hey, i'm
Ali Williams
I'm the Chief Operating Officer.
I graduated in 2021 with a business degree from the Henry W. Bloch School of Management. During my time at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, I served in many leadership positions. I mostly spent my time leading 100+ students in entrepreneurial driven social projects. I have received several awards for my entrepreneurial work. In 2019, Enactus USA named me the Membership Leader of the Year for being the most impactful operations leader in the nation, and UMKC recognized me as the Student Entrepreneur of the Year. I thrive when I am supporting other leaders, helping them maximize their potential in the workplace.
Read my story.
Over the years, I realized that my idea of entrepreneurship is not changing the world by myself, but helping other inspired leaders change the world. For as long as I can remember, I have had a knack for helping others take their biggest goals, challenges, and problems and break them down into small, easy to manage pieces. To me it seems so simple – big goals, big problems, and big projects are just a bunch of little goals, little problems, or little projects that are stuck together and seem more intimidating than they need to. In reality, big projects simply require a bit of creativity, planning, and hard work. Simple. But of course, NOT always easy.
In fact, that is my unique gift. My ability to help people better understand their goals, challenges and problems then break them down and put together a creative, step-by-step plan for getting things done has led to success many times over.
As a Business and Entrepreneurship student at UMKC, my success was recognized and celebrated when I received the prestigious Student Entrepreneur of the Year, an award for the most impactful student entrepreneur at UMKC. After leading hundreds of students through dozens of world-wide projects, I was awarded Membership Leader of the Year as the most impactful operations leader in the nation! Under my leadership of the Enactus Presentation team, our team improved in just 2 years from not placing at all, to 4th, and then 2nd place in the world -out of 400 teams. My work both before, and as VP of Operations of Enactus, has prepared me for, and honed my ability to help other leaders reach their potential.
My creative and get-it-done skills have been tested and honed outside of academia by helping several KC based start-ups improve their operations and scale their businesses. I would be happy to share some of these stories when we meet.
I have always known what I wanted to do even before I knew there was a name for it. I am a social entrepreneur. My goal isn’t to change the world all by myself but to help other inspired leaders to change the world. And that's what I'm here to help you do.