Kevin Ahmaad Jenkins, PhD · Konquered

Ideas are only
the beginning.

Research, leadership, technology, and institutional transformation—connected by one purpose: moving evidence into action.

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02 / Selected institutional experience

Experience across institutions
that shape our world.

Selected organizations featured in the existing Konquered portfolio. Relationships may include consulting, speaking, research, collaboration, or institutional engagement; they are not presented as equivalent client contracts or endorsements.

Institutional consulting · Research · Strategy · Implementation

Research should do more.
So should the institutions it serves.

Konquered translates evidence into institutional action. We lead complex inquiries, listen to the people closest to the problem, strengthen organizational systems, and build the capacity to sustain change.

From survivor-serving organizations and hospital systems to legislative policy environments and national research partnerships, we bring the methods, strategy, and implementation discipline that consequential work demands.

4PCAR focus groups assessing survivor-service barriers and organizational needs
23PCAR survey respondents informing statewide organizational recommendations
5Research focus groups led by Konquered's team in a 2025 peer-reviewed study
2022National Academies juvenile justice, health and community workshop proceedings
03 / Three ways to engage

Ideas. Expertise.
Infrastructure.

01 / Speaking

Challenge the room.

Research-driven keynotes, executive workshops, and interactive experiences designed to change how leaders think.

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02 / Consulting

Change the conditions.

Institutional diagnostics, research, strategy, evaluation, and sustained executive advisory.

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03 / Technology

Scale intelligence.

EQ ResearchOS connects inquiry and organizational intelligence in a computational environment.

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04 / Institutional use cases

Start with the problem.
Not the product.

Select a challenge to see how speaking, consulting, and technology can work together.

01 / ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE

When capacity doesn't translate into results.

Examine leadership, institutional architecture, operational accessibility, and performance under pressure.

Leadership Under Fire → Diagnostic → Consulting → Organizational Intelligence

Discuss This Challenge →
05 / The intellectual position

The distance between what institutions promise and what people can actually use is where the work begins.

Our work examines that distance through rigorous research, organizational strategy, public scholarship, and technologies designed to make knowledge actionable.

06 / Speaking experiences

Ideas that move
institutions.

Signature keynotes and executive experiences connect rigorous inquiry with compelling storytelling and practical questions.

Leadership Under Fire — The Architecture of Organizational Performance

Batteries Not Included — Leading in Uncertainty

The Future of Inquiry — Who Gets to Produce Knowledge?

Speaking engagement event
07 / Konquered Consulting · Our practice

We change the systems.
Not just the conversation.

Research establishes what institutions need to know. Strategy identifies what they must change. Our implementation teams help leaders make that change operational, measurable, and sustainable.

01 / Institutional inquiry

Research & focus groups

Mixed-methods studies, moderated focus groups, instrument design, rigorous qualitative coding, organizational needs assessments, and actionable reports.

02 / Organizational transformation

Capacity & performance

Governance, operating systems, financial and administrative capabilities, executive coaching, staff development, and implementation support.

03 / Community wellbeing

Trauma & violence prevention

Survivor-centered research, violence-related institutional training, trauma-informed practice, prevention capacity, workforce wellbeing, and service accessibility.

04 / Public systems

Policy & legislative engagement

Policy analysis, nonpartisan legislative education, stakeholder convenings, implementation frameworks, and cross-sector governance support.

05 / Evidence for action

Evaluation & strategy

Logic models, evaluation design, measurement systems, fieldwork, performance dashboards, implementation monitoring, and final evidence synthesis.

06 / Institutional continuity

Advisory & technology

Executive advisory, facilitated strategy labs, responsible AI integration, and ResearchOS-enabled knowledge workflows.

Selected research & national scholarship

Our methods enter the literature.
Our ideas enter the public conversation.

We use evidence to make complex institutional problems visible, elevate lived experiences, and build the systems that move research into practice. These selected publications reflect Konquered's qualitative research delivery and Dr. Jenkins' contribution to national public-health dialogue.

Peer-reviewed research · 2025Listening to families.
Changing how systems respond.
The Science of Diabetes Self-Management and Care · Vol. 51(6)

Overall Experiences and Perceptions of Racism of Parents of Non-Hispanic Black Children With Diabetes

The published study names Konquered Healthcare Solutions as developer of the focus-group guide, credits the Konquered team with leading five focus groups, and identifies Konquered's role in building the qualitative codebook and analyzing the interviews. The research highlights caregiver voice, communication, technology access, and trauma-informed care.

Lipman and colleagues · DOI 10.1177/26350106251378718

National Academies · Workshop proceedings · 2022Juvenile justice.
Health.
Families. Communities.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

The Impact of Juvenile Justice System Involvement on the Health and Well-Being of Youth, Families, and Communities of Color

Dr. Kevin Ahmaad Jenkins served on the National Academies workshop planning committee and received an acknowledgment in the proceedings review process. The proceedings examine how juvenile justice involvement intersects with youth health, family wellbeing, community conditions, and opportunities for healthier policy and practice.

Proceedings of a Workshop · 2022 · DOI 10.17226/26623

Publication attribution: Konquered's specific contributions to the 2025 study appear in its methods, analysis and acknowledgments; Dr. Jenkins' National Academies participation appears in the proceedings front matter. Workshop proceedings summarize presentations and discussion rather than representing an institutional consensus report.

08 / EQ ResearchOS

Research is
not a luxury.

Neither should the technology that makes it possible. EQ ResearchOS brings research workflows and organizational intelligence into an integrated environment.

For people who produce knowledge.

Research, evidence discovery, methods, analytics, writing, and learning.

09 / Selected institutional experience

Experience shaped by
complex environments.

Healthcare & health policy

Research where stakes are high.

Healthcare systems, policy environments, research initiatives, and institutional evaluation.

Corporate & association leadership

Performance under pressure.

Leadership, organizational performance, and strategic decision-making across complex enterprises.

Higher education & research

Scholarship that reaches beyond campus.

Interdisciplinary teaching, research leadership, methods, and institutional knowledge production.

Detailed case studies and quantified outcomes should be added only when approved and substantiated.

10 / I AM Research Institute

The engine behind ideas that move institutions.

The I AM Research Institute connects rigorous inquiry, scholar development, public scholarship, and institutional partnerships—creating the intellectual engine that informs our speaking, consulting, and publications.

Inquiry · Discovery · Public Impact. Research is the foundation; public consequence is the responsibility.

I AM Research Institute — Research Should Do More
Kevin Ahmaad Jenkins — authentic Lean In portrait
12 / A note from the founder

Research remains
the foundation.

I have spent much of my professional life examining the distance between what institutions promise and what people experience. My work has evolved from studying those conditions to building the frameworks, partnerships, and technologies intended to change them.

Public impact remains the responsibility.

Kevin Ahmaad Jenkins, PhD

13 / Begin a conversation

What could we move
forward together?

Whether you are convening leaders, confronting an institutional challenge, or building research capacity, the next step begins with a question worth examining.

Konquered · Process

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From Discovery to Evolution — the six-move sequence that makes precision feel effortless.

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