Keita Franklin

Dr. Franklin is a Specialist Executive at Deloitte Consulting LLP where she is a leader in the Government and Public Services practice, providing strategy work across the federal enterprise. She has focused her expertise in key wellness areas to include suicide prevention, mental health, and substance abuse. A transformational leader, Dr. Franklin has spent her 25-year career driving complex organizational and policy change in the federal sector before recently transitioning to the private sector. She has served as a senior executive in both the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), where she served as the principle advisor on all matters related to suicide prevention. She is a subject matter expert on issues impacting military families and has authored numerous pieces focused on service members and veterans. Dr Franklin has served as a resilience/wellness expert, presenting testimony in congressional hearings, at federal commissions, and events with the National Academies of Science. Her expertise extends into areas focused on human behavior, military children, women in the military, PTSD, trauma and substance abuse issues.