Talent Masterclass

Keshya Williams – Talent Coach Bio

Keshya is a military kid, trained to adapt and adjust to new situations and changing environments.  These are the very skills that helped shape her as a professional, performer, and businesswoman.  As a young child, she started performing in anything her mom could find to be a part of in the communities they lived. Which resulted in her signing to her first Agency, Models and Images in Wichita, Kansas at the end of High School. 

From there she started college at Clark Atlanta University where being a student didn’t get in the way of her passion - “Find a Way or Make One” became a motto she lives with to this day.  During her matriculation time management and multitasking became daily tools as she pursued both modeling and acting while working 3 jobs as a fulltime student. She studied under Carol Mitchell Leon performing with the CAU Players during the day, while modeling in shows both on and off campus.  She later went to New York competing in IMTA (International Model & Talent Association) where she was offered a contract with a South African Agency.  With education being a priority, her parents turned down the offer to ensure she graduated, which she did with a Dual Concentration in International Business and Finance. 

Upon Graduation, Keshya tried to retire from performing, but something kept pulling her back. An old Producer who became a close friend and mentor, was instrumental in getting her back into the Industry.  From there she worked on a number different projects for clients like Nordstrom, Bronner Brothers, Soft Sheen Carson, Designers like, Mychael Knight and Reco Chapple, Photographer Derek Blanks. As her desire to learn the business grew, she went on to facilitating fittings & styling models for shoots and later choreographing and producing fashion shows.  Her mentor pushed Keshya to embrace her gift for teaching and coaching talent. She became an Instructor at John Casablancas, where she was later named the Head Instructor of the Atlanta Center.  Here she was able to really make a difference to her staff, students, and their parents by writing and updating curriculums, enabling a number of Instructors to teach, training hundreds of students, that she have gone on to Success in Dance, Acting, Modeling, Film, among other things. JC is where she met and began collaborating with D.J. to later become a Cohost of the “What They Don’t Tell You Podcast”. She then pitched the concept for “BE Squad Backstage” in collaboration with her Cohosts and a new chapter began.

Developing talent is a primary focus for her company Klean Looks LLC, where she and her team live up to the motto, “We get you from the Shoot to the Show”. The company has coordinated/choreographed Fashion Shows for Men In Black Charity Honor Awards in partnership with City Of Atlanta & Hosea Feed The Hungry, Children’s Healthcare, National Cancer Society, and others. This year they produced their first set of films for Cobb and Douglas County’s Public Health PREP Program.

One of her greatest Lessons learned is to Network to your Networth. Throughout her journey she was fortunate to build an amazing Network of talented, motivated, like-minded individuals to support one another and build a future that we all believe in. She has been a Runway Model, Promotional Model, Print Model, Runway Choreographer, Stylist, Model Manager, Actress, Voiceover Talent, Stage Manager, Teacher, Coach, Production Assistant, Assistant Director, and recently a Producer. Each project bridged to the next leading her to believe, you can never deny your Destiny!