Dennis P. Kimbro Ph.D., is the author of Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice and Daily Motivations for African-American Success. As a researcher in the field of management, entrepreneurship and human potential, Kimbro encourages his readers to look within to find the keys that underlie all accomplishment.
Kimbro’s lectures focus on the thoughts, attitudes and actions that will lead to personal and professional effectiveness. By empowering the workforce and developing managerial leadership skills, Kimbro seeks to optimize an organization’s ability to compete in today’s challenging market place. General Motors, Walt Disney, Frito-Lay, Wells Fargo, and sports teams including Notre Dame’s Fighting Irish and the Kansas City Royals are just some of Kimbro’s clients.
A tireless educator, public speaker, and business consultant, Kimbro has made television appearances ranging from NBC’s Today Show and CNN’s Larry King Live to a PBS special. He has been featured on the pages of the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times as well as Newsday and Ebony magazines.
Kimbro studied the methodology of Napoleon Hill, author of the phenomenal best seller Think and Grow Rich in his development of a survey for use among high-achieving black Americans. Kimbro’s research came to the attention of W. Clement Stone, president of the Napoleon Hill Foundation, who commissioned Kimbro to update and complete Hill’s original manuscript on the subject of black achievers that Hill had started before his death in 1970.
Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice is the result of Kimbro and Hill’s efforts. It distills the secrets of success culled from interviews with scores of America’s most notable achievers including Spike Lee, Jesse Jackson, Selma Burke, and Oprah Winfrey. Kimbro seeks to answer the troubling question: How can impoverished black Americans pull themselves out of poverty and reach their full potential?
Kimbro received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Oklahoma, and a doctorate from Northwestern University where he studied wealth and poverty among underdeveloped countries. Kimbro was the first director of the Center for Entrepreneurship, at the Clark Atlanta University Graduate School of Business. He has also served as a visiting professor at the Hampton Institute, Albany State and Kansas State Universities and he lectures extensively in the U.S. and abroad.
Kimbro lives in Atlanta with his wife and three daughters Kelli, Kimberli, and MacKenzie.
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