Omar L. Harris

About Omar L. Harris

Most leadership development measures the wrong layer. Personality tests tell you who you are. Strengths inventories tell you what you’re good at. Style frameworks tell you how you tend to behave. None of them reach the layer underneath — the character pattern that produces your personality, your strengths, and your style in the first place. That’s the layer I’ve spent the last decade building tools for. I’m Omar L. Harris — founder of Intent Consulting, creator of the WHOM Character Intelligence Platform, and author of Grow With W.H.O.M, the book introducing the Character Signature framework. After years as a general manager and executive coach working with thousands of leaders across industries and continents, I noticed the same pattern over and over: the existing personal-development tools were beautifully designed for everything except the part that mattered most. So we built a new one. The WHOM framework maps your Character Signature across four pillars — Work-Ethic, Heart, Optimism, and Maturity — and 22 underlying traits. The result is a profile space of 1 in 18.7 quadrillion possible signatures, roughly 560 million times larger than CliftonStrengths. The granularity is the point. Character lives in patterns, not rankings. Here’s what I do: 🟦 Executive coaching for senior leaders ready to grow the layer underneath their playbook 🟦 Organizational assessment & culture work for teams and companies serious about building character at scale 🟦 Keynote speaking on character, leadership, and what comes after personality testing 🟦 The WHOM platform — a character-intelligence engine used by leaders, coaches, and teams worldwide. Take the free assessment at api.characterdna.com. My new book — Grow With W.H.O.M. — is out now. It introduces the Character Signature framework and is paired with the free Character DNA assessment. The first chapter is yours at growwithwhom.com. If you’re tired of the surface and ready to grow what’s underneath — let’s talk.

Experience

1. Founder and Managing Partner

   Intent Consulting Llc

   Jul 2020 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US

   Intent Consulting helps leadership teams and organizations build the layer underneath strategy and skill: character.We work with companies serious about leadership development at scale, using two proprietary instruments — the WHOM Character Signature platform (individual-level character mapping across 22 traits and four pillars) and the Organizational Resilience Index (a 7-dimension culture diagnostic).Our practice areas include executive coaching, leadership-team assessment, custom development programs built on the Intent Consulting Leadership System (ICLS), and culture analytics for organizations navigating growth, transition, or pressure.Recent clients include global pharmaceutical organizations and high-growth companies. We work with leaders who have outgrown the standard commercial frameworks and want something with measurable depth underneath.Founded by Omar L. Harris, bestselling author of Grow With W.H.O.M.

Education

• Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

  MBA

  1995 — 2002

• A.M. Barbe High School

  High School Diploma

  1991 — 1995