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Patrick Keeney
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Patrick Keeney, founder, president, and lead consultant of Marshmallow Lodge LLC, has significantly impacted the intersection of learning, innovation, and opportunity. From shaping educational experiences connected to NASA classrooms to leading national career and technical education initiatives at McGraw Hill and K12/Stride, his work consistently turns ambitious visions into measurable results. An entrepreneur with an engineer’s mindset, Patrick specializes in strategy-to-execution: clarifying and quantifying vision, building durable business models, and aligning teams, processes, and behaviors to deliver. His hallmark is insanely effective talent deployment. He deploys the right people on the right work at the right time. This leads to results that efficiently delight clients.

 

Through Marshmallow Lodge, Patrick partners with education and workforce organizations across Career Education, STEM, and EdTech—especially in the critical “0 to 1” phase. Engagements often include launching new business units, scaling small teams into specialized organizations, and building products that engage with new markets. He brings an empathetic lens to implementation, knowing that real results come from understanding how people actually work.

 

Among his professional accomplishments are building a business unit producing an annual revenue exceeding $70 million after 6 years by launching statewide K–12 career academies. As Pat puts it, “My greatest accomplishment is seeing the growth in people … enabling them to produce amazing solutions is the greatest success I can have as an entrepreneur.”

Patrick Keeney: Founder, President, and Lead Consultant of Marshmallow Lodge LLC
Website: www.marshmallowlodge.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/coachk23