About

Omar Kinnebrew

Licensed commercial real estate adviser at T. Dallas Smith & Company. Retail tenant representation and retail investment sales across Atlanta and Cobb County.

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Omar Kinnebrew, The Dapper Adviser — licensed commercial real estate adviser in Atlanta
The Story

Why "The Dapper Adviser"

Before commercial real estate, I spent nearly a decade in corporate sales leadership, then built a business of my own from the ground up — one where the entire value proposition was precise fit, honest counsel, and standing behind the details. That's where the name comes from. "Adviser," spelled with an E-R, is deliberate: this is an advisory practice, not a transactional one.

Today I bring that standard to space. As an adviser at T. Dallas Smith & Company — the largest African American-owned commercial real estate firm in the country — I represent retailers, restaurateurs, and business owners in tenant representation and retail leasing, and buyers and sellers in retail investment sales, with a deep focus on Cobb County.

Having signed leases as a business owner myself — and having lived with the consequences — I negotiate like the rent is coming out of my own P&L. Because I know exactly what it feels like when it is.

What I Bring

A negotiator before a broker

Real estate was a second career, and the first one was built entirely on negotiating deals and managing relationships at scale. That's not incidental to this work — it is this work.

  • Eight years of enterprise contract negotiation. At R.R. Donnelley I closed complex, multi-year agreements — including a large multi-year public sector contract — and learned how to sequence asks so the important ones get answered.
  • Sales leadership. Promoted from account representative to assistant regional sales manager, co-managing a nine-person Georgia team and exceeding regional quota three consecutive years. Selected for a leadership program that took 90 people out of 55,000.
  • Operator's perspective. I've founded and run businesses — taking a product from idea to production, and building a company to a team of eight. I've sat in the seat my clients sit in.
  • Formal training in negotiation and strategy. MBA in Marketing and Strategic Management, plus international negotiations coursework at Tecnológico de Monterrey.

I also speak conversational Spanish — useful more often than you'd expect in Atlanta retail, where many of the best operators are running their business in it.

Credentials
  1. GA Real Estate License #445578
  2. T. Dallas Smith & Company
  3. MBA — Mercer University
  4. BS — North Carolina A&T
  5. Retail tenant rep & investment sales
Background

The path here

  • 2025 — presentT. Dallas Smith & Company — Commercial Real Estate Adviser. Retail tenant representation, landlord representation, and retail investment sales across Atlanta, with a concentration in Cobb County.
  • 2017 — presentFounder, bespoke apparel company — Built an Atlanta-based custom clothing business serving a global client base; grew from solo operator to a team of eight, negotiating multi-regional supplier agreements along the way.
  • 2016 — 2017athenahealth — Small Group Sales Executive, selling cloud-based practice management solutions to physician practices.
  • 2014 — 2017OSK Styles — Invented and produced a men's accessory product, taking it from ideation through manufacturing and to market.
  • 2008 — 2016R.R. Donnelley — Rose from Account Representative to Assistant Regional Sales Manager, co-managing a nine-person Georgia sales team and exceeding regional quota for three consecutive years.
  • EducationMBA, Mercer University (Marketing & Strategic Management, 2013). BS, North Carolina A&T State University (Business Management & Spanish, 2007); Division I football; international negotiations study at Tecnológico de Monterrey.
Beyond the Desk

Service & community

I've spent most of my adult life on a board of some kind. Currently I co-chair the Accelerator Social Committee for Entrepreneurs' Organization. Previously I served as Treasurer of the North Carolina A&T National Alumni Association, representing more than 55,000 alumni, and before that as Treasurer of its Atlanta chapter and of the Auditory Verbal Center. I also spent four years as a skilled supervisor with Habitat for Humanity.

It's the same instinct that drew me to advisory work: the useful version of this job is the one where somebody else ends up better off.

Let's talk about your space — or your next asset.

Whether you're opening a first location, renegotiating a lease, or underwriting a retail acquisition, the first conversation is free.

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