Nadra Barnes
Nadra Barnes is a strategic consultant, entrepreneur, and founder of B Organized LLC, a consultancy she launched in 2019. With a background in healthcare and hospitality, Nadra discovered her true calling in helping individuals and organizations turn their visions into reality. Through B Organized, she offers comprehensive support to entrepreneurs, nonprofits, and ministries, including business planning, grant writing, sponsor outreach, and growth strategy. Nadra has successfully secured over $35,000 in awards for multiple organizations, leveraging five years of grant writing experience and two years reviewing grants for United Way.
Beyond her consultancy, Nadra is deeply committed to community service and empowerment. She serves as a Community Wellness Ambassador with the Kansas City Health Department, is an ordained minister since 2018, and holds the position of Second Vice President of the Concerned Clergy Coalition. She is also an active member of the National Congress of Black Women. Nadra’s work is driven by service, faith, and a passion for helping others, particularly in areas of community improvement, mental health, human rights, and crisis intervention.
Nadra’s professional philosophy centers on empowering others to achieve their goals. She helps clients visualize their ideas, create business proposals, secure funding, and navigate growth opportunities. A lifelong learner who began reading at a college level in sixth grade, Nadra is currently pursuing an associate degree in Christian Entrepreneurship Studies, with plans to earn a bachelor’s in Christian Leadership and ultimately a doctorate. For Nadra, success is measured not by financial gain but by the impact she makes in her community and the lives she helps transform.
• Ordained Minister
• Business Owner
• Community Wellness Ambassador
• Missouri Western State University - A.A.
• National Congress of Black Women
• Concerned Clergy Coalition
• Kansas City Health Department
What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to life lessons, for sure. I've been through a lot. A lot of negative things happened to me since I was a child, through my teenage years and the first stages of my adulthood. I let a lot of things cloud my thinking and my judgment, so I made a lot of unwise choices in my life. I did a lot of damage to not only myself but the people around me. Then one day, I just got tired of the way that things were going for me, and I wanted better. So I decided to take the steps that I needed in order for me to have a better way of life, to have healthier relationships, to pour into myself and love me. I'm still on that journey. I'm able to accept all of me and not just parts of me. I choose to forgive myself a lot quicker and give not only myself but other people grace. I've always had a heart for people; life just deterred me from the good parts of me. But now I'm here, and the biggest part of how I'm so successful and at peace and willing to help other people is that God made me that way. He wants me to be good to others and love on people, especially the ones that are hurting. He wants me to give them an extra dose of love.
What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
The values that guide me in both my work and personal life are service to others, faith and spiritual guidance, forgiveness, and self-acceptance. I am deeply committed to investing in the wellbeing and empowerment of my community, and I strive to bring these principles into every interaction and decision I make.