Mike McKeever, Strategic Partner

Mike McKeever is retired – from paid employment. Most recently he served for 2 years as Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg’s Chief of Staff and Senior Policy Advisor, after 12 years as the CEO of the Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) and 3 years as the Project Manager for their groundbreaking Blueprint planning program. Before moving to Sacramento in 2000, most of his career was in Oregon, where he started and managed a community-based non-profit organization in Bend, and two urban planning consulting firms in Portland.

McKeever has dedicated his nearly 40-year career to promoting collaborative action between communities and organizations, promoting economic and environmental sustainability, and helping to develop and apply innovative planning software that allows professional planners and thousands of residents access to high quality information to help understand how neighborhoods, cities and regions function.

Mr. McKeever graduated from the University of Oregon with a liberal arts degree and lives in Sacramento with his wife, Nancy. They have a second in Portland, where they enjoy time with several adult children and grandchildren.