About Khalique Rogers

Strategist | Systems Designer | Bridge Builder

Khalique Rogers is a strategist and systems designer whose work transforms how organizations and communities approach social change. As the Founder and Principal Strategist of Good Riddance LLC, he helps mission-driven organizations identify their pain points, align leadership, and create actionable strategies that move from vision to implementation.

Khalique specializes in the intersection of housing, workforce, and education — the three pillars that determine whether people survive or thrive. His consulting practice brings together leaders across sectors to uncover shared goals, align values, and co-design systems that work for everyone. By convening stakeholders across the ecosystem, he helps teams create a shared vision and a shared sense of ownership, where each person’s role and skill set contributes to meaningful, measurable progress.

With a data-driven, human-centered approach, Khalique has guided public agencies, nonprofits, and foundations through processes of change management, organizational alignment, and design thinking. His facilitation style emphasizes both structure and soul — blending analytical precision with deep empathy and storytelling.

Leadership in Action

In addition to leading Good Riddance LLC, Khalique serves as the Executive Director of Catalyst for Systems Change (CSC), a Minnesota-based nonprofit recognized for breaking down barriers between education, workforce development, and housing. Under his leadership, CSC has:

• Helped secure over $120 million in state investments for youth and family homelessness prevention, education innovation, and workforce alignment.

• Led the Changemakers Program, a statewide youth policy initiative connecting students with legislators to advance real legislative proposals.

• Partnered with Minnesota Housing to reform the Challenge Program — transforming it from a 30-year loan-only model to one that includes grant funding. This policy change unlocked $800,000 in Youth Construction Trades Grantsto expand hands-on training programs across Minnesota, including in rural communities that previously lacked access.

• Designed cross-sector strategies that have redefined how systems collaborate across urban, suburban, and rural Minnesota.
  
  These accomplishments at CSC are living examples of the same frameworks Khalique now helps other organizations apply through Good Riddance — turning theory into scalable, community-rooted practice.
  
  

Philosophy & Practice

Khalique’s philosophy is simple:

He believes that systems, like people, need the right conditions to thrive. His work centers on building environments of alignment, accountability, and shared vision — spaces where innovation can take root and progress is sustained.

His signature model, “A Hero’s Journey: Turning L’s into Lessons,” guides youth and emerging leaders through personal transformation, leadership development, and social-emotional learning — blending creativity, storytelling, and strategy.

Recognition & Reach

Khalique’s work has been featured nationally on NPR’s Marketplace Morning Report and locally across WCCO, the Star Tribune, MinnPost, and Pioneer Press.

He is an alumni of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Harvard Business School’s Young American Leaders Program, and Saint Paul College, where he also serves on the President’s Advisory Board.

A Strategist for Systems and People

At his core, Khalique is in the difference-making business. His mission is to help organizations and individuals alike design strategies that don’t just treat symptoms, they heal systems.

Whether leading statewide coalitions or coaching executives through vision alignment, Khalique’s work turns complexity into clarity and purpose into progress.

“Dreams don’t work until you do — but the right strategy makes the work matter.”

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Services

Organizational Strategy & Systems Design

We help organizations find clarity in complexity. Through facilitated design sessions, we align leadership, staff, and stakeholders around a shared vision — identifying pain points, mapping system gaps, and creating actionable roadmaps for sustainable change.

Change Management & Ecosystem Alignment

Change doesn’t fail because of lack of vision — it fails because of misalignment. We convene decision-makers across sectors to co-create strategy, ensuring that everyone is pulling in the same direction. The result: shared ownership, shared accountability, and measurable progress.

Leadership Coaching & Strategic Advising

Change starts with people. We provide individualized coaching and executive advising to help leaders navigate uncertainty, strengthen communication, and lead with purpose — transforming insight into impact.

Design Thinking & Innovation Labs

Our customized design labs bring teams together to reimagine what’s possible. Using creative facilitation and evidence-based tools, we help organizations design programs, policies, and partnerships that are equitable, efficient, and enduring.

 Systems Alignment & Policy Strategy

A Key Component of our work here at Good Riddance is to create system change by tackling tough social impact initiatives that effect the community. The issues we address are brought though a community design process that has the people who are most closely effected by the problem, be involved in each step of the way to reduce/eliminating their pain points.

Catalyst for Systems Change (CSC) | Minnesota Statewide Initiative
As Executive Director of CSC, Khalique led a cross-sector effort connecting housing, education, and workforce development systems. The work mobilized youth, policymakers, and community partners to secure over $120 million in state funding for affordable housing and education initiatives.

This project exemplifies Khalique’s approach to aligning leadership, data, and community voice to achieve measurable systems change.

Interested in reading more about our research? Check this Minnpost article where they highlighted our work.

We are always looking to collaborate and receive funding for this important system changing work. If you want to join the movement schedule a time to connect below.

Current Projects

We Roll the Dice: A Gamification of United States Housing Discrimination

Rural and Urban Youth Health Equity Advocacy Group

We are convening greater Minnesota and urban youth to identify and help solve/reduce problems the young people identify as top priorities.  This builds on several recent efforts by Minnesota high school and college  that, for example, helped convince the Minnesota legislature and county officials to allocate millions to help reduce homelessness, and to obtain federal funds to pay unemployment assistance to high school students who had been laid off due to the COVID 19 pandemic. 

Thank you for your interest in helping young people become change makers for their community. Below we outline next steps that can help us start this journey together. The purpose of this project is to engage staff, students and community in a joint effort to critically look at the social ecosystem we live in, examines its health and find ways to combat it.  Urban and rural Minnesota rarely ever coexist and we are looking to change this reality by discovering how we can bridge the gaps that divide us. By the end of this journey we will provide the next generation with tools to create a space that is anti-oppressive and reflective of the broader community they serve.   Below is an outline of our plans.

I Goals

1. Convene youth from Greater Minnesota and Twin Cities to

   1. increase mutual understanding and

   2. produce progress on 1-2 major issues that youth identify as important (similar to the progress that youth made on unemployment compensation for high school students state funding to reduce number of youth experiencing homelessness)

2. Increase knowledge and skills of high school youth in helping produce progress on issues they decide are important .

3. Expanding possibilities on future career paths for student body

II. Issues youth have identified as possible priorities: Sexual mis-education and teen pregnancy, lack of post-high school opportunities, sexual harassment, drug abuse, • Vaping/Drug/Alcohol Abuse • Social Media Addiction • Violence in Schools • Stress and Time Management • Social and Political Issues • Obesity • Homelessness • Hunger • Depression• Bullying • Academic Problems • Suicide

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Speaking engagements

Khalique has new and relevant content for you business needs. As a masterful cultural broker, public policy advocate, keynote speaker, facilitator and host/emcee , he uses these skills to amplify and curate solutions for the needs of the community and organizations.

Want to find out more? Look below at some of his ongoing work!

Initiating Change: A Workshop on Racial Justice

America today is more diverse than ever before. As a result many organizations and institutions have had to grapple with the ways that white supremacy interacts with their policies, practices and procedures. This presentation will allow leaders to reflect on their own racial identities and consider the ways that their organization can be more racially just.

lets make this moment a movement!

Homeless youth forum St. Paul, MN

We’re tired of waiting on super man!

“If not NOW than when and if not YOU then who?

Today’s hearing in the St. Paul City Council Chambers: Voices of Unaccompanied Youth, kids and Families was a great success! So many kids and families were able to share their important stories, and the City Council will take under advisement our recommendations for creating more housing for the 2000 kids currently faced with homelessness in our city. 

I am proud and honored to be part of this effort

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