SPEAKING TOPICS

• “The Equation: Four Principles for All Successful Businesses”
• “The Pecking Order: How to become an influencer.”
• The Equation for Life
• “Celebrating Kwanzaa, Celebrating Our Heritage”
• “Revisiting Dr. King Is the Dream Attained?”

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• NY Times Best Seller

• NAACP Image Award Winner

• Wrote legendary popular culture tale Fly Girl

• Author of 19 books

• Founder of the Urban Literacy Foundation

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Omar Tyree is a literary icon. The New York Times best-selling author, NAACP Image Award recipient and 2006 Phillis Wheatley Literary Award winner for Body of Work in Urban Fiction, has published 19 books and has over 8 million readers worldwide.

In addition to his track record in publishing Tyree has entered feature film, promotes youth literacy, is a popular speaker and business strategist.

Tyree recently was offered a feature film deal for five of his books. His first film Leslie, based off of one of Tyree’s book characters in New Orleans, LA will begin production in 2010.

Always an advocate for literacy, in 2008 Tyree started the Urban Literacy Project which is dedicated to teaching the importance and the key strategies to help young people become more excited about reading. The initiatives first project was a book released by Just Us Publishing called “12 Brown Boys.” In addition, Tyree has worked with several schools on implementing what he calls the five components to literacy,

Tyree is a popular speaker on the university and corporate circuits. In his “The Equation” lecture, Tyree weaves together a full-proof formula for attaining life-long success in business, as well as everyday living. The success of the speeches over the last 8 years landed Tyree his first non-fiction book deal with John Wiley, the number 1 business publisher in the world. “The Equation: Applying the 4 Indisputable Components of Business Success” was released in January 2009.

One of Tyree’s passions is helping current and aspiring authors go to the next level. Omar Tyree Incorporated serves as a coaching and mentoring program to help authors understand all the inner-workings of publishing and help them develop their book ideas and take them to market.

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WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT OMAR TYREE

» Jackson Sun article

"Omar Tyree tastefully outlined how he has tried to make the written word – the novel – a part of the hip-hop movement, tracing his journey as an author, and ‘second generation' hip-hopper. All along, he took our students through the evolution of hip-hop – from its roots in New York, to its migration out west, and to its evolution (or devolution) to the contemporary ‘bling-bling' era. Mr. Tyree was extremely personable and made himself available to the students and community members in attendance, despite the need to get those 200 pages out to his editor in the midst of an extremely hectic travel schedule. For that, we are extremely thankful. All in all, we could not have asked for a better speaker to serve as the featured speaker during our college's Black History Month celebration."

Mr. Cory Major,
Assistant Dean of Students/Director of Multicultural Affairs of Rhodes College