Jeffrey Keefer

Organizational Learning & Communication Consulting

Organizational Communication
Adult and Organizational Learning
Workplace Learning and Performance
Strategic Program Development
Instructional Design
Technology Adoption
Applied Research
Theory Development

Jeffrey Keefer is an Organizational Learning and Communication expert who consults, teaches, and works in New York City.

Jeffrey consults corporate and non-profit clients that need to align their learning needs to their organizational strategies. His research and evidence-based interventions are informed through his professional and educational experiences gathered while completing four graduate degrees that examine learning and human interaction from numerous vantages.

Jeffrey is a senior instructional designer and project manager at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, where he designs, develops, and manages the implementation of learning initiatives and educational programs in the Clinical Education Department of Quality Management Services. He works with internal and external parties to promote evidence-based educational interventions to affect positive patient outcomes.

Jeffrey is also an adjunct instructor in two schools at New York University. He teaches in the Management Communication Department NYU's Stern School of Business, where he teaches both graduate M.B.A program students as well as undergraduate ones. Jeffrey is also an adjunct instructor in the Leadership and Human Capital Management Program, as well as in the Management and Information Technology Program, both within the Division of Programs in Business in the School of Continuing and Professional Studies. Here he teaches in graduate programs in Human Resource Management and Development and in Management Systems.

In previous positions, Jeffrey has worked as a Manager of Knowledge Management, Technical Trainer, and teacher and faculty developer within the private schools in New York City.

Jeffrey has presented papers at the Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD) in the US and UK, the Adult Education Research Conference (AERC) in the US and Canada, the New York State Nurse’s Association conference, and Northern Voice, the Canadian Personal Blogging and Social Media Conference. He was one of the founding members of AHRD’s Scholar-Practitioner Committee. Jeffrey will be presenting at the 2008 ASTD International Conference in San Diego, and his paper "Do Practitioners Use HRD Research (and Why or Why Not)? has been selected by the AHRD Cutting Edge Committee as one of the top ten outstanding papers from the AHRD 2007 Annual Research Conference Proceedings. Jeffrey was also recently appointed to the Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed journal Advances in Developing Human Resources.

Jeffrey has graduate degrees in Adult and Organizational Learning, Business Education, English and American Literature, and Religious Studies. His current areas of research include critical human resource development, the effects of post-modern and post-structural theory on organizational learning, transformative learning, and the influence of social media on the adult learner.

Jeffrey speaks and consults internationally on organizational communication, adult learning, and applied research.