KEOWA WALTERS
Consultant | Facilitator | Speaker | Leader
The Impact.
Helping people and organizations think differently, perform at their highest level, lead with confidence, and create meaningful impact.
By combining psychology, business, sport, and mental wellness, I empower individuals and organizations with the knowledge, strategies, and experiences needed to unlock potential and create lasting change.
How Passion Fuels Purpose
My journey has taken me from Toronto, Canada to several countries around the world. From playing Division I basketball in the U.S. to professional competitions across Europe. Earning scholarships to complete bachelor degrees in Psychology and Sociology and a Masters in International Business. I have built a career using my lived experience and educational background to create meaningful impact in my community.
My passion sits at the intersection of wellness, performance, leadership, business, purpose, and possibility.
I bring a unique blend of athletic discipline, strategic thinking, emotional intelligence, adaptability, creativity, and ability to connect communities.
I've experienced academic setbacks, mental wellness challenges, injuries, unexpected transitions, and the loss of opportunities I worked hard to earn.
I've had to advocate for myself, make difficult decisions, and rebuild using the strengths and experiences of my past and the resources around me.
Those experiences taught me more than how to overcome challenges. My experiences have taught me how to adapt, evolve, and keep moving forward with purpose.
Professional Services
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Keynote Speaker | Moderator | Panelist | Host (MC) | Spoken Word & Poetry
Keowa’s areas of expertise in keynote speaking centre around the following topics:
Mental Wellness & Resilience Strengthen mental wellbeing, confidence, resilience, and sustainable performance through practical tools and meaningful perspective.
Purpose & Personal Growth Help individuals understand their value, embrace their identity, and transform their experiences and strengths into purpose-driven action.
Culture, Connection & Belonging Create environments where people feel valued, supported, connected, and empowered to contribute to something greater than themselves.
Inspirational Storytelling Use lived experience, vulnerability, and powerful storytelling to challenge perspectives, create meaningful connection, and inspire action.
Performance & Leadership: Build high-performing individuals and teams by developing confident leaders who understand their role, recognize their strengths, and lead with purpose.
Keowa’s Speaking service are designed for corporations, schools, conferences, organizations, and events seeking a passionate and engaging speaker that can challenge and empower audiences to think differently and take meaningful action. Drawing from her experience as a young black woman growing up in Toronto, overcoming battles with mental health leading to advocacy, playing collegiate and professional basketball in North America and Europe, transitioning from leadership roles in sports to leadership role business, and the power of positive self-identity to create belonging. Keowa delivers powerful messages to connect the audience to meaningful topics that create lasting impact.
Mental Wellness
Advocate | Educator | Mental Health Program Coordinator
Mental Health & Learning Support: Provide individualized support for people navigating mental health challenges and learning differences.
Confidence & Self-Esteem: Help individuals build confidence, self-worth, and a stronger sense of self through intentional systems.
Coping & Self-Management: Develop practical tools for recognizing choices, navigating challenges, and building healthy coping strategies.
Mental Wellness Education: Provide accessible education and resources that strengthen mental, emotional, and social wellbeing.
Stigma Reduction: Create safe, informed spaces that encourage open conversations and reduce stigma surrounding mental health and mental illness.
Keowa’s Mental Wellness service are designed for individuals and organizations seeking personalized or group-based support or programming that strengthens mental, emotional, and social wellbeing. Using a multifaceted approach combining intentional systems, education, reflection, and practical strategies, Keowa equips individuals and groups with the insight and resources to develop healthy coping strategies, navigate challenges more efficiently, increase confidence, and create sustainable approaches to wellness that satisfy current needs while supporting future goals.
Workshop Facilitation
Mental Health & Learning Support: Provide individualized support for people navigating mental health challenges and learning differences.
Confidence & Self-Esteem: Help individuals build confidence, self-worth, and a stronger sense of self through intentional systems.
Coping & Self-Management: Develop practical tools for recognizing choices, navigating challenges, and building healthy coping strategies.
Mental Wellness Education: Provide accessible education and resources that strengthen mental, emotional, and social wellbeing.
Stigma Reduction: Create safe, informed spaces that encourage open conversations and reduce stigma surrounding mental health and mental illness.
Keowa’s Mental Wellness service is designed for individuals and organizations seeking personalized or group-based support that strengthens mental, emotional, and social wellbeing. Through intentional systems, education, reflection, and practical strategies, Keowa helps clients build confidence, develop healthy coping tools, navigate challenges, and create sustainable approaches to wellness that support both their current needs and future goals.
Business Consulting
Business Strategy: Develop clear, actionable strategies for sustainable growth and success.
Innovation & Opportunity: Identify new ideas, opportunities, and pathways for growth and impact.
Leadership Development: Build confident leaders who communicate effectively, inspire others, and achieve results consistently.
Team & Organizational Performance: Build high-performing teams by aligning roles, strengths, culture, and shared goals.
Growth & Impact: Strengthen people, performance, and systems to create measurable and lasting organizational impact.
Keowa’s Business Consulting service is designed for entrepreneurs, corporations, nonprofits, and organizations seeking strategic expertise to strengthen their business and turn positions into purpose. Combining business strategy with the principles of high-performing teams, Keowa develops both the physical systems and mental frameworks that empower individuals to understand their value, own their role, and recognize how their contribution moves the entire organization forward. Whether working within a large team or independently, individuals gain the clarity, confidence, and structure to perform with purpose and create meaningful impact.
Basketball Consulting
Athlete Branding
Helping athlete build their own brand identity; assisting athletes in leveraging their Name Image and Likeness by building their own personal brand and professional presence or seeking partnerships with major brands.
Basketball Career Strategy
Athletes co-designing a unique plan to achieve their individual career goals.
Basketball career planning for athletes who want to build a plan to achieve their current and future basketball goals.
Basketball career assessment: skills, basketball IQ, position and team orientation, mental toughness and emotional intelligence.
Assistance in navigating collegiate, professional, and international opportunities.
Team Consulting
Collective team approach; focused on strengthening team culture, sense of belonging and identify. Identifying leadership opportunities within individual roles enhancing team morale
Team bonding; activities that allow teammates to build trust and confidence.
Beyond Basketball
Helping athletes identify transferable skills; using athletes experience gained from sport and showing how it can be applied and leveraged real-world situations and leadership roles.
Prepare for life holistically; navigate opportunities beyond sport, personal and professional branding.
Player Development
Basketball skills and development evaluation and training; improves athletes performance, confidence, and mindset by building consistent habits and using systems and resources to achieve success.
Keowa’s Basketball Consulting service are designed for athletes, teams, and organizations seeking expert guidance in player development, career strategy, performance, team culture, belonging, and leadership. Drawing from collegiate and professional basketball experience, Keowa provides both experiential and practical strategies to help athletes maximize opportunities, elevate performance, and build a successful future beyond. their sport.
Today, I bring my lived experience and professional expertise into rooms where people and organizations are ready to think bigger, perform stronger, lead differently, and create meaningful impact.
Professional Background
Keowa's Qualifications and Accomplishments
🎓 MASTER’S DEGREE
International Business Management
🎓 BACHELOR’S DEGREES
BSc. Psychology
BSc. Sociology
🏀 NCAA DIVISION I ATHLETE
5 SEASONS COLLEGIATE BASKETBALL
2019 MAC Champion • NCAA March Madness Round of 32
2022 VCU Team Captain • WNIT Round of 32
🏆 PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE
2024 Irish Superleague Regular Season & Finals Champion
2024 HoopQueens Toronto Champion - Finals MVP
🌎 INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
15+ Countries • 3 Continents