Tye Caldwell
Dr. Tye Caldwell delivers powerful insights on leadership, innovation, and entrepreneurial growth shaped by decades in beauty and tech.
Why you should book Tye Caldwell for your next event
- Gain actionable strategies on leadership, innovation, and scaling from a pioneer who reshaped the beauty and tech landscape.
- Learn how unconventional thinking and purpose-driven resilience fuel long-term success and sustainable business growth.
- Discover practical tools for navigating change, building teams, and creating opportunities in emerging and established industries.
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Entrepreneur, executive coach, industry trailblazer, and global speaker
Dr. Tye Caldwell brings a rare blend of entrepreneur, executive coach, and industry innovator to the stage. With more than three decades transforming the beauty and barbering world, he helped reshape an entire industry through ShearShare, supporting thousands of small businesses across more than 1,017 cities. His background as a master barber-stylist, author, and thought leader gives audiences a grounded perspective on leadership, innovation, and personal growth. Dr. Tye speaks with clarity, energy, and practical wisdom that empowers professionals at every level.
Tye Caldwell
Dr. Tye Caldwell is a pioneering entrepreneur, executive coach, and celebrity master barber-stylist whose influence spans beauty, technology, and leadership. With more than 30 years shaping the beauty and barbering industry, he has built a legacy grounded in innovation and real-world experience. As the post-exit co-founder and former Chief Strategy Officer of ShearShare, he helped transform how independent beauty professionals access workspace. The platform grew to support over 71,000 small businesses in more than 1,017 cities, creating new earning pathways for salon and barbershop owners as well as independent stylists. His work positioned him among the 1% of African-Americans holding a U.S. patent and a respected voice in both technology and beauty.
Dr. Tye’s early years as owner of an award-winning salon in Dallas shaped his understanding of the challenges faced by beauty professionals. Seeing underused workspace and independent stylists needing flexible options, he recognized a gap in the industry that traditional models overlooked. This vision became ShearShare, the first space-as-a-service platform built for beauty and barbering. His commitment to solving real problems for real people remains at the center of his speaking and coaching.
Book Tye Caldwell for Your Event
When you book Tye Caldwell, you bring in a speaker who blends storytelling with direct, practical guidance. His sessions focus on leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, mindset, and the importance of learning through experience. As the #1 best-selling author of Mentored by Failure: A 5-Point Guide to Long-Term Success in the Beauty & Style Industry, he encourages leaders to embrace setbacks as stepping stones rather than roadblocks. His book is widely used as continuing education for beauty professionals and has become a trusted resource for those seeking structured career growth.
In the speaking arena, Dr. Tye’s approach is grounded, strategic, and energizing. He delivers insights shaped by building a tech company, serving as a global educator, and guiding entrepreneurs through personal and organizational transformation. His audiences range from industry conferences and corporate teams to universities and emerging founders.
Leadership, Innovation & Long-Term Growth
Dr. Tye is known for his ability to take complex ideas team development, operational clarity, scaling, and personal discipline and deliver them with clarity and real-world relevance. His leadership philosophy is shaped by decades of mentoring, owning and operating a business, and navigating the evolving beauty and tech landscapes.
His influence also extends into industry governance and education. He is the first African-American male member-elect of the Professional Beauty Association’s Advisory Council, where he contributes expertise to help guide the future of the industry. He continues to guest lecture at barber colleges and hairstyling institutes around the world, offering guidance to the next generation of stylists and entrepreneurs.
His contributions have earned recognition across multiple sectors. Dr. Tye has been named a Pitchbook Black Founder to Watch, a Power 100 Business Leader of Color, and an Inno Fire Award winner. He earned the 2024 Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts Award of Excellence for best integrated mobile experience, was listed as a Top 19 Sharing Economy Startups Founder, and previously led one of Tech Tribune’s Best Tech Startups in McKinney. L’Oréal also acknowledged him as a next-generation technology creator.
Coaching, Mentorship & Personal Mission
Beyond entrepreneurship and innovation, Dr. Tye serves as an executive and wellness coach, helping leaders build sustainable success habits rooted in self-awareness, strategy, and consistent improvement. His coaching blends practical business frameworks with an emphasis on personal well-being, accountability, and resilience. He and his wife, Courtney Caldwell, are also dedicated parents of an NFL athlete, and together they continue to advocate for mentorship, forward-thinking leadership, and opportunities for the next generation.
For events focused on leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, or the future of beauty and business, Dr. Tye Caldwell delivers a powerful and inspiring experience grounded in lived expertise, proven results, and a genuine passion for helping others succeed.
Keynotes
Keynote by Tye Caldwell:
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.
Keynote by Tye Caldwell:
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.
Keynote by Tye Caldwell:
Fortified Founders: How Partnership & Parenthood Strengthen the Startup Journey
Raising an All-American versus raising venture capital . . . is there a difference?
Join award-winning, married startup founders, Dr. Tye and Courtney Caldwell of ShearShare, as they share their firsthand experience winning in the game of life, love, and parenthood. Gain valuable insights, practical strategies, and endearing anecdotes from this dynamic duo as they share their 25-year journey navigating entrepreneurship while balancing family life.
Whether you're a seasoned business owner, aspiring founder, new parent-preneur, or simply curious about the interplay of personal and professional life in the startup realm, this session promises to enlighten and inspire.
The Key to a Successful Co-Founder Relationship
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