LEADERSHIP.
POWERED BY CHARACTER.
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In my corporate career in the pharmaceutical industry - I loved inspiring, encouraging, and motivating teams and organizations of all sizes all around the world. Now, I'm bringing my unique blend of global experiences, storytelling, and passion to the professional speaking business. I've had the opportunity to bring unique perspectives to thousands of people around the world and look forward to supporting you as well!
"Excellent presentation delivered with expertise and confidence that obviously comes from experience."
About
OMAR L. HARRIS
Omar L. Harris is an award-winning author, international speaker, and leadership strategist known as The JEDI Leader. With over 20 years leading global teams, he created the W.H.O.M. Talent Operating System (Work-Ethic, Heart, Optimism, Maturity) to help leaders decode behavioral DNA and build winning teams. His books—including The J.E.D.I. Leader’s Playbook and Hire the Right W.H.O.M.—equip organizations to lead with character, trust, and inclusion while delivering breakthrough results.
Omar’s mission is simple: empower leaders everywhere to choose light over fear, abundance over scarcity, and character over compromise.
Behavioral DNA: The Code for Building a Winning Team
Every team has a hidden code—a set of patterns, strengths, and blind spots that determine whether they soar or stumble. In this high-impact keynote, Omar L. Harris reveals how to crack that code and unlock the full potential of your people.
Drawing on the groundbreaking WHOM (Work-Ethic, Heart, Optimism, Maturity) framework, Omar shows leaders how to move beyond résumés and roles to the deeper drivers of team success: character, chemistry, and collaboration.
Attendees will discover how to:
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Decode the “behavioral DNA” of their team
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Identify strengths that fuel performance and gaps that drain it
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Build trust and alignment faster than ever before
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Create a culture where character, not politics, determines success
This is not theory. It’s a practical playbook for leaders who want to hire, inspire, and unleash high-performing teams that win consistently—without burning people out.
Ideal for: executives, HR leaders, people managers, and entrepreneurs committed to building teams that thrive in today’s fast-changing world.
Managing Change: Leading Through the Dip
Change is not a straight line. It tests our awareness, resilience, and collective will. In this powerful keynote, Omar L. Harris unpacks the myths and realities of navigating change in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world.
Leaders and teams will explore the connection between self-awareness and adaptability, confront the illusion of stability, and learn how to manage the disruptions that inevitably come with transformation.
Most importantly, they will align on how to navigate “the dip”—that challenging middle phase where resistance, fatigue, and doubt peak—without losing momentum.
Participants leave with a practical roadmap for embracing change together, emerging stronger, more agile, and more united than before.
Ideal for: executives, people managers, and organizations facing transformation, disruption, or rapid growth.
The Trust Equation: Unlocking the Ultimate Leadership Multiplier
Trust is the invisible currency of every successful team. Without it, performance stalls. With it, collaboration, innovation, and resilience accelerate. In this transformative keynote, Omar L. Harris reveals the Trust Equation—a practical formula leaders can apply to earn, sustain, and rebuild trust in any environment.
Audiences will learn how credibility, reliability, intimacy, and self-orientation combine to determine trust levels. Omar draws on powerful stories and decades of leadership experience to show leaders how to measure their own trust quotient, spot where trust is breaking down, and take concrete steps to repair and strengthen it.
The result: leaders who understand how to wield trust as the ultimate multiplier of engagement, performance, and culture.
Ideal for: leaders at every level seeking to improve credibility, deepen relationships, and drive lasting results through trust.
Ideal for: leaders at every level seeking to improve credibility, deepen relationships, and drive lasting results through trust.
TESTIMONIALS
Omar L. Harris is an engaging communicator and a leading expert at helping established and emerging leaders adopt servant leadership principles in order to engage employees in the age of corporate social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Thanks so much Omar, I think these sessions were very helpful and enjoyable. I received positive feedback from the LT and I have taken away many reflections.
I am so moved by your words advice and experience. Everyone in business (and life) should hear you and implement your thoughts. #theendofboss! I will take away much more than Humility Will and Empathy (and Love). Thank you so much for your time and effort in preparing and presenting.
Great presentation! Put egos aside and lead with humility, will, and empathy. Can Will Do - what an encouraging mantra.
