Omar L. Harris
About the author

Omar L. Harris.

Author · Leadership strategist · Keynote speaker · Founder, Intent Consulting.

Omar spent 22+ years as a global executive across four continents — building, restructuring, and rebuilding teams in some of the world's most demanding business environments. He didn't develop W.H.O.M. in a classroom. He built it in the field, through failure, reinvention, and the hard-won wisdom of leading real people through real change.

Today he writes, speaks, and consults with one mission: unlock unlimited growth in every person willing to do the character work.

9
Books published
22+
Years in the field
4
Continents
80K+
Readers worldwide
The story

W.H.O.M. was not designed in a boardroom.

It was forged over five decades of living — through the kind of experiences that either break a person's character or build it into something unbreakable.

Omar's life has contained both extraordinary adversity and undeniable privilege, often in the same chapter. A childhood uprooted and tested. A career launched with momentum and interrupted without warning. Highs that came faster than expected. Lows that lasted longer than seemed fair. Decisions made under pressure, on four continents, with real stakes and real people on the line.

What emerged from that life — not from reading about it, but from living it — was a pattern. In every season of growth, in every comeback, in every moment of genuine impact on another person, the same four qualities were present: Work-Ethic, Heart, Optimism, and Maturity. In every season of stagnation or regret, at least one of them was missing.

W.H.O.M. is the framework Omar wishes he had been handed at the start. Not because it would have spared him the hard seasons — those forged him. But because it would have given him a language for what was happening, and a map for what to do next. That language is what this book puts in your hands.

Omar's signature

He built the framework by living it.

Omar's W.H.O.M. signature shaped every decision in the framework. Optimism as a superpower that never concedes to pessimism. Work-Ethic forged through international assignments and early-morning disciplines. Heart developed through years of leading people through some of the hardest seasons of their working lives.

Maturity was the hardest-won of the four. It required learning to modulate the strength of Command — knowing when to deploy it and when to step back. The book is as much Omar's own growth map as it is a tool for yours.

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Omar L. Harris Illustrative
Work-EthicSuperpower · 94
HeartStrong · 82
OptimismSuperpower · 96
MaturityHard-won · 78

Omar's real signature shaped every decision in the W.H.O.M. framework.

Published works

Nine books. One through-line.

Every book Omar has written — from leadership manifestos to a novel under a pseudonym — orbits the same conviction: character is what compounds.

Grow With W.H.O.M.
2026 · New

Grow With W.H.O.M.

Unlocking the power of character to Grow Yourself, Your Team, and Your Impact

Hire the Right W.H.O.M.
2025

Hire the Right W.H.O.M.

A behavior-based framework for building high-performing teams.

The J.E.D.I. Leader's Playbook
2023

The J.E.D.I. Leader's Playbook

The insider's guide to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Be a J.E.D.I. Leader, Not a Boss
2021

Be a J.E.D.I. Leader, Not a Boss

Leadership in the era of corporate social justice and inclusion.

The Servant Leader's Manifesto
2020 · Bestseller

The Servant Leader's Manifesto

The blueprint for leading with humility, will, and empathy.

Leader Board
2019

Leader Board

The DNA of high-performance teams.

Leading Change: The 4 Keys
2019

Leading Change: The 4 Keys

A practical guide to driving transformation that sticks.

From Authors to Entrepreneurs
Co-authored

From Authors to Entrepreneurs

The personal side of indie publishing, with Stephanie Casher and James W. Lewis.

One Blood
Fiction

One Blood

A novel, published under the pseudonym Qwantu Amaru.

What Omar believes

Three convictions that drive everything.

These are the non-negotiables behind the book, the assessment, the talks — and the way Omar shows up with every reader and every room.

01
Character outlasts everything else.

Skills fade. Titles disappear. Achievements are forgotten. But character endures — and multiplies. Every framework Omar builds starts here.

02
Growth begins with honesty, not inspiration.

Omar does not sugarcoat. He earns the right to challenge by first naming the problem clearly, with evidence and with personal accountability.

03
Abundance in one unlocks abundance in all.

When character grows in one person, it begins to elevate everyone around them. This is the Abundance Exchange — the central belief of this work.

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Omar shares ideas, insights, and honest reflections on growth, character, and leadership across LinkedIn, Instagram, and his website. The conversation is ongoing — and always open.

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