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About Omi
Omi Bell
is a systems disruptor. She’s blazed new ways of thinking in the educational, political, and financial systems and has scaled over 100 businesses across sectors. Omi has worked as a K-12 Educator, Patent Examiner, Spoken Word Artist and is a Computer Scientist and nonprofit executive. Between creating the first teepee for women on AirBnB, launching a business as a single mom of three, and building tech platforms for equitable financial capital, Omi practices the mantra she preaches to ‘resist being average’. Her most recent disruption, Black Girl Ventures Foundation, transforms entrepreneurship by reimagining the way black and brown women founders get access to financial and social capital.
As an inspirational speaker, serial entrepreneur, and one of the 8 original Google Digital Coaches, she has trained over 5,000 entrepreneurs to rethink their earning potential; held over 300 events for executives to disrupt their thinking; and helped hundreds of black and brown businesses get funding to scale. She trots the globe–from Oman to Philadelphia—speaking to founders and executives, teaching them how to defy ‘average’ and create lasting change in their systems, industries, and communities.
She was named one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Business by Entrepreneur Magazine and acknowledged as A Rising Brand Star by Adweek. She has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Yahoo Finance, Inc Magazine, Politico Live, The Washington Business Journal, among others.
She is on the board of Mahlika and Color of Chrons and Chronic Illness and founder SheRaise.com. Omi is the host of a Dose of Disruption, a podcast helping leaders resist the urge to be average by disrupting their thought patterns and self-talk.
Awards
Top 100 Powerful
Women in Business
by Entrepreneur Magazine
Entrepreneur of the Year,
Technically DC
Minority Female
Professional of the Year,
U.S. Minority
Chamber of Commerce
The Spectrum Circle Award
for Innovative Women in
Business, Spectrum Circle
24 Rising Brand Stars
2018, Adweek DC
Top 40 Power Women
in Tech, DCA Live
Washington's New Guards, Washington Business Journal
US Black Chambers
Power 50 Award 2024
Originate, Motivate, Innovate:
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