R. Lee Harris grew up in Manhattan, Kansas and has lived in the Kansas City area since 1977. A 1975 graduate of Kansas State University, Harris began his career with Cohen-Esrey Real Estate Services, LLC, as an apartment manager two weeks after he graduated. Now president and CEO, he is involved in apartment management, development and investment; construction and tax credit syndication on a nationwide scale. Over the course of his career Harris has overseen the management of more than 27 million square feet of office building, shopping center and industrial space and nearly 60,000 multi-family units. As a serial entrepreneur he has started numerous enterprises during the past 40+ years.

In 1991, Harris wrote a book entitled, The Customer Is King! published by Quality Press of Milwaukee. He has mentored a number of business people over the years and has been a long-time participant in the Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program. He and his wife Barb have two grown daughters and one grandson. They are active in their church, community and university.

You can purchase Harris’ current book, An Entrepreneur’s Words to Live By in both printed form and the Kindle version at Amazon.com as well as the eReader versions of iBooks, Sony and Barnes and Noble. The Amazon version can be purchased at http://www.amazon.com/An-Entrepreneurs-Words-Live-By/dp/0615573185/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344200264&sr=8-1&keywords=an+entrepreneur%27s+words+to+live+by