Tye Caldwell
PROFILE
Dr. Tye Caldwell is a pioneering entrepreneur, executive coach, and celebrity master barber-stylist who has spent over 30 years transforming the beauty and barbering industry. As the post-exit co-founder and former Chief Strategy Officer of ShearShare, he helped revolutionize the salon and barbershop space rental model, creating new earning opportunities for independent stylists and business owners in over 1,017 cities.
Dr. Tye’s expertise in business and beauty spans decades. Before launching ShearShare, he owned and operated an award-winning salon in Dallas, Texas, where he saw firsthand the need for more flexible workspace solutions in the industry. His experience inspired the creation of ShearShare, the first space-as-a-service platform designed for beauty professionals.
A thought leader and educator, Dr. Tye is the first African-American male member-elect to the Professional Beauty Association’s Advisory Council and is a frequent guest lecturer at barber colleges and hairstyling institutes around the globe. His #1 best-selling book, Mentored by Failure: A 5-Point Guide to Long-Term Success in the Beauty & Style Industry, is often used for continuing education curriculum.
Dr. Tye’s leadership and contributions to the tech and beauty industries have earned him the 2024 Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts Award of Excellence for best integrated mobile experience, named a Top 19 Sharing Economy Startups Founder in 2024, a 2023 Power 100 Business Leaders of Color, an Inno Fire Award winner, a Pitchbook Black Founder to Watch 2023, Tech Tribune’s 2022 Best Tech Startups in McKinney, and a next-generation technology creator by L’Oreal.
In addition to his impact in technology and beauty, Dr. Tye is an executive and wellness coach, helping entrepreneurs and business leaders develop sustainable success strategies. He and his wife, Courtney Caldwell, are also dedicated parents of an NFL athlete and passionate advocates for mentorship, innovation, and entrepreneurial growth.
SPEAKING TOPICS
Do It Scared
Fear is universal—whether you’re scaling a business, raising a family, or climbing a literal mountain. In this powerful keynote, Courtney and Dr. Tye Caldwell share how fear has been a constant companion on their journey—from navigating the build, scale, and successful exit of an award-winning startup to parenting with purpose an NFL athlete to pushing past physical and mental limits on the world’s toughest climbs as they summited Mount Kilimanjaro. Through real-life stories and hard-earned insights, they challenge the idea that fear is something to avoid. Instead, they show how embracing fear can be the key to achieving audacious goals. Whether you’re launching a startup, stepping into leadership, making a career pivot or life-changing decision, raising the next generation, or tackling a personal challenge that seems insurmountable, the lesson is clear: the greatest breakthroughs happen when you do it scared.
Audiences will rethink fear, reframe risk, and take bold steps toward their biggest goals.
Three Key Objectives:
- Reframe fear as fuel: Learn how fear can be a powerful driver for growth, resilience, and success in all areas of life.
- Take decisive action: Develop strategies to push through uncertainty, take calculated risks with confidence, and make bold decisions in business, parenting, and personal challenges.
- Cultivate a resilient mindset: Gain insights from real-world experiences—scaling companies, raising a family, and conquering mountains—on how to keep moving forward even when the path gets steep.
Intended Audience:
Executives, entrepreneurs, founders, tech professionals, parents, and ambitious leaders looking to break through fear-driven limitations and take bold steps toward their next level of success.
Mentor By Failure
Based on Tye Caldwell’s book, Mentored By Failure: A 5-Point Guide to Long-Term Success in the Beauty & Style Industry, Dr. Caldwell pulls from his personal journey to share five points that he believes are the basis for a long and successful career.
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