Kevin Keystone is a multi-talented professional with a passion for negotiation, mediation, conflict transformation, and coaching on difficult conversations.

As a Teaching Fellow at the Harvard Law School, Kevin taught negotiation and difficult-conversation skills to students from across the Harvard professional and graduate schools and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He also served as board member and Training Co-Director for the Harvard Mediation Program, the same program in which he certified as a mediator in the state of Massachusetts. While in Cambridge, he regularly mediated small-claims disputes in district courts in the Greater Boston area.

At the Harvard Divinity School, his graduate studies focused on conflict transformation and ethical approaches to strong political disagreement. He facilitated community dialogues and confidential workshops on highly-charged and deeply personal topics, such as Zionism and Israel/Palestine. His work reflects his commitment to a range of conflict transformation approaches, including negotiation, mediation, dialogue, community organizing, and advocacy.

Prior to Harvard, Kevin served as Head of Product for a start-up data analytics firm in Toronto, Canada. There, he led a global team of product managers, business analysts and software engineers from Brazil, Germany, Serbia, the United States and Canada. Together, they created valuable business-intelligence products that contributed to the successful sale of the company in 2018. As a member of the core leadership team alongside the CEO and COO, he represented the product portfolio through the company’s acquisition.

Kevin also has deep experience as an award-winning writer, editor, and researcher. Working closely with Kristina McElheran, assistant professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, he edited and supported academic articles for top-tier journals in strategic management and frontier technology. Kevin also developed lectures and syllabi for undergraduate and executive education. As a freelance writer, his three-part series on the Abraham Path in the West Bank, Palestine, was recognized with the Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Jewish Journalism from the American Jewish Press Association.

Kevin earned an Honors Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia, a Master of Theological Studies in Religion, Ethics and Politics and a Graduate Certificate in Religion and Public Life from Harvard Divinity School. He speaks English, French, and intermediate Spanish, and is a level-two Red Seal professional chef.