Keith Byler, D.O.
Executive Coach, Physician
Keith has a special interest in working with individuals and groups to facilitate learning and enhance performance. He has done coaching and consulting with executives in settings as diverse as health care institutions and various manufacturing operations including oil refineries, steel mills, manufacturers of automobile parts, etc., and ranging from managers to CEO's.
For the past five years Keith has done work for the London Business School working with senior executives in an Executive Leadership Development program. This has involved both individual and small group process work and has included extensive use of a 360 Degree feedback instrument. He has also facilitated focus groups and worked with two rival metropolitan hospitals in a merger situation. In addition, Keith has lead two-day off site retreats for the upper level managers, senior executives, etc., to facilitate change management, team building, and visioning.
Keith is a certified coach through the International Coach Federation, has a Master's Certificate in Evidence Based Coaching from Fielding Graduate University, and is nearing completion of a Master's degree in Organization Development, also from Fielding.
In addition to his coaching/consulting practice, Keith is a physician-partner in private practice specializing in Occupational Medicine. The practice has approximately 800 very diverse client companies that range from hospital systems to manufacturers of hard goods, food, as well as service companies. Keith is the medical director for several companies with statewide and nationwide operations, including Illinois Power. Prior to entering private practice thirteen years ago, he was an Emergency Medicine physician for ten years, and was the director of three different E.R.'s during that time. This breadth of experience provides a robust platform from which to assess and address a variety of coaching and consulting concerns at the individual, team, and organizational levels.
For fun Keith enjoys sailing, knocking about on his small farm, and astronomy. He is also a published poet and is on the board of the St. Louis Poetry Center, the oldest poetry center of its kind west of the Mississippi.
