The vision of this academy mission is to provide practical, life-changing content that assists school districts, solopreneurs, and high-performing individuals with tools that instruct, invigorate, and inspire.
We exist to help adults help themselves and others.
Our founder, Keith Wolaridge, considers himself a lifelong learner.
After advising hundreds of customers and lending millions of dollars to small business owners, Keith uses this experience to help others realize their dreams.
Keith has built a solid reputation as a business and civic community leader throughout his professional career. Keith’s primary strength is connecting, being passionate about instruction, and inspiring and invigorating people. He can convey complex material in lay terms to build ideas and drive decisions among diverse groups and individuals. This is done by meeting people where they are and with an exceptional talent for public speaking.
In addition, this retired, award-winning ex-bank executive has earned a MBA from National University, MA from Grand Canyon University, BS in Accounting, California State University, Fresno and a certificate in bank leadership from University of Washington Pacific Coast Banking School. While not consulting, Keith enjoys is an Associate Business professor at the local community college and hanging out with family and friends.
Keith C. Wolaridge writes about the love of his father, a faithful man committed to his family, especially during the toughest of times. Keith witnessed his father’s life-long grasp of "goodness" in the face of a cold, privileged world never meant for him; and yet, holding true to the set of righteous principles, his father's pillars above the rest!
It’s these very pillars that shaped Keith into the man, the father, the business owner he is today. In Five Pillars, Keith offers a robust foundation of wholeness to a crumbling society. He writes urgently, from the heart, with a fluid, intellectual tempo that lifts us and causes introspection, with a single design to perhaps mend the collective soul of our nation. He sat silently, watching the chaos unfold, waiting for that small, spark of hope. And now, it’s his turn to speak
Keith Wolaridge has served on his local school board for over 14 years. He has served on many school committees at the local, county, and state levels. In addition, in 2016, Keith posses a MBA from National University; MA in leadership from Grand Canyon University, along with his Masters in Governance from the California School Board Association.
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