solve seemingly impossible problems.

Keyt is a contributing writer to several industry and national publications, including Family Business Magazine, Family Business Review, and Campden FB. His acute family business insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Fortune Magazine, Smart Money, The Economist, and Families in Business.

Keyt is the Executive Director at the Loyola University Chicago Family Business Center (www.luc.edu/fbc) dedicated to helping multigenerational family-owned businesses grow, transition, and learn. The center serves some of the largest family firms in the United States and Canada, approximately 100 member family businesses ranging in size from $25 million to $8 billion in annual sales.

As executive director, Keyt advances the center's research efforts, developing initiatives such as the Loyola Guidelines for Family Business Boards, Emergency Management Transition, Family Influences on Strategic Planning, Family Business Board Compensation, Non-Family CEOs and the Family Business, Family Shareholder Buyouts, and the American Family Business Survey. Loyola's Family Business Center received the Family Firm Institute (FFI) international award and was ranked by CNN.Money and Fortune Small Business as one of the top six family business programs.

Keyt is also the CEO and president of FBN North America (www.fbn-na.org), the North American Chapter of the Family Business Network International (FBN-I). FBN-I is a global network of over 3000 family businesses dedicated to the multigenerational success and sustainability of family firms. FBN is the premier global organization serving family firms.

Keyt is also President and Founder of Keyt Consulting (www.andrewkeyt.com), a private firm that assists family enterprises with succession, family, and business strategic planning, family conflict and communication by working with adult sibling/cousin teams, and next generation leadership development. Having been a member of his own family partnership and having served as manager in two family-owned firms, Keyt has firsthand experience with family business challenges.

Keyt is an acclaimed keynote speaker on family business topics at conferences all around the world including Campden Publishing Families Business Conferences, Family Business Network International Conferences (Colombia, Finland, India, Ireland, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States), United States Association of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, FBE Conference, University of Jyvaskyla in Finland, Association of Mergers & Acquisitions Advisors Conference, Association of Fundraising Professionals, Independent Grocers Association, University of Alberta-Canada, Cornell University, Crain's Chicago Small Business Forum, Presidents Forum Retreat, ABA National Trust School, Shoe Retailers Association, The Northern Trust Corporation, World President's Organization, Harris Bank, and Capital Bank & Trust.

Keyt holds a master's degree in family systems theory from Northwestern University with a concentration in family business and an MBA in Family Business with Honors from Kennesaw State University. He is a cum laude graduate of Kenyon College.

Keyt currently serves as a governor on the auxiliary board for the Steppenwolf Theater, a member of the Advocate Illinois Masonic Hospital Charitable Council, and the Advisory Board for the Center for Urban Research & Learning at Loyola University Chicago. He has served on the Alumni Council of Kenyon College and the Board of Deacons of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago. As a volunteer with the Leukemia Society of America, Keyt has completed six marathons to raise money for leukemia research. An avid singer, Keyt has performed in classical choirs, jazz clubs, and popular settings.