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Omar L. Harris has been creating high-performance organizations for over twenty years. While working in corporate, start-up, and entrepreneurial endeavors on four continents he developed 20 Team Performance Acceleration Principles, and blueprints for servant leadership and J.E.D.I. leadership that any leader at any stage of their journey can adopt to improve and accelerate group success. Omar is a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach; a bestselling, award-winning fiction author; independent publishing guru; entrepreneur; and twenty-year veteran of the global pharmaceutical industry. His published works are: One Blood, From Authors to Entrepreneurs (F.A.T.E.), Leader Board: The DNA of High Performance Teams, The Servant Leader's Manifesto, and B
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Iris Dorbian
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