One of the greatest gifts you can give another human being going through adversity is hope

From a life on the streets, to imprisonment, to recognition as a best-selling author and speaker, learn how redemption, hope, and a second chance changed Shaka’s life.

 

Words of redemption

Check out Shaka’s curriculum, essays, and books, including his best-selling memoir, Writing My Wrongs.

Speeches to inspire

Hear Shaka’s honest, insightful perspective on prison reform, atonement, and the root causes of a system that imprisons people, internally and externally.

Changing company culture

From company culture to community engagement, Shaka will help you identify, align, and execute a positive, people-based strategy.

VIDEOS

Give yourself permission to let go of the things you can’t control while embracing the empowering energy of being in control of how you think and feel

SHAKA SENGHOR

What People Are Saying

 
 
Testimonials

“[SHAKA] WAS MAYBE THE MOST INSIGHTFUL PERSON I HAD EVER SPOKEN TO ABOUT HOW TO BUILD A CULTURE AND RUN AN ORGANIZATION. HE HAD BEEN THE CEO OF A PRISON GANG, A TOUGH ORGANIZATION TO MANAGE.

— BEN HOROWITZ, CO-FOUNDER OF ANDREESSEN HOROWITZ AND AUTHOR OF WHAT YOU DO IS WHO YOU ARE

“SENGHOR’S FEARLESS SELF-REFLECTION SERVES AS A CAUTIONARY TALE FOR THE YOUNG AND A GUIDEBOOK FOR ANYONE SEEKING ATONEMENT. HIS LESSONS ABOUT OWNING YOUR FAILURES AND TAKING ACCOUNTABILITY RESONATE IN EVERY WALK OF LIFE, FROM THE STREETS TO THE BOARDROOM.”

— MELLODY HOBSON, PRESIDENT OF ARIEL INVESTMENTS

“Our conversation [for Super Soul Sunday] was one of the best I’ve ever had–not just in my career, but in my life.”

- OPRAH WINFREY, O MAGAZINE

``Shaka Senghor is a once-in-a-generation leader, championing a cause that will define a generation: mass incarceration. Behind prison walls, Writing My Wrongs is already taking its place alongside the memoirs of Malcolm X and George Jackson as must-read literature. In the broader society, its publication will propel him into the ranks of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michelle Alexander—powerful visionaries whose words are shaking the foundations of our nation's understanding of itself.``

-Van Jones, CNN Contributor, bestselling author of The Green Collar Economy and Rebuild the Dream

 

Shaka Senghor is the President of Shaka Senghor, Inc. His memoir, Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death and Redemption in an American Prison, debuted on The New York Times and The Washington Post Best Seller Lists.