Formerly, Keogh taught leadership communication at The Citadel School of Business in Charleston, South Carolina, and management communication at Tulane’s A.B. Freeman School of Business. He has been a linguist in Army intelligence, and earned a diploma in modern standard Arabic from the Defense Language Institute. He was a writer/editor for the National Institute of Education in Washington, D.C., and received a Fulbright grant for graduate study in the humanities at the University of Strasbourg, France.