Youngstown State University will bring a trio of prominent speakers to the area in September and October.

Daymond John, CEO of clothing company FUBU and one of the investors on ABC’s “Shark Tank,” will speak at 6 p.m. Sept. 9 at Stambaugh Auditorium for the Thomas Colloquium. Biographer Wil Haygood will speak at 6 p.m. Sept. 25 at Beeghly Center for the Centofanti Symposium. And novelist Amy Tan will speak at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 22 at Stambaugh as part of the Skeggs Lecture Series.

As founder and CEO of FUBU, John has grown the company to more than $6 billion in product sales. He’s the author of five best-selling books, the most recent being “Powershift: Transform Any Situation, Close Any Deal, and Achieve Any Outcome.”

His marketing strategies and ability to build successful brands has made him a highly influential consultant and motivational speaker

John’s lecture is free, but tickets are required and will be available starting Monday at stambaughauditorium.com and the DeYor Performing Arts Center box office.

Haygood has written biographies of entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., U.S. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and prizefighter Sugar Ray Robinson. His book, “Tigerland,” was honored by the Hurston-Wright Foundation and the Ohioana Book Awards, and “The Butler” was adapted into an award-winning motion film starring Forrest Whitaker as Cecil Gaines, who served as a White House butler for eight U.S. Presidents.

He spent 30 years as a national and foreign correspondent for The Washington Post and Boston Globe. In 2022 Haygood was awarded the Ambassador Richard Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, the only U.S. literary award given to a writer whose work is recognized as globally promoting peace.

Admission is free for Haygood’s lecture and no ticket is required, but parking in campus lots for visitors is $5.

Tan’s parents were Chinese immigrants who came to the United States before her birth. While her mother wanted her to become a doctor, Tan decided to pursue a career as a writer.

Her novels “The Joy Luck Club,” “The Kitchen God’s Wife” and “The Hundred Secret Senses” were all New York Times’ bestsellers. She also penned two children’s books, the memoir “The Opposite of Fate” and a book about writing, “Where the Past Begins: A Writer’s Memoir.”

A documentary about her life and career, “Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir,” is available on PBS.

Admission to Tan’s Skeggs Lecture is free, but tickets are required and will be available starting Sept. 8 at stambaughauditorium.com and the DeYor Performing Arts Center box office.