Lamont Carey
Leadership Strategist | Award-Winning Poet | Bestselling Author | Founder & CEO, LaCarey Enterprises, LLC
Lamont Carey is a nationally recognized leadership strategist, award-winning poet, bestselling author, and Founder & CEO of LaCarey Enterprises, LLC, a leadership and consulting firm that helps organizations strengthen leadership, inspire transformation, and build meaningful connections through the power of storytelling.
Drawing from more than two decades of experience in executive leadership, public service, and the arts, Lamont partners with corporations, government agencies, educational institutions, foundations, and nonprofit organizations to develop leaders, improve organizational culture, and create strategies that produce lasting impact.
Before founding LaCarey Enterprises, Lamont served in executive leadership roles as Director of the Mayor's Office on Returning Citizens Affairs and Director of the Mayor's Office of Community Affairs in Washington, D.C. Throughout his public service career, he built partnerships across government, business, and community organizations while leading initiatives focused on leadership, opportunity, workforce development, and community engagement.
Lamont first gained national recognition as a spoken-word artist through his powerful poem I Can't Read, featured on Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam. For more than two decades, the poem has been shared by educators across the country, inspiring tens of thousands of students through conversations about literacy, perseverance, and the power of education. His creative work also includes The Streets Keep Calling Me, She Says She Loves Me, and the bestselling urban fiction series Predator or Prey and Laws of the Street.
Today, Lamont brings together executive leadership, storytelling, and lived experience to deliver keynote presentations, leadership development programs, executive coaching, and strategic consulting that equip organizations to lead through change, strengthen culture, and create measurable impact.
His work is grounded in one belief:
Every person has a story. Every story has value. Every voice has the power to create opportunity.