About Us
In 2021, Keandra Ward, our CEO, was approached by two prestigious companies seeking her expertise as a marketer and publicist for their organizations. Despite holding a master's degree in digital marketing and gaining valuable experience through internships at a PR agency, Keandra had never formally offered these services to the public.
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These two companies recognized her exceptional talents and were relentless in their pursuit. After careful consideration and soul-searching, she decided to accept their offers, and that's when the idea for The ꓘWI Collective was born. However, it wasn't until early 2022 that we officially unveiled our presence to the world.
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Since its inception, The ꓘWI Collective has garnered significant recognition, including the 2023 Distinguished Communications Award from the Diversity Action Alliance for outstanding achievements in Public Relations and Communications. In 2024, we were honored as the recipient of the Her Awards for our exceptional contributions to the world of media.
Awards and Nominations
2023 Distinguished Communications Award recipient from the Diversity Action Alliance for outstanding achievements in Public Relations and Communications.
2023 Legacy Award Recipient
2023 Recipient of the Her Awards for our Exceptional Contributions to the World of Media
Nominated for the 2023
Faith-Made Millionaire Awards
About the CEO
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Keandra Ward
Founder of The ꓘWI Collective
Founder/Interim President of Keystone Business Institute
Do not underestimate Keandra Ward’s small frame. She is the sonic boom in the corporate room. As an award-winning national keynote speaker, Keandra transforms the narrative of organizations from good to great and she challenges corporate audiences to shift from wishful thinking to courageous being.
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Her capacity far exceeds the average workload for a normal day. Within less than 24 hours Keandra balances the daily timeline of preparing online content and material, client consultations and meetings, upgrading workflows, and developing launch plans for clients while preparing breakfast, lunch, and dinner for her family.
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Keandra’s business acumen and corporate expertise are nestled in the belief that every business is a living, breathing organism that has the capacity to uniquely impact its corporate commercial sphere of influence with sustainable brand identity.
She intuitively assists her clients to develop workflow designs that are easily adaptable for immediate implementation. As a business coach, she skillfully applies over 20 years of business acumen to quickly identify industry blind spots that transport clients from imperfect systems to perfection.
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This award-winning business coach travels the globe extensively engaging audiences with a balance of creativity, genius, and wittiness that creates an atmosphere of high intensity, which challenges personal and organizational cultures to authentically redefine themselves.
Keandra is a masterful transition agent that recognizes pieces of the puzzle that can be salvaged and upgraded to the next level within the organization’s structure, while simultaneously coaching clients through the process of change that is necessary to strategically remove old paradigms and systems that no longer serve the next level of the mission and vision.
Her entrepreneurial spirit began at the age of 14 and by the age of 18, she owned her first beauty salon, followed by her second beauty salon at the age of 24. Keandra’s beauty business afforded her the opportunity to travel globally to equip the beauty industry with pragmatic business tools that catapulted beauty leaders into six-figure revenues. In the midst of a booming beauty business, a medical catastrophe with her mother placed her beauty empire into a hard transition.
She made a life-altering decision to transition her business by channeling her beauty salon savvy into NV Beauty Industry Consulting. Quickly, Keandra shattered the box of impossibilities and repositioned NV Beauty Industry Consulting into the nationally recognized Bomb Mentoring Group that creates dynamics of sustainable profitability for any agency, business, or organization from conceptualization to start-up to maintenance. She later expanded Bomb Mentoring Group into Keystone Business Institute, which is an intellectual community for entrepreneurs that offers rigorous curriculums for certification programs and a bachelor’s degree program.
Her educational achievements include a Bachelor of Psychology from the University of South Florida and a Masters of Internet Marketing from Full Sail University accompanied by a vault of over 25 certifications that range from post-crisis leadership to copywriting to PR management. Since Keandra continues as the primary caregiver for her mother, she has founded Key Cares.
Key Cares is a nurturing community that supports individuals who find themselves as caregivers due to various health, medical, and financial reasons.
Whether you need a corporate consultant and coach, project management, or a dynamic keynote speaker, Keandra Ward has a treasure cove of agency, business, and corporate expertise to assist you and your organization to meet your goals for the future. It is time to level up, contact her today to find out how you get the boom in your room.