Education
DBA, 2020 Capella University
MMIN 2015, Mid-America Christian University
B.S., 2013, Mid-America Christian University
Biography
Dr. Keith Toles Jr. is an Assistant Professor at Southern Nazarene University in the College of Professional and Graduate Studies. His areas of speciality are strategy, entrepreneurship, and business administration. He is a member of the National Society of Leadership and Success. Prior to joining the SNU faculty, he operated his businesses full-time, and worked in the financial services and information technology industries. Dr. Toles is always looking for his next business venture and has founded businesses in the sports apparel, marketing, transportation, online retail, and lawn & landscape industries. He also consults for small startup companies in the Oklahoma City metro area.
Dr. Toles holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and Master of Ministry degree, both from Mid-America Christian University, and completed a Doctor of Business Administration degree in Strategy & Innovation from Capella University.
Rev. Dr. Keith Toles Jr. is a licensed and ordained Baptist minister. He serves as the Youth & Young-Adult Pastor at Greater Mt. Pilgrim Baptist Church. Dr. Toles also serves as a member of One Church, One Child’s Board of Directors. He resides in Newcastle, Oklahoma with his wife, La’Keesha, who also teaches at SNU.
Dr. Toles played collegiate basketball and still loves playing to this day. In his spare time he likes spending time with family, watching Law & Order: SVU, and rooting for the Los Angeles Lakers.
He has a great zeal for teaching business courses and helping students become one step closer to completing their degree. His purpose in teaching at SNU is to help students develop a deeper understanding of business. Business helps construct ways to understand and analyze the world. Dr. Toles believes the SNU environment not only helps to achieve academic goals, but develop Christian business leaders.
Hobbies or fun fact: Hobbies: playing basketball, watching Law & Order: SVU, and rooting on the Los Angeles Lakers/ Fun Fact: I have a Pomeranian dog named Kobe who is an Instagram influencer.