Talent
Knowledge, skill, judgment, confidence, and adaptability.
About Foster + Foundry
Better work is built around people.
We help organizations respond to change without losing sight of the people responsible for making that change work.
See how we workWhy Foster + Foundry
People, purpose, systems, and execution.
Organizations rarely struggle because they lack ideas. More often, their people, priorities, processes, and technology are pulling in different directions.
Foster + Foundry connects those pieces. We bring a multidisciplinary perspective to the work, translate complexity into practical choices, and help leaders build solutions that people can understand, adopt, and sustain.
Our approach
Talent + Teams + Technology = Transformation
Lasting transformation happens when human capability, organizational conditions, and enabling tools reinforce one another.
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Teams
Culture, leadership, communication, roles, and operating practices.
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Technology
Systems, data, automation, digital experiences, and AI.
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Transformation
Meaningful progress that works in practice and holds up over time.
How we work
Rigorous enough for complexity. Practical enough to use.
Begin with the real need
Listen, learn, and define the right problem before prescribing the answer.
See the whole system
Explore how people, structures, workflows, and technology affect one another.
Build with people
Co-design useful solutions and create ownership with those closest to the work.
Make it useful
Turn strategy into concrete tools, experiences, decisions, and new ways of working.
What guides us
Grounded in what matters. Open to what is possible.
Core values keep the work grounded. Catalyst values create the movement needed to turn good intentions into meaningful progress.
How we show up, make decisions, and earn trust.
Humanity
Center dignity, potential, and lived experience. Progress should serve people—not ask people to serve the process.
Integrity
Be honest about what we know, what we do not, and what the work requires. Trust is built through candor and follow-through.
Practicality
Turn ambitious ideas into useful action. The best solution is one people can understand, apply, and sustain.
How we create energy, possibility, and forward movement.
Curiosity
Ask better questions, challenge assumptions, and keep learning. Discovery creates room for better answers.
Collaboration
Build with people, not simply for them. Diverse expertise and shared ownership make the work stronger.
Possibility
See beyond current limits without ignoring current realities. Imagination matters most when it opens a credible path forward.
Founder & principal consultant
Our founder
Kevin Andrews connects people and technology to help organizations work better.
For more than two decades, Kevin has worked across public and private organizations ranging from five people to approximately 1,500 employees. His experience crosses technology leadership, strategic initiatives, project management, employee and organizational development, facilities, training, evaluation, communication, and real estate operations.
The roles have been different, but the work has shared a common thread: bringing people, processes, and technology together to solve practical problems. Kevin has led IT and workforce initiatives across distributed organizations, overseen project management and enterprise systems teams, guided post-merger and workplace transitions, built learning and evaluation programs, and helped leaders move complex initiatives from idea to implementation.
He is pursuing an Ed.D. in Education Administration at the University of Oklahoma, where his research focuses on professional-development interventions for generative AI. That blend of practitioner experience and applied research informs Foster + Foundry’s human-centered approach to AI and transformation.
Founder-led. Network-supported.
The right expertise for the work.
Clients receive direct senior involvement and a clear point of accountability. Foster + Foundry can engage trusted collaborators in leadership development, people and culture, organizational design, AI and technology, cybersecurity, operations, learning, evaluation, communication, and digital experience. Additional industry and functional specialists can be brought in when the work calls for them.
Leadership developmentPeople, culture & changeStrategy & organizational designAI, technology & cybersecurityOperations & supply chainLearning & facilitationResearch, evaluation & analyticsCommunication, design & digital experience
A more human future of work
Let’s refine what comes next.
Whether the need begins with people, systems, technology, or an idea that still needs definition, we can help you find a practical way forward.
Get startedExperience behind the work
Kevin Andrews
Founder & Principal Consultant
Kevin connects people, operations, and technology to help organizations work better.
For more than two decades, Kevin has held cross-functional leadership and consulting responsibilities across public and private organizations, from five-person businesses to statewide institutions with approximately 1,500 employees.
His broad perspective helps him see how different parts of an organization affect one another and turn complex challenges into coordinated, practical action.
How the work comes together
Build the whole system.
Kevin brings people, operations, technology, and evidence together to shape practical solutions around the work at hand.
Experience across sectors
Higher education
Energy & industrial services
Commercial & residential real estate
Public service & community development
Media & communications
Small business
Explore the experience
Broad capability. Concrete impact.
Strategy, Organization & ChangeTurning priorities into coordinated action across people, processes, and systems.
Kevin has led work that crosses organizational boundaries and requires strategy to become operating reality.
- Led a digital and workplace transformation portfolio spanning project management, organizational development, process improvement, knowledge management, enterprise systems, software development, and employee development.
- Facilitated strategic planning and created practical systems for tracking organizational priorities.
- Helped organizations define core values and translate them into the employee experience.
- Supported mergers, rapid growth, restructuring, and major workplace transitions.
- Directed the onboarding of a major customer representing more than $36 million in business without interrupting service.
- Provided consulting support in organizational design, employee engagement, communication, process improvement, and real estate management.
Leadership & Employee DevelopmentHelping people build the capability and confidence to do meaningful work.
His learning and leadership work connects employee growth with organizational performance.
- Created professional-development programs for organizations with more than 800 employees.
- More than doubled the employee training hours delivered within a college.
- Redesigned onboarding around culture, connection, and early success.
- Directed onboarding programs serving more than 150 new employees annually.
- Developed a 12-week management-training program with an applied capstone project.
- Designed and taught undergraduate and graduate courses, earning a mean instructor evaluation of 4.99 out of 5.00.
- Developed engagement initiatives that contributed to an eight-percentage-point reduction in voluntary turnover.
Technology, Digital Transformation & AIMaking technology useful, understandable, secure, and responsive to people.
Kevin brings both executive technology leadership and hands-on operating experience.
- Led information services for approximately 800 employees.
- Built technology support, governance, security, infrastructure, and business-continuity capabilities.
- Integrated technology for more than 250 employees across four states during a merger transition completed over one extended weekend.
- Guided enterprise-system modernization, workflow automation, and the move from desktop software to web-based tools.
- Helped design custom mobile and desktop applications and implemented a learning platform serving approximately 850 employees.
- Coordinated Microsoft 365, identity and access, cybersecurity, onboarding, and business-system improvements within residential property services.
- Developed practical employee training in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, productivity tools, and digital communication.
Program Design, Evaluation & ResearchDesigning around real needs and determining whether the work makes a difference.
His work combines evidence, applied research, practical program design, and clear communication of results.
- Held statewide responsibilities for program development, evaluation, accountability, visualization, and application development in a public-service organization with approximately 1,500 employees across more than 250 locations.
- Contributed to a $1.5 million federally funded disaster-recovery evaluation and a $250,000 statewide public-health evaluation.
- Led an internal evaluation team responsible for strengthening evaluation strategy across a statewide organization.
- Designed surveys, evaluation instruments, dashboards, reporting systems, and visualizations for leaders and stakeholders.
- Created community-planning, public-leadership, and university student-development programs with lasting value.
- Published three peer-reviewed articles and presented applied work at TEDxTAMU and national professional conferences.
Operations, Projects & Real EstateConnecting strategic goals with the operational details required to deliver them.
Kevin has worked across commercial and residential real estate, facilities, construction, and complex project delivery.
- Coordinated technology and executive-sponsored initiatives within residential property services.
- Managed projects involving multifamily residential properties and planned neighborhood development.
- Led facilities across a seven-state organizational footprint and opened ten locations to support expansion into new markets.
- Directed construction, repair, relocation, and facility-improvement projects.
- Negotiated more than $20 million in commercial real estate transactions across retail, industrial, office, multifamily, land, and investment properties.
- Built administrative, accounting, technology, marketing, and communication systems for a growing small business.
Communication & Creative ExperienceMaking complex ideas clear, useful, engaging, and ready for action.
Communication has been a core part of Kevin’s work from the beginning of his career.
- Developed internal communication, learning, and employee-engagement programs.
- Produced executive presentations, reports, newsletters, digital resources, and data stories.
- Planned institution-wide events, leadership summits, employee meetings, and professional conferences.
- Managed volunteer-supported events serving thousands of participants.
- Created web, video, graphic, and presentation materials.
- Facilitated workshops on communication, conflict, public speaking, presentation design, and customer experience.
- Directed a daily live television newscast and began his career producing print and digital marketing materials.
Foundation for the work
Education & recognition
Education & applied research
Learning that connects theory with practice.
University of Oklahoma
Doctor of Education in Education Administration
Expected May 2027
- Doctoral research focused on professional-development interventions for generative AI.
Texas A&M University
Master of Education in Leadership, Education, and Communications
Texas A&M University
Graduate Certificates in College Teaching and Community Development
East Texas A&M University
Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences in Business and Technology
Formerly Texas A&M University-Commerce
Selected awards & honors
Awards that recognize leadership and contribution.
- Alumni AmbassadorTexas A&M University-Commerce Alumni AssociationThe highest honor an academic department can bestow upon one of its alumni.
- Montgomery AwardTexas A&M Office of Graduate and Professional StudiesOne of two annual recipients selected from approximately 14,000 graduate and professional students for exceptional impact on fellow students.
- Bugle Call HonoreeTexas A&M FoundationOne of six or seven annual honorees recognized for contributions to Texas A&M and sustained engagement with university athletics.
- JCEP Select PresentationJoint Council of Extension ProfessionalsRecognized as one of the three top presentation proposals for a national leadership conference.
- Fish Camp NamesakeTexas A&M University Fish CampA freshman orientation camp was named in his honor, recognizing positive impact on the university community.
- Buck Weirus Spirit AwardTexas A&M University Department of Student ActivitiesOne of up to five graduate students recognized annually for exceptional involvement and impact.
Leadership & volunteer service
Service beyond the role.
Kevin has consistently contributed his time and leadership beyond his formal responsibilities.
Served as a Corporal in the 2nd Civil Affairs Battalion, 8th Civil Affairs Regiment of the Texas State Guard and deployed during Hurricane Harvey.
Held elected and appointed roles involving association governance, conference planning, program leadership, communications, marketing, awards, and evaluation.
Advised leadership, service, integrity, philanthropic, and honors organizations; mentored students; represented graduate-student interests; and helped lead orientation and leadership programs.
Supported charitable funding reviews, taught personal finance and career readiness, led more than 250 educational tours, and volunteered as a speaker and facilitator on leadership, communication, networking, and student success.