Certified Business Entrepreneur Coach and PhD-level Leadership Expert Empowering Entrepreneurs to Build Lasting Wealth
Dr. Latame Phillips was born in Mombasa, Kenya and raised in San Diego, California, in a neighborhood he describes as “basically an immigrant village”–Asians, Africans, Hispanics, all building something from scratch in a new country. That early environment taught him something important: that ordinary people, given the right tools and the right mindset, are capable of extraordinary things.
His path from San Diego to the upper floors of corporate America wasn’t a straight line.
Phillips earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Finance and Management from the University of Southern California, served his country as a U.S. Army Combat Veteran, and went on to hold prominent leadership roles in wealth management before returning to education to earn both his MBA and PhD in Business Entrepreneurship and Business Administration from Trinity University.
Today, he works as a Certified Business Entrepreneur Coach, a TEDx Speaker, and a Best-Selling Author, bringing every chapter of that journey to bear on the work he does with entrepreneurs across the country.
Phillips holds certification as a Business Entrepreneur Coach and has built his practice around his core conviction that financial success is learnable. He works with entrepreneurs, business owners, and aspiring executives who are serious about building real, lasting wealth.
His coaching draws directly from his years in corporate finance and wealth management. He’s sat across the table from high-net-worth clients, watched how institutional money actually moves, and translated that knowledge into frameworks that everyday business owners can actually use. His methodology is practical, direct, and built on real-world leadership experience.
When Phillips works with a client on business strategy, he brings together the structure and discipline of military service and the analytics rigor of corporate finance.
His strategic work focuses on helping clients find the gaps in their businesses, build systems that can scale, and develop long-term financial plans that hold up over time. The frameworks he uses have been stress-tested in his own entrepreneurial journey, refined through years of watching what actually moves the needle inside large organizations, and sharpened through the kind of clear-eyed thinking that military service demands.
Leadership development runs through everything Phillips does. His view of leadership was shaped first in the military, where accountability isn’t optional and your decisions affect the people standing next to you. It was deepened in the corporate world, where he saw firsthand how the wrong culture at the top can dismantle an otherwise strong organization.
He believes that the most powerful agents of change aren’t celebrities or politicians. They’re regular people who decide to lead where they stand.
“I press on because I am the change that I want to see. I know that one man can change the world, one person at a time.”
That philosophy extends well beyond his coaching practice. Phillips is a TEDx Speaker, a Best-Selling Author, and a proud U.S. Army Veteran. Each of those roles is an expression of his commitment to showing up, leading by example, and pushing others to do the same.
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