Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Future of Work, Talent Optimization
Jennifer Brown
Founder & CEO, Author, Speaker
Jennifer Brown is an award-winning entrepreneur, sought-after speaker and diversity and inclusion expert. Her consulting firm Jennifer Brown Consulting (JBC) designs and executes inclusion strategies for some of the world’s largest companies, covering critical issues of talent, workplace strategy and systems change methodology.
Jennifer is the author of two best-selling books on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace and The Will to Change (2017) and How To Be An Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive (2019), shortlisted for the O.W.L. Award, and winner of the 2019 Nautilus Book Awards’ Business & Leadership category.
In 2021, she co-authored a new groundbreaking book Beyond Diversity: 12 Non-Obvious Ways To Build A More Inclusive World, with Rohit Bhargava. It became a Wall Street Journal bestseller and was also listed in Inc.’s 22 Books to Read (or Reread) in 2022.
She hosts the hugely popular podcast, The Will to Change, which is downloaded by nearly 15,000 listeners per month, and is a sought-after Keynote speaker for conferences, leading research institutions and business schools on topics as wide-ranging as unconscious bias, changing demographics, specific communities of identity including women, people of color, LGBT individuals, generations like Millennials, and the role of male leaders in change efforts.
Her work has featured in NYT, Forbes, Inc, The WSJ, Chicago Tribune, Diversity Journal, Fox News, WCBS.
She lives in New York City with her partner of over 20 years, Michelle.
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Jennifer Brown is an award-winning entrepreneur, sought-after speaker and diversity and inclusion expert. Her consulting firm Jennifer Brown Consulting (JBC) designs and executes inclusion strategies for some of the world’s largest companies, covering critical issues of talent, workplace strategy and systems change methodology.
Jennifer is the author of two best-selling books on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Inclusion: Diversity, The New Workplace and The Will to Change (2017) and How To Be An Inclusive Leader: Your Role in Creating Cultures of Belonging Where Everyone Can Thrive (2019), shortlisted for the O.W.L. Award, and winner of the 2019 Nautilus Book Awards’ Business & Leadership category.
In 2021, she co-authored a new groundbreaking book Beyond Diversity: 12 Non-Obvious Ways To Build A More Inclusive World, with Rohit Bhargava. It became a Wall Street Journal bestseller and was also listed in Inc.’s 22 Books to Read (or Reread) in 2022.
She hosts the hugely popular podcast, The Will to Change, which is downloaded by nearly 15,000 listeners per month, and is a sought-after Keynote speaker for conferences, leading research institutions and business schools on topics as wide-ranging as unconscious bias, changing demographics, specific communities of identity including women, people of color, LGBT individuals, generations like Millennials, and the role of male leaders in change efforts.
Her work has featured in NYT, Forbes, Inc, The WSJ, Chicago Tribune, Diversity Journal, Fox News, WCBS.
She lives in New York City with her partner of over 20 years, Michelle.
