Education strategy.
Media precision.
Global reach.
Two decades of international education and media leadership, delivered through a global network of specialist associates.
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We reject deficit-based thinking about what an institution, or the students inside it can achieve. Every engagement pairs strategic vision with the systems to execute it on the ground.
Founded in 2021, KEEN Global brings the rigor and disciplined execution of any high-performing industry to schools and education networks. A plan is only as strong as the operations behind it, so we design both together.
Our standard comes from inside the systems we advise: assessment infrastructure across 38 private schools in West Africa, special-education frameworks across 33 schools in the UAE, and a broadcast network scaled from one channel to eighty media markets.
Seven disciplines, one engagement team
Every project is directed by KEEN Global’s Lead Consultant and carried out by Senior Associates – the analysts, coaches, and project managers who build the frameworks and stay through execution.
Global Educational Initiatives
Program design for international schools and networks working across cultural, linguistic, and regulatory lines.
Charter School Program Development
Full-cycle charter academic models: founding documents, curriculum frameworks, and authorization-ready architecture.
Policy & Procedure Development
Governance-ready policy and accreditation-compliance frameworks, in education and beyond, built to hold up under state, authorizer, and accreditation review.
School Improvement Plan Audits
Review of improvement plans against state, authorizer, and accreditation standards, with a roadmap to close the gaps.
Professional Learning Community Development
Facilitation systems that sustain data-informed, collaborative practice among teaching and leadership teams.
Leadership Coaching
One-on-one and cohort coaching for school leaders and rising administrators, drawn from K.M. Stokes’s work with education and civic leaders in Ghana, the UAE, and the U.S.
Multimedia & Broadcast Development
Content planning, brand marketing, and production supervision across television and digital, drawn from two decades of broadcast leadership.
Built across three continents
Directed by practitioners, not theorists
K.M. Stokes
K.M. Stokes founded KEEN Global in 2021 after two decades in international education leadership and global media management. As a licensed school leader, she was the first African American Chief Academic Officer in Ghana’s private school sector and led special-education infrastructure work across the UAE’s SABIS/ADEC public-private partnership schools. As the first African American Executive Director & General Manager of Dominion Television, she scaled a pan-African broadcast network from a single cable channel to eighty media markets.
She is also a network leader in charter school education in Washington, DC, and a 2026 Fellow with the Institute of Educational Leadership’s Educational Policy program, advocating for culturally and linguistically responsive education in urban K-12 schools.
Every engagement is led by K.M. Stokes and a dedicated team of Senior Associates who execute each workstream and work closely with clients throughout delivery.
Henry Hayford
Henry Hayford is KEEN Global’s Senior Associate for Media, a video editor and director with over 15 years of experience turning ideas into visually compelling stories. His work spans short films, commercials, music videos, and branded content for the BBC, the NAACP, Mastercard, the United Nations, WaterAid, Dominion Television, and embassies and chambers of commerce, with productions across Ghana, the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium. He leads production crews from concept through final edit.
Let’s build the systems your organization actually needs.
The KEENer the vision, the sharper the execution.
