Leah Brown

Leah Brown

CDTLF, CPBAKY, US

Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator |  Professional Life & Leadership Coach |  Dale Carnegie Trainer |  Workforce & Employee Retention Expert | Author 


For 30 years, Leah Brown has helped inspire over 20,000 people to find and reach their full potential. As a Certified Life & Leadership Coach for Executives and Teams, she uses her expertise in Relationship Building, Communication, Team Building and Leadership Development to teach, train and facilitate improved leadership performance within industries such as the military, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, real estate, finance, and education. Her energetic approach to learning through experience and storytelling engages audiences, involves them in the learning process and creates opportunities to connect with their teams across roles and functions, building stronger relationships. She is consistently recognized for powerful environments of change, growth, performance and excellence for leaders, teams, and individuals. Her full range of curriculum and coaching is designed to help teams build trust, strengthen relationships, and improve collaboration and performance. Leah not only brings out the best in individuals, she builds stronger, high-impact teams.


Leah is a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator, Dale Carnegie Trainer, Instructor for the University of Louisville College of Business Executive Education Program, and faculty member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Organization Management.


Leah was recognized for her professional impact when Louisville's Business First Magazine named her one of the "20 People to Know in Education and Workforce Development" in 2015, and she is a contributing author for the book, "Staying Power: Why Your Employees Leave & How to Keep Them Longer."


Leah’s has one goal in life-and that’s to help people live and lead with courage, authenticity, but MOST of all joy. Living by the motto “I GET TO" instead of "I HAVE TO”, helps Leah keep her own life in perspective.


When she isn’t on the road teaching and coaching, Leah is at home in Louisville, Kentucky enjoying time with her husband, Louis, and their dogs-Ari and Maggie. Each year Leah and her husband are horse owner hosts for the most exciting 2 minutes in sports, the Kentucky Derby.

Leah believes that bacon is a vegetable, fruit is made for pie, your Derby Hat can NEVER be TOO BIG!



For 30 years, Leah Brown has helped inspire over 20,000 people to find and reach their full potential. As a Certified Life & Leadership Coach for Executives and Teams, she uses her expertise in Relationship Building, Communication, Team Building and Leadership Development to teach, train and facilitate improved leadership performance within industries such as the military, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, real estate, finance, and education. Her energetic approach to learning through experience and storytelling engages audiences, involves them in the learning process and creates opportunities to connect with their teams across roles and functions, building stronger relationships. She is consistently recognized for powerful environments of change, growth, performance and excellence for leaders, teams, and individuals. Her full range of curriculum and coaching is designed to help teams build trust, strengthen relationships, and improve collaboration and performance. Leah not only brings out the best in individuals, she builds stronger, high-impact teams.


Leah is a Certified Dare to Lead™ Facilitator, Dale Carnegie Trainer, Instructor for the University of Louisville College of Business Executive Education Program, and faculty member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Organization Management.


Leah was recognized for her professional impact when Louisville's Business First Magazine named her one of the "20 People to Know in Education and Workforce Development" in 2015, and she is a contributing author for the book, "Staying Power: Why Your Employees Leave & How to Keep Them Longer."


Leah’s has one goal in life-and that’s to help people live and lead with courage, authenticity, but MOST of all joy. Living by the motto “I GET TO" instead of "I HAVE TO”, helps Leah keep her own life in perspective.


When she isn’t on the road teaching and coaching, Leah is at home in Louisville, Kentucky enjoying time with her husband, Louis, and their dogs-Ari and Maggie. Each year Leah and her husband are horse owner hosts for the most exciting 2 minutes in sports, the Kentucky Derby.

Leah believes that bacon is a vegetable, fruit is made for pie, your Derby Hat can NEVER be TOO BIG!


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Leaders and their teams are facing new challenges in today's workplace,  including higher than ever turnover rates, integration of new staff and leadership into our existing culture, and reimagining our value to our customers and communities.  How can the leaders of today and tomorrow build courageous cultures?  Are you and your team showing up with your whole selves in a way that reflects identifiable...

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