Kent M. Keith
Kent M. Keith (born in 1949 in Brooklyn), is an American writer and leader in higher education. Raised in Nebraska, California, Virginia, Rhode Island and Hawaii, where he graduated from secondary school, Keith entered Harvard College to study government. After graduating, he read philosophy and politics at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, received his J.D. degree at Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and earned an Ed. D. from the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. His early career was as an attorney with Cades  Schutte Fleming & Wright and then as Director of the State of Hawaii Department of Planning and Economic Development. He served as the President of Chaminade University from 1989-1995 and was then the Senior Vice President for the YMCA of Honolulu. From 2007 to 2012 he served as CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership (US), and from 2012 to 2015 he served as CEO of the Greenleaf Centre for Servant Leadership (Asia) based in Singapore. In 2015, he became president of Pacific Rim Christian University in Honolulu. The Paradoxical Commandments. "The Paradoxical Commandments" is both a poem and  a book by Keith, which he wrote as an undergraduate. It is often found in slightly altered form. In 1997, Keith learned that the poem "The Paradoxical Commandments" had hung on the wall of Mother Teresa's children's home in Calcutta, India; and, two decades after writing the original poem, Dr. Keith wrote a book of the same title expanding on the themes of the poem: "Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments: Finding Personal Meaning in a Crazy World." Personal life. He lives with his wife, Elizabeth Keith, and three children in Honolulu, Hawaii.