We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Ken Henry a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Ken , looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Any thoughts about whether to ask friends and family to support your business. What’s okay in your view?

When it comes to asking friends and family to support your business, my opinion on the matter is to NOT ask friends and family to support your business. My reasons for this is to maintain healthy boundaries with close relationships and allow family and friends to initiate and volunteer to support you. It is not a good idea for business owners to automatically expect family and friends to support their business. Family and friends have seen the human side of them and as the saying goes, “it is hard to be a hometown her0.”

Ken , love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

I am a native of Louisiana and earned my bachelor’s of science degree in Mass Communications with a minor in Sociology. After earning my degree, I relocated to southern California to attain a degree in Fashion Merchandising. Once I accomplished this goal, I remained in southern California for 20 years working within the fashion, music, and social services industry. My experience encompasses managing fashion show rooms, producing high-end LA Fashion Week shows, buying offices, curating A-list music artist music tour rooms and VIP parties, professional vocal recordings as well as serving as a lead tenor with Firm Soundation for the Kirk Franklin Chicken and Waffel Gospel Brunch at Orange County’s House of Blues, managing foster care homes, and being a graduate of the national human trafficking task force and being an advocate and professional within the anti-human trafficking movement. In 2020. The most rewarding accomplishment during that time period was becoming a husband in 2006 and a dad in 2010. In 2020, my family and I moved to Houston, Texas where we currently reside. I am still an advocate within the anti-human trafficking industry. I am a co-founder at the Coming Home Foundation, an anti-human trafficking 501(c)3 that provides financial literacy and permanent housing for adult female and male human trafficking survivors. I am also the founder and CEO of the Kentagious Kollective consulting firm which provides corporate and organizational leadership trainings, corporate event management, anti-human trafficking trainings, and digital solutions. I am also the founder and CEO for KENTAY Style, a male clothing and apparel brand, and co-founder and CEO of ROYALE coffee manufactured in El Salvador. Lastly, I am a proud member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, INC since 1997.

Any advice for managing a team?

When managing team and leaders in general, I believe it is imperative to instill the company’s mission, values, and culture within them. The mission, values, and culture should be set with sincere intention. Managers and leaders within the company or organization can be inspired by all or any three of them at any time. Having a purpose that you believe in will benefit the entire team and elevate morale especially in times of challenge. When I do trainings corporate and organizational, I am consistent with asking employees including leaders, what is their employers company and organizational mission, values, and culture.

What’s worked well for you in terms of a source for new clients?

The source of new clients for me has been through relationships and me being asked to train and present to a diversity of atmospheres and arenas. This has and is powerfully helping to assist in attaining new clients.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://kentagiouskollective.com
• Instagram: @kentagiouskollective
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kenny.henry.880995
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-henry-8a240361/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@kentagiouskollective

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Kenny Henry