Keith
An Introduction to Keith Walker and His Immediate World
Keith is married to Viv (M.D., C.C.F.P, C.P.C.) (Read more about Viv here).
Viv works as a physician (family and palliative medicine) in Saskatoon. They are the parents of eight adults (half by law), seven grandchildren, and two grand-dogs: MacKenzie and his wife Ali, Gillian and her husband Cody, Eric and his wife and James and his wife Martha. Keith was born and raised in Saskatoon by a pharmacist and businessman, Phil Walker, and a school teacher, Doreen Walker. Both parents are now deceased – the, together with his three sisters (and their spouses) who also live in Saskatoon, have had profound influence on Keith.
Keith Walker is a professor in the Department of Educational Administration at the University of Saskatchewan. He is also Minister-at-Large with the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada (C&MA), Mid-west District. Reverend Doctor Walker is ordained as a minister with the C&MA denomination in Canada. His recognized areas of work include: executive leadership and followership development and practices; organizational development and capacity-building; applied and professional ethics; educational governance and decision making.
He brings over forty-five years of experience as a manager, teacher, minister, leader, scholar, and educational administrator in public and social sectors. His formal education has been in the disciplines of physical education, sports administration, theology, pre-K-12, post-secondary, and social sector education, educational administration, and philosophy.
Systems & Communities
Dr. Walker has long been convinced of the fundamental importance of robust and thriving systems of early childhood development, K-12 education, post-secondary education, and non-formal education for the well-being of civil societies. To his way of thinking, the maturation of governance, organizational, and community learning systems in all three sectors (public, social and private) are critical to the wholesomeness of our shared futures. Keith claims that organizations (whether universities, schools, congregations, or human services organizations) ought to strive to be leaderful, purposeful, and flourishing communities.
Past, Present & Future Work
Professor Walker’s academic expertise in applied and professional ethics, educational administration and governance, executive leadership, and organizational development, match well with his interests in governance, leadership-constituent relationships, relationship of social and public sector institutions, decision making and social policy). Walker’s present projects range from how we might foster hope, create caring and invitational organizations and an examination of trust – why it is important, how it can be sustained and restored – to how we might further engage public and social sector becoming flourishing and engaging organizations. Professor Walker also is interested in how leaders experience and work with their own and others’ pain, the place of self, inner and spiritual leadership and the sources and inner scripts that give rise to the darker sides of leadership.