ALI - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Chief Operations Offic Er
• Writer

Keith Kehlbeck is a writer, historian, and marketing consultant with clients in the hospitality, nonprofit, and publishing sectors. At the age of 10, his family took a trip to Washington, D.C., sparking what would become a life-long interest in the Civil War. There was no turning back; since that trip Keith's passion for studying the Civil War led him to write Gone to God: A Civil War Family's Ultimate Sacrifice, a nonfiction history told with diaries and letters written by soldiers and their family members, published in 2013. His most recent book, Aim High: The Life and Times of John Arena, a biography, came out last year. During his career, he has worked as Executive Director for Select Registry, Distinguished Restaurants of North America (the preeminent association of high-end bed and breakfasts and boutique small inns and hotels), Distinguished Restaurants of North America (DiRoNA), and Southwest Michigan First, a cutting-edge economic development firm. Keith obtained his Bachelor's degree studying history at Wabash College in Indiana, graduating summa cum laude.