Our Presenters

Jamar Cobb-Dennard is a business broker at Indiana Business Advisors. The company has 40 years of experience helping more than 2,100 business owners prepare, value, and sell their businesses.

As a leadership consultant, Jamar specializes in teaching business owners how to advance their careers through effective leadership, networking, sales and communication skills. Over the last 4 years, Jamar has also been called on by Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, the National Association of African-American Insurance Agents, Bethany Christian Services, and others to discuss diversity and inclusion strategies.

Jamar has led trainings for Veolia Water, the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, Indianapolis Power and Light Co., College Mentors for Kids, the American Lung Association, Meeting Planners International, the Indiana CPA Society, the American Cancer Society and many more organizations with programs that have educated and inspired. Prior to his time as an independent speaker and trainer, Jamar worked for Dale Carnegie Training, National Seminars Group, and CJ McClanahan. 

Jamar started his career in sales and marketing. Cobb-Dennard routinely helped companies grow 40% in the first year of his engagements, and was himself a top-10 award-winning salesperson. 

Jamar is a Stanley K. Lacy Executive Leadership Series graduate, was recognized as a 2013 Emerging Leader by 100 Black Men, an Indianapolis Business Journal Forty-Under-40 honoree, and a 2017 Trailblazer by the Alpha Foundation for the Youth. 

Jamar earned his Juris Doctorate from the Indiana University McKinney School of Law.

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