Kevin Howell, 44, is the chairman and chief government officer for the Anchor Group and GO Caribbean Community. His experience consists of worldwide enterprise, monetary administration, enterprise technique growth, and analytics.
Howell’s consulting agency has overseen the event and development of organizations that assist post-acute care and residential well being aide staff, an trade that predominantly employs immigrant, Caribbean, and Black and brown ladies. His experiences working with subtle giant firms have been translated to serving to these small and mid-sized firms with infrastructure and workforce optimization.
Howell can be internet hosting the primary CARESTAR AWARDS 2023 this August, an occasion to spotlight the unsung heroes of the house care trade and push the model of high quality care. Organizations supporting the occasion embrace Platinum Companion CABS Well being Community & Home of D’Marsh, One Brooklyn Well being Programs, JASACare, Aetna, Netruc PR, and AZ Billing.
“Everybody sees the nurses, everybody sees the medical doctors, however lots of people don’t see the social employee, don’t see the affected person navigator, the house care employee,” mentioned Howell. “It’s about understanding that they’re necessary on a regular basis to make folks’s life higher.”
Howell was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and moved to St. Andrew parish together with his mother, aunt, and siblings. He spoke fondly of the neighborhood he grew up in and mentioned he was lucky sufficient to get an schooling. By 1993, he began finding out accounting on the College of the West Indies in Jamaica. He mentioned accounting and economics got here naturally as one thing he was good at.
He labored on the public accounting agency PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in Jamaica, as a senior audit affiliate from 2001–2003. After finishing his MBA in 2005, he joined and ultimately grew to become a supervisor at Ernst & Younger in New York. He additionally labored at Broadridge Monetary Options as a senior director of enterprise growth.
“The Ernst & Younger signal, the one in Occasions Sq., forty second Avenue—I nonetheless keep in mind I used to be at PWC and I got here right here for trip,” mentioned Howell. “I take into consideration that second, seeing the signal from the bus coming from the Bronx.”
Throughout his time working in New York Metropolis, Howell determined to department off onto a completely totally different profession path and check out his hand at modeling, which he did to some success.
“Coming to the U.S., I suppose I discovered my magnificence,” joked Howell about his modeling days. “It wasn’t for me. I wasn’t snug with being handled a (sure) means or simply being a rack.”
Together with his inventive juices flowing, although, Howell dove into beginning the Anchor Technique Group in 2009 to generate enterprise on his personal. He wrote his marketing strategy round his ability set, wrote a finance ebook, and drew inspiration from two of his college students at a options heart he taught at who have been within the house care and occupational remedy fields. His group helps resolve points for companies and frontline staff, connecting them with much-needed providers and doubling down on honest remedy.
Howell mentioned that throughout the pandemic, he noticed the struggles of some house care staff not feeling valued as very important members of the care staff for sufferers and handled as contractors with decrease wages. “For me, this was a chance,” mentioned Howell. “We’d been seeing the gaps and plotted, in a great way, to get care linked in a means they’ve by no means been earlier than.” Ariama C. Lengthy is a Report for America corps member and writes about politics for the Amsterdam Information. Your donation to match our RFA grant helps preserve her writing tales like this one; please think about making a tax-deductible present of any quantity in the present day by visiting https://bit.ly/amnews1.
