Keith Wiedenkeller, formerly Chief People Officer for AMC Theatres, currently serves in a strategy and consulting role on behalf of the USBLN in its work developing and promoting the ground-breaking Disability Equality IndexSM (DEISM).
Under Keith’s leadership as Chair, USBLN Board of Directors, the USBLN created its first full-blown, formal strategic plan, enhanced its disability supplier certification program, grew its annual conference by more than 50 percent, and affected a complete rebranding initiative. As immediate past chair of the USBLN and former Co-chair of the DEI Advisory Committee, Keith was instrumental in the DEI’s design, development and implementation.
During his 29-year tenure with AMC, Keith helped develop several cutting-edge diversity initiatives, including the AMC FOCUS program, an outreach program designed to proactively employ hundreds youth with disabilities at AMC’s theatres across the country.
A nationally ranked speaker, writer and facilitator known for his practical, win-win approach to disability inclusion, he currently resides in Kansas City, Missouri, with his wife of 32 years and “way too many” dogs.