Jennifer Brown

Jennifer Brown

Founder and CEO, Jennifer Brown Consulting

Jennifer Brown is a passionate advocate and social entrepreneur committed to guiding leaders and organizations to create healthier workplace cultures that resonate with current and incoming leaders.

Jennifer founded JBC in 2006, with two Masters degrees (Organizational Development, Vocal Performance) and
experience in both consultative training and non-­‐profit management. She and her team have since facilitated and coached hundreds of leaders all over the world on critical issues of strategy, leadership and integrity. Her focus today is on continuing to build JBC's triple bottom line, identifying emerging workplace trends and building more enlightened organizations with client work and outreach. Her areas of expertise include catalyzing diversity to drive innovation and business results, ERG/Affinity Group development, growing leaders in the new global, generationally-­‐diverse and technology-­‐connected workplace ecosystems, and aligning corporate strategy with individual, team, and societal values.

Jennifer is widely quoted in the media on topics of diversity and inclusion, the changing demographics of the workforce, women's career dynamics, and the LGBT landscape. Her thought leadership on diversity in the workplace has appeared in leading media outlets, such as The Wall Street Journal, Crain's, Forbes and Sirius Radio, with recent TV appearances on Fox News, WCBS and Better TV. As a diverse business owner herself, she is consulted on supplier diversity, drawing on insights from her own identity, as well as her vast network of diversity professionals across industries. Her pro-bono leadership positions include Out & Equal, The Women's Presidents Organization and the social entrepreneurship engine Starting Bloc.