Norfolk, Va. -  Dennis Kimbro, best-selling author of Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice, will deliver the keynote address at Norfolk State University’s Fall Convocation at 12:30 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 10 at the L. Douglas Wilder Performing Arts Center. At approximately 12:15 p.m., the program will be Web cast live at www.nsu.edu. Fall Convocation is designed to formally welcome and induct new students to the university family.

A noted author and business professor at Clark Atlanta University, Kimbro’s expertise is in the fields of management, entrepreneurship and human potential. He studied the methodology of Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich. Using Think and Grow Rich as a reference, Kimbro developed a survey to use among peak black Americans to discover how impoverished black Americans can pull themselves out of their poverty and reach their full potential. Kimbro was commissioned to update and complete Hill’s original manuscript. The book, Think and Grow Rich: A Black Choice, became the results of Kimbro’s and Hill’s efforts. The book distills the secrets of success contained in the lives of peak performing men and women, and reveals how readers can utilize these keys to make their dreams come true.

Kimbro is also the author Daily Motivations for African American Success, Making the Great Great: Strategies for Extraordinary Achievement, and What Keeps Me Standing: A Black Grand-mother’s Guide to Peace, Hope and Inspiration.

His writings have influenced readers internationally and in the boardrooms of some of the nation’s top companies. He has appeared on the Today Show, Larry King, CNN, and has been featured in Success!, the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and USA Today on numerous occasions to share the keys of success and achievement.

His awards and honors include various awards from the business community, the Dale Carnegie “Personal Achievement” Award, and the 2005 H. Naylor Fitzhugh Award, which is given to the top black business professor in the nation.

Kimbro received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Oklahoma and his doctoral degree from Northwestern University. He is married and has three daughters.