About Us

SKG is an innovative, award-winning, Texas-born dealership with more than two decades experience revolutionizing space. We are the exclusive dealer of the Knoll constellation of design-driven brands for Austin, San Antonio, Central, South and West Texas.

SKG challenges conventional wisdom when transforming traditional spaces into environments. We lead with the WHY to connect people to productivity, talent to brand and vision, and individual lives to commitment. Explore our portfolio of projects that span the country and include corporate, government, education, home and healthcare environments.

mission

SKG creates spaces that move people. We design and plan spaces that connect:

People to Productivity
Talent to Brand and Vision
Individuals to Purpose
Business Needs to Budgets and Flexibility

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People

Diana Keller

Founder

Diana is the co-founder and president of Austin-based SKG, one of the largest Knoll furniture dealerships in the country and the second largest woman-owned business in Central Texas. She started the company in 1996 as the Shelton-Keller Group and it has grown beyond its headquarters in Austin to include a second location in San Antonio. The company employs more than 80 design, support and strategic workplace professionals serving clients across the country. Diana has fostered the company’s growth with an impeccable record of customer service. She has instilled in the organization a focus on achieving a successful outcome for every client. Diana is a devotee of design with an ability to understand the subtle functional elements most people take for granted in their daily lives. Diana is a member of the University of Texas School of Architecture Advisory Council and she serves on the board of the Charles Moore Foundation.

Beth Goff-McMillan

CEO

Beth understands it’s not just furniture. Where and how employees work has everything to do with their level of engagement, which ultimately results in an organization’s success. She started on her journey with Knoll as part of the distribution channel, moved to manufacturing, was a regional manager for Knoll, and has brought her experience full circle as CEO and Owner. Beth’s goal is to solve problems before they arise and set businesses up for success. She is focused on process improvement, strategic planning, and ensuring clients receive their maximum return by focusing on their business objectives. Beth is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, a member of the Austin Chapter YPO, Board of YPO, on the Steering Committee for Austin Women’s Fund, 2018 Chair of AWF Keyholder.

Baret Meazell

CFO

Baret is responsible for ensuring SKG’s systems are operating at peak efficiency to get orders from the sales team to the vendors into the warehouse and installed for customers in a seamless manner. He was chief financial officer of Billy Reid, a luxury lifestyle brand based in Alabama, before joining SKG. Baret graduated with an accounting degree from the University of Texas in Austin and has an MBA from the University of Florida. Right after graduating from UT he was the overnight DJ on Z102 in Austin and briefly considered a radio career.

EMILY GUPTON

Chief of Staff

Emily is driven by a love for improving how people work. Whether by refining business workflows or implementing new technologies, her goal is to drive efficient and effective organizations. Her career in the contract furniture industry began in project management and grew into various operational excellence roles. As Chief of Staff at SKG, she is responsible for organizing and prioritizing critical corporate initiatives and projects. She provides support to the leadership and executive teams and drives the organization’s ongoing efforts to develop and implement best-in-class processes and procedures. Emily has Bachelor’s Degrees in Neuroscience and Business Administration from the University of Texas at Dallas, and an MBA from Texas Woman’s University.

JAY HEFNER

Vice President of Business Development

Jay has built a long and successful career as a sales leader fueled by his ability to forge meaningful relationships with his customers. He is an outstanding provider of client solutions due to that capacity to connect with people. Before joining SKG, Jay was Vice President of Business Development at a North Texas Knoll dealership where he spent 20 years helping to build it from scratch to one of the dominant dealerships in that market. He spent 17 years in the energy business before that, selling trucking and pipeline services for Koch Industries. In each case — oil or furniture — it was all about the people.

Culture Club

DIVERSITY + INCLUSION

Believing in change is simply not enough. At SKG, we roll up our sleeves and do the mind, body and soul’s work it takes to put change in motion to truly diversify the workforce. We are a company owned and operated by women who grasp that our differences are what allow us to make a difference in the world. It’s not about compliance, it’s about our culture that believes in embracing, empowering and uniting people in community and business.

Leveling the playing field

100% woman owned business - HUB certified.
66% of our board members, 3 members of our Executive team and 85% of our employee base are female.
30% of our employee base is non-White.
Company policy: For every male resume reviewed, we require two female resumes.
SKG provides paid Paternity Leave options.
Extended bereavement policies.
COVID Initiatives:
- Implemented stipends for childcare and tutors.
- Provided Technology to support children learning from home

Training and Partnering

All executive members participated in the Beyond Diversity class as part of the Mayor's Task Force.
Prior to contract execution, SKG annually reviews and audits our entire supply chain for their diversity and inclusion clauses.

Paying it forward

SKG is a corporate sponsor of the Austin Community Foundation Women’s Fund supporting the economic security of the underserved population of women in Central Texas. Beth Goff-McMillan serves on the Steering Committee for AWF and has served as the Chair of Keyholder.
SKG is a sponsor of Code2College’s Vision 2024 to place 200 Black and Latina women into STEM roles by the year 2024.
- SKG has retained two interns through the Code2College program
- SKG was the first corporate sponsor for the program
- Code2College charter information can be found here.

Community

As a woman-owned and woman-run company we are very focused on women’s issues. The causes we support are those we feel fall in line with our core values and allow us to make a measurable impact. We have focused a considerable amount of volunteer hours as well as financial support on the organizations below.

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Certifications

Our certifications are vetted by third parties validating our assertions and participation in these programs. The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts certifies us as a Historically Underutilized Business.

Recognitions

We’re honored to be recognized as one of the fastest growing companies in Austin and the nation. Each award we earn has been vetted by the granting organization. The “Top Workplace” award is a testament to the culture we have fostered at SKG.