The Executive Background
Digby R. Kerr is a serial entrepreneur and executive with 35+ years of experience in logistics, sales, marketing, and business development. His career spans senior roles at some of the world's leading logistics and supply chain companies: FedEx, UPS, CEVA Logistics, and XPO Logistics.
After building a deep track record at the executive level in global logistics, Digby founded his own global logistics company and served as CEO for 15 years — scaling it from inception to a globally operating firm. Today, he continues to serve as Vice President at a major company alongside his work at Kerr University.
This operating background — not an academic or coaching credential — is what makes Digby's mentoring distinctive. He has sat in the rooms where the decisions happen. He has hired and fired. He has built global sales organizations. He has negotiated nine-figure contracts. When he coaches executives, he draws on direct experience, not theory.
Education: Wharton, Yale, and St. John's
Digby holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania — consistently ranked among the world's top two business schools. His education continued with Executive Education at the Yale School of Management, and he holds a BS from St. John's University.
The Wharton credential is not a marketing badge at Kerr University. It is the academic foundation that informs how Digby thinks about strategy, finance, and executive leadership — and that he brings into every session with executive clients globally.
Author of 12 Books
Digby R. Kerr is a published author of 12 books on business, sales, career strategy, and executive leadership. His books are distributed globally through Amazon KDP, Draft2Digital, Apple Books, and other platforms under DKNY Publishing™.
Writing 12 books on business is not a passive exercise. It requires synthesizing decades of executive experience into frameworks that other professionals can apply. That synthesis process is also what makes Digby an unusually effective coach — he has already done the intellectual work of distilling what matters at the executive level from what does not.
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28,500+ LinkedIn Connections
Digby has built a LinkedIn network of 28,500+ connections organically over his career — a reflection of genuine professional engagement across the logistics, sales, and executive leadership communities globally. This network is one of the reasons Kerr University's reputation for executive mentoring has grown without paid advertising.
Platforms: MentorCruise, Clarity.fm, Catalant, Wyzant
Digby is listed as a Top Tutor and Top Mentor on Wyzant — the leading US tutoring marketplace. He is also active on MentorCruise, Clarity.fm, and Catalant. These platforms provide visibility to executives and professionals who might not otherwise discover Kerr University.
Most executives who find Digby on these platforms choose to come directly to Kerr University for their ongoing engagement. Direct engagement provides a more customized relationship, faster communication, and no marketplace intermediary between client and mentor.
Kerr University: Founded 2021
Digby founded Kerr University in 2021 to provide premium 1-on-1 executive mentoring and business English coaching directly to global executives. The origin story begins with Business English — coaching non-native English speakers to perform at the executive level — and has expanded to the full spectrum of executive mentoring, CEO coaching, sales leadership, and career strategy.
Since 2021, Kerr University has earned 30 five-star Google reviews and has served executives globally across the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, Brazil, Colombia, Russia, Asia, and the Middle East. The model is simple: one Wharton CEO, one client at a time, direct access, real results.
A Note from Digby
"I built Kerr University because I kept seeing talented executives and founders held back by gaps that were entirely fixable. A VP who could not present to a board because his English was not executive-level. A founder who could close $1M deals but could not articulate her company's value to a $100M acquirer. A CEO who knew exactly what he wanted to build but did not have anyone in his corner who had actually built it before. I have been in those rooms. I can help. That is what Kerr University is for."— Digby R. Kerr, Founder, Kerr University™