Kadeem Leslie is a global entrepreneur, real estate investor, bestselling author, speaker, and educator on financial freedom. He is the author of Full Student: How I Run a Six-Figure Business and Still Get Straight A’s, a book built from years of research, experience, and systems that help students and professionals optimize learning, income, and life design. His work challenges people to live a FULL life — maximizing time, impact, health, earnings, relationships, and joy every year.
Kadeem’s companies manage over $12 million in assets under management, spanning strategic real estate ventures, property management, and multiple income streams that support financial independence and mobility. He began his entrepreneurial journey while in college, using creative business models like short-term rentals and arbitrage to fund growth and ultimately scale across states and borders.
Born and raised in Jamaica, Kadeem’s drive for financial freedom took shape early. He built his first ventures while balancing academics, leadership roles, and artistic pursuits. He holds a degree in economics and music performance, and his entrepreneurial success helped him retire ahead of many peers and travel the world, working with clients, speaking on stages internationally, and living from cities across multiple continents.
Beyond business, Kadeem is an accomplished cellist with over a decade of performance experience, including playing for visiting heads of state and leading orchestral roles. His artistic discipline informs his approach to leadership, creativity, and life mastery.
Kadeem also creates educational content, mentorship programs, and free trainings designed to help others build systems of wealth and freedom from scratch. He continues to inspire a global audience through books, podcasts, courses, and live events.
"Whether you think can, or whether you think you can't, both are true." Henry Ford
