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Reentry Consultant & Strategist
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Proven solutions and Leadership

About Kardell Sims Enterprises

Kardell Sims Enterprises is a consulting and strategy firm for organizations working in corrections and reentry. We help agencies, nonprofits, and businesses turn good intentions into programs, partnerships, and plans that hold up in the real world.

Our clients come to us at different stages. Some are entering the corrections space for the first time and need to understand how it works. Others have a program or product and need a strategy to get it adopted, funded, or scaled. Either way, we bring a view most firms can't: years of direct work inside facilities, and working relationships across federal, state, county, and private corrections.

What we do

  • Strategy and advisory: market entry, positioning, and growth planning for organizations serving the corrections and reentry field

  • Program and partnership development: designing programs agencies will adopt, and guiding pilots, proposals, and partnerships from first conversation to launch

  • Curriculum and learning design: in-person, virtual, and self-paced courses, including content built for learning management systems and licensing

  • Reentry programming: workshops and courses delivered inside facilities, built on frameworks such as Inside Transformation Framework, The Whole Person Approach model and the Four Bridges of Reentry

  • Speaking and training: keynotes, conference sessions, and staff development

  • Coaching: one-on-one guidance for leaders, entrepreneurs, and reentry professionals

Experience

Kardell Sims is a reentry consultant, national speaker, Master Certified Empowerment Life Coach, and 18-time published author. In 2026, the National Association of Reentry Professionals honored him with the Patrick Mahoney Leadership Award. His guiding philosophy: reentry starts On The Inside — of prison and of self.

By the numbers

  • 20+ businesses and individuals consulted and guided

  • 50+ institutions visited across 11 states

  • 17+ prisons that have instituted one of his programs

  • 30+ reentry workshops delivered inside prisons

  • 100+ incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals mentored

Trusted by

U.S. Department of Justice / Federal Bureau of Prisons, the Departments of Corrections in Missouri, Massachusetts, Florida, Tennessee, Arizona, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Ohio, Cook County Sheriff's Office, Howard County (MD), CoreCivic, and GEO Group.

Education

CPD Accredited Life Coach

Renaissance Life Therapies

Life Coaching Graduate

Renaissance Training Academy

Master Certified Empowerment Life Coach Graduate

Empowerment Coaching Academy

The Standing Ovation Speaker's Academy  Graduate

ViaHOPE Texas Mental Health Resource

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+1 (660) 619-2392

St. Joseph, MO

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 KARDELL SIMS

Speaker & Life Coach

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