About Keith Miller
I’m an executive coach and leadership development expert. I help leaders get a 3D view of their strengths as motivators to examine how deeply held attachments can create blind spots. I love shedding light on how to develop non-dominant traits (your “weak” side) to create the kind of culture that inspires, generates creative ideas, retains and recruits talent, and gets consistent results.
Since I was a kid, one of my biggest joys has been learning how things work. Eventually I realized that learning “how” was not good enough for me. I wanted to know why? Whether behind the stick of an airplane or sitting in a corporate conference room, I have an ability to focus on the most important details, what I call the true path, that will lead to the way home.
Learning "how" wasn't good enough...
...I wanted to know "why"
Translating high-potential into results
I founded True Path Consulting after a long career as a clinical psychotherapist and entrepreneur, most recently bringing powerful new FDA-approved psychedelic medicines onto the front lines of fighting the epidemic of mental illness in our country. I believe families are the backbone of society. That’s why I’ve spent two decades strengthening families as an expert in conflict resolution and attachment psychology.
I’m trained in systems thinking and am a student of pioneering psychologist Richard Schwartz, known for his groundbreaking concept of natural multiplicity of the mind–the idea that competing impulses (polarities) within a person or a group of people are not bad and should not be neutralized. Polarities can be destructive when there is not a fulcrum or center point that safely grounds the highly energized friction between opposite forces. Yet it is these very same high-potential moments which, when grounded in safety and respect, can give birth to extraordinary elegance, harmony, and flow states throughout the system.
“A life of its own”
As Arthur C. Clark put it, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
While you won’t ever find the word “magic” in a shareholder prospectus, you will find journalists stumbling for words to describe an upper echelon of products, companies, or CEOs that have crossed the threshold from “we know why this is working,” to “this has a life of its own.”
I would love to be in the room with you when the energy of your team ignites, leaving behind worries about how to deal with friction as you are propelled into an orbit higher than you thought possible.
Growing the heart and mind of your company
Over my two decades of private consultations with families in the heart of Washington, DC, I noticed a pattern in my clients: Most were extraordinarily talented and successful executives, athletes, or political figures.
I found that that the psychological understanding needed to have a healthy mind and family were cut from the same neurobiological cloth as the skills needed to have a healthy corporate culture. A company, just like a family, has a heart that needs to be nurtured and a mind that needs to be challenged. Instead of coaching a family to develop and launch healthy kids, I wondered if I could help CEOs develop and launch healthier and more successful executive leaders.
We tell our kids that money doesn’t grow on trees. However, I found that successful companies and successful products do come from a growth mindset. It gives me tremendous satisfaction to put the tools and skills needed for growing a healthy mind into the context of a healthy corporate culture.
Sticking the landing starts with good chemistry
In early 2022 I began fulfilling a lifelong dream and started to learn how to fly airplanes. I’ve flown out of the world’s oldest airport (College Park, MD) and in some of the world’s busiest airspace around Washington, DC.
Flying my dream airplane is still a work in progress and a goal that will take many years to fulfill. But pilot training has helped me recognize how important it is to have the right chemistry with your instructor when the lives of others are literally in your hands. I take the same approach when I meet a new CEO. Let’s make sure our chemistry is right, and have a “test flight” conversation. I’d be thrilled to see how I can help you dial into a “true path,” the route that is clear and direct, to aim your company toward a bright and successful future.