Episode Details

In this episode we’re joined by Omar L. Harris. Omar is the Founder and managing partner at Intent Consulting, a firm dedicated to improving employee experience and organizational performance. He has more than 20 years of experience as a global pharmaceutical executive.

Omar is also a speaker and award-winning author. He’s written several books including “Be a J.E.D.I. Leader, Not a Boss: Leadership in the Era of Corporate Social Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.” Omar is a self-described seeker who believes leadership is the journey and that leaders should never quit on developing themselves.

On this episode of the Live. Love. Engage. podcast:

• Omar’s personal and professional history.
• What Omar became interested in early in his career.
• How having isolated cultural experiences influenced him.
• Why Omar says there are multiple paths to success.
• Why you have to assimilate before you can innovate.
• How leadership values vary across contexts.
• How leadership still needs to catch up with diversity.
• Why Omar says his work is fundamental.
• How the ego-driven approach is being taken over by a new way of leadership.
• Why now is the time for leaders to embrace new principles.
• How to embrace adversity in the workplace and why.
• Why being aligned with your partner is important as an entrepreneur.
• What drives the entrepreneurial instinct?
• How finding meaning and a sense of contribution plays into job satisfaction.
• The industries in which diversity is still lacking and why.
• What they advocate for at Intent Consulting.
• The experience Omar wants every leader to have.

Connect with Omar

Website: https://www.omarlharris.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/omarlharris/

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