24 Seven Artist Development offers full service artist management representation as well as short term consulting for independent artists. Karen Kennedy founded 24 Seven Artist Development in 1992. She has managed the careers of Grammy nominated and award-winning artists Kenny Barron, Gretchen Parlato, David Sanchez, Stefon Harris, Jacky Terrasson, and genre bending artists James Francies and Camila Meza. The firm offers full service representation for clients as well as short term management consulting for independent artists.

Karen created the Y.E.S. To Jobs internship program through A&M Records in 1987, a nationwide entertainment industry inclusion program providing qualified students with early exposure and training. She served as product manager for several R&B, Jazz, Gospel and Pop artists at the label before being tapped to lead the start-up Perspective Records which produced Grammy winner Sounds of Blackness and Mint Condition. She is on the Board of National Association of Presenters, Agents, Managers and Artists (NAPAMA), the Advisory Board of Jazz Congress sponsored by Jazz at Lincoln Center and has taught at The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music and is a returning lecturer at the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz in Los Angeles. She held various college administrative and teaching positions at Pitzer College, Loyola Marymount University and University of Southern California and has consulted with schools and city governments in diversity training.