Dawn Kennedy

Dawn K. Kennedy is an attorney, business operator, strategic advisor, publisher, and author.

She is the creator of Strategic Intelligence for Main Street™, a practical decision discipline that helps founders, operators, and business leaders understand what is really happening, what the business can carry, and what the next move requires before pressure takes over.

Her work is shaped by experience across military capability development, enterprise intelligence, emergency response, law, entrepreneurship, and Main Street operations. Before bringing that work into small business, Dawn founded and published At The Ready Magazine, where she translated military, public-safety, acquisition, and operational concepts for first responders and community leaders.

She is the author of The Profit Accelerator for Small Business, which reached #2 New Release in Amazon’s Business Consulting category, and Before You Decide: The Field Manual for Durable Decisions Under Pressure. She is also the host of the Business Mastery Podcast, with more than 225 published episodes, and writes Get In, We’re Doing Business on Substack.

Dawn is the co-founder and CEO of Convoy Road Coffee Roasters in Ohio, where she applies Strategic Intelligence inside a growing Main Street business.

Outside the work, Dawn is a wife, mother of five, grandmother of three, devoted servant to several fur babies, and a U.S. Navy veteran.