About Aaron Keith
Not a theorist.
A builder.
Consultant, trainer, entrepreneur, and author with more than 24 years in the trenches of entrepreneurship — not as a theorist, but as a founder, operator, and consultant who has built, scaled, and sold companies across multiple industries.
Founder of Aaron Keith Consulting · Scottsdale, AZ
24+
Years as a founder & operator
14,000+
CEOs & entrepreneurs advised
145+
Seminars led across the U.S.
2
Successful company exits
The journey
Built, scaled, and sold — across multiple industries.
He has personally advised more than 14,000 CEOs, founders, and entrepreneurs — from startup founders and small-business owners to celebrities, high-growth companies, and billion-dollar organizations. His work sits at the intersection of business strategy, operational systems, leadership and communication psychology, behavioral science, and personal performance.
Aaron's entrepreneurial journey began at 19 when he launched his first company. After several years of struggle, he was introduced to his first business coach and mentor — a relationship that became a turning point in both his life and career. With the support of coaches, advisors, and disciplined systems, he built one of the most successful companies in his vertical, and at just 24 founded Aaron Keith Consulting. He sold the first business at 26 to commit fully to developing a world-class consulting practice.
What made that experience meaningful was not just the financial success. It was the life that business allowed him to build — more freedom, travel, health, strong relationships, and personal fulfillment. That shaped Aaron's belief that business, built correctly, should support both the company and the person leading it.
Since then he has built four companies of his own across real estate investment and development, health and wellness, and the medical space — including Spark Health, a personalized natural-medicine clinic — completing two successful exits to date. His experience as both operator and advisor gives him a rare ability to understand the real pressures business owners face: not in theory, but from lived experience.
Methodology & approach
The Operating Ecosystem 7.
Aaron is the creator of OE7 — a proprietary methodology that helps CEOs understand, organize, and operate the seven core departments of a company. It combines the mental game of business with the systems, structures, and performance disciplines required to scale.
Track 01 — The mental game
New distinctions for how CEOs and leadership teams think, lead, strategize, and operate. Because mindset, leadership, and vision are essential — but only when something holds them in place.
Track 02 — The structural work
Proprietary grading diagnostics and operational systems built across the seven core departments every scaling company must develop. Clear structures, defined responsibilities, measurable performance, consistent execution.
“Systems hold mindset in place.”
Aaron's book, The Operating Ecosystem 7, brings this methodology to print for the first time — a complete operating manual for building a company that doesn't just survive growth, but is architecturally designed for it.
The work behind the work
Calm, direct, and built in the field.
Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, Aaron brings the same directness, grit, and discipline to his client work that he brought to building his own companies. He helps entrepreneurs think more clearly, lead more effectively, and build companies that are more profitable, sustainable, organized, and aligned with the life they want to create.
His approach is not polished for the stage. It's built in the field, refined over more than 14,000 consulting relationships, and delivered without the pretense that scaling a company is cleaner than it actually is.
The entrepreneurs who resonate with Aaron's work are the ones who are done performing and ready to build.
Work with Aaron.
Direct, systems-first consulting for CEOs and founders serious about building. The first step is a focused conversation.