Andrew Keyt
Founder, Advisor, and Chair of the Board
Andrew Keyt is an internationally known business strategist and succession planning expert for family owned businesses. He has established a reputation globally for his ability to advise large family enterprises, resolve family conflict, and restore communication.
At the age of 22, Andrew became a family business owner of a business he didn’t even know existed. His personal story and witnessing the growth and transformation of many successful family business leaders inspired him to write Myths and Mortals: Family Business Leadership and Succession Planning, published by Wiley, July 2015. His book is based on years of research and interviews with great next generation leaders like Christie Hefner, Bill Wrigley Jr., Massimo Ferragamo and more. His family business insights have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Fortune Magazine, The Economist and Family Business Magazine.
Prior to founding Generation6, Andrew was the President and Founder of Keyt Consulting, a private firm that assists family enterprises with succession and strategic planning, dealing with family conflict and communication, working with adult sibling and cousin teams, and executing emergency management transitions. He was worked extensively with some of the largest enterprising families in the United States.
Andrew served as the Clinical Professor in Family Business and Executive Director of the Loyola University Chicago Family Business Center for over 20 years. In addition, he led the Family Business Network – United States (FBN-USA), the leading network for business-owning families worldwide, as President and member of the board between 1998 and 2020.
Andrew is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Family Firm Institute Interdisciplinary Award, recognizing outstanding achievement in the advancement of interdisciplinary services to business families. He is a published author, presenter and contributor of more than 100 articles in trade journal publications. Andrews’s book, “Myths and Mortals: Family Business Leadership and Succession Planning,” leverages groundbreaking research to guide new family business leaders on how to establish credibility and run their operations their way.
Andrew holds an Executive MBA for Families in Business, an M.S. in Marital and Family Therapy and a B.A. in Psychology. He is based in Chicago.
Find Andrew on LinkedIn, or contact him at akeyt@generation6.com.