Keith D. Dorsey is a researcher, author, advisor, and active board member focused on issues of diversity, governance, and strategic growth for private and public corporate boards. His research has examined women executives’ pathways to securing corporate board seats, yielding powerful insights about the barriers and facilitators unique to diverse candidates seeking these positions. His forthcoming book, Charting an Intentional Path Toward Corporate Board Service: Practical Guidance for Women at Every Career Stage to Secure a Seat at the Table, combines his research insights with his extensive executive, board, and industry experience.

Dorsey is NACD Directorship Certified® and was recognized as an honoree of the 2023 NACD Directorship 100™, an annual recognition of 100 leading corporate directors and corporate governance experts who impact boardroom practices and performance. He serves as a board member at Vimly Benefit Solutions, a private technology and third-party administration company; the Pepperdine Graziadio Business School; the Pacific Crest Trail Association; and as the chair of the City of La Quinta (CA)’s financial advisory commission. He is a former board member of Orion Talent, a recruitment process outsourcing and talent acquisition firm. Dorsey is also a member of the Executive Leadership Council and a graduate of Santa Clara University’s Black Corporate Board Readiness program.

Dorsey is currently a managing partner and the US practice leader of CEO and board services at Boyden, a global executive search firm with 75 offices in 45 countries. His work focuses on helping boards by providing a comprehensive set of board search and consulting services, including full-scale governance review; board, committee, and director assessments; mergers and acquisitions governance planning; board refreshment; and CEO succession planning.

In his former role as president and executive advisor for Dorsey Management Consulting, he mentored and advised C-suite leaders on their sales growth and go-to-market strategies, helped businesses align their strategy with sales expectations and aggressively grow their bottom line and shareholder value during significant periods of change, and optimize leadership and sales team effectiveness.

He has over 25 years of sales leadership experience in the human capital management industry, such as at Alight Solutions (formerly Aon Hewitt and Hewitt Associates), a $2.3 billion leading provider of human capital solutions where he served as the executive vice president and global head of sales responsible for the overall sales growth strategy and execution. Under Dorsey’s executive leadership, his sales teams consistently produced double-digit annual growth. Prior to joining Hewitt Associates, Dorsey worked with Paychex Inc., a Fortune 1000 payroll and human resource outsourcing company, for 16 years. He was a zone sales manager responsible for the growth and delivery of revenue in their human resource service division. Before Paychex, Dorsey spent three years in the insurance industry and five years serving his country in the US Air Force.

Dorsey has a doctor of education in organizational change and leadership from the University of Southern California. His dissertation research is around the lack of gender and ethnic diversity on corporate boards. He also has a master of business administration from Pepperdine University and a bachelor of science in business administration from Charter Oak State College.