brandi keeler

Brandi Keeler is a Detroit-bred creative thinker and doer dedicated to personal growth and creative problem solving. Brandi's personal mission is to enhance the way people enjoy, experience and understand themselves and the world around them. She uses her gifts for creative thinking, envisioning and connecting people to help individuals and communities solve problems related to growth, attitude, perception and humanitarianism.

Brandi graduated with honors from the College for Creative Studies in May 2011 with a Bachelors in Advertising Design and minor in Graphic Design. Her early work in advertising garnered honors like an AdCraft Club of Detroit D-show award, a gold cube award from the Art Director’s Club, a silver Effie Award and 2 silver ADDY awards from The American Advertising Federation. Her work has also landed her recognition from Fox 2 news, Time.com, The Huffington Post, Ads of the World, Creativity and Adweek.

In 2013 Brandi was selected from a pool of 700 candidates to be 1 of 30 Challenge Detroit fellows, working to make a difference in Detroit through thought leadership and volunteerism. As a fellow, she was a volunteer engagement associate at the United Way for Southeastern Michigan and was quickly promoted to the position of art design specialist for the organization marketing team. She has since left to pursue entrepreneurship full-time.

Brandi currently use her talents to benefit Detroit social causes, events and non-profits by creating visual and strategic solutions as a freelance creative director and designer. This is how she came to be involved with Detroit Dialogues, Core City Stories, Black Women Rock, Naturally Flyy Detroit, Wi-Detroit, Detroit Bike & Brunch and more.

She also uses her gifts to enliven the process of self discovery and personal development for young adults as a personal growth innovator and visionary with her life coaching business, Expånd.