Academic Work | Ongoing Research Areas | Keith’s Designations
Welcome to Keith Walker’s personal website, please feel free to review various aspects of my University of Saskatchewan work, as well as, my consulting and ministry-related services.
Please get in touch if I might be of service or to forge connections.
Dr. Walker is a Professor of Educational Administration at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. In large part, Keith’s university work consists of research and scholarly writing, teaching with colleagues in the Department of Educational Administration, and service to university and field-based partners. Outside of the University, Keith’s work-services primarily consist of: three sector consulting, minister-at-large for the Christian and Missionary Alliance, ministry across denominations, and executive, leader and board coaching.
Keith has many research interests (new and longstanding). Often Keith’s research areas will be inspired by his graduate students, his sense of need in the world, or his curiosity as a social scientist. Keith’s teaching, consulting, engagement with people around him (particularly his research collaborators), his conscience and his convictions all voice a call to inquiry. Those interests listed here are representative of active and ongoing projects:
Mentorship and Executive Leader Development
Flourishing Organizations, Schools and Congregations
Professional and Applied Ethics
Governance and Board Governance: Public & Social Sectors
Policy Making and Decision Making
Developing Quality Service Cultures
Ethical Leadership in Public Sector
Leadership as Hosting
Collegiality, Vitality, Productivity and Engagement in Organizations
Hope Fostering, Trust-brokering, Compassion and Moral Agency
System, Organization and Leader and Learning Well-being
K-12, Post Secondary, and Public Sector Administration
Personal and Spiritual Dimensions of Leadership and Followership
Keith brings over forty years of experience as a manager, teacher, minister, leader, scholar, and educational administrator in public and social sectors. His academic expertise in applied and professional ethics, educational administration, executive leadership, and organizational development, match well with his interests (governance, leadership-constituent relationships, relationship of social and public sector institutions, decision making and social policy). Many of Professor Walker’s current projects relate to application of positive psychology and positive organizational studies to Pre-K to 12 schools, Post Secondary institutions, civil society and social sector organizations (including congregations). The following bullet points reflect Keith’s degrees and other designations:
D.D., (Doctor of Divinity, honorus causa), Briercrest College & Seminary
Post Graduate Diploma in Christian Studies, Regent College, British Columbia
Ph.D., University of Saskatchewan, Educational Administration
M.Ed., University of Saskatchewan, Educational Administration
B.Ed., University of Saskatchewan (General with Professional A Teaching Certification K-12)
B.P.E., University of Alberta, (Physical Education degree with major in sport and personnel administration)
Reverend Walker is an Ordained Minister: Licensed Minister-at-Large, Christian & Missionary Alliance in Canada (registered with Province of Saskatchewan through CMA-Mid-west District).
