Jennifer Brown
An award-winning speaker, bestselling author, and globally recognized authority on inclusive leadership and workplace culture. She’s advised top organizations like Google, IBM, and the Gates Foundation, and is the author of How to Be an Inclusive Leader and Beyond Diversity.
Jennifer Brown (she/her) is the trusted voice organizations turn to when workplace culture is at a crossroads. With over two decades of experience guiding leaders through moments of tension, transformation, and opportunity, Jennifer has become a leading authority on building inclusive, future-ready workplaces where everyone can thrive.
She is the bestselling author of four influential books, including Inclusion, the award-winning How to Be an Inclusive Leader (now in its second edition), and the Wall Street Journal bestseller Beyond Diversity. Her writing dives deeply into identity, privilege, equity, and practical tools for lasting organizational change.
As a sought-after keynote speaker, Jennifer has delivered impactful talks for Google, LinkedIn, IBM, Toyota, Columbia Business School, Kellogg, and Vanderbilt. She also serves as a strategic advisor to global brands, including L’Oréal and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Her signature framework, the Inclusive Leader Continuum™, is used across industries to guide individuals and organizations from awareness to sustained action. From the C-suite to the front lines, Jennifer empowers leaders to bridge the gap between business imperatives and human needs—cultivating cultures of resilience, authenticity, and trust.
In an era of rising polarization and rapid change, Jennifer brings a steady, strategic presence. She helps companies navigate complex conversations, embrace difference, and create workplaces where people feel seen, valued, and safe.
Jennifer is also the host of The Will to Change podcast, with nearly 15,000 monthly listeners tuning in for honest conversations about leadership, identity, and the future of work.
She lives in New York with her partner of 25 years, Michelle.
Jennifer Brown (she/her) is the trusted voice organizations turn to when workplace culture is at a crossroads. With over two decades of experience guiding leaders through moments of tension, transformation, and opportunity, Jennifer has become a leading authority on building inclusive, future-ready workplaces where everyone can thrive.
She is the bestselling author of four influential books, including Inclusion, the award-winning How to Be an Inclusive Leader (now in its second edition), and the Wall Street Journal bestseller Beyond Diversity. Her writing dives deeply into identity, privilege, equity, and practical tools for lasting organizational change.
As a sought-after keynote speaker, Jennifer has delivered impactful talks for Google, LinkedIn, IBM, Toyota, Columbia Business School, Kellogg, and Vanderbilt. She also serves as a strategic advisor to global brands, including L’Oréal and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Her signature framework, the Inclusive Leader Continuum™, is used across industries to guide individuals and organizations from awareness to sustained action. From the C-suite to the front lines, Jennifer empowers leaders to bridge the gap between business imperatives and human needs—cultivating cultures of resilience, authenticity, and trust.
In an era of rising polarization and rapid change, Jennifer brings a steady, strategic presence. She helps companies navigate complex conversations, embrace difference, and create workplaces where people feel seen, valued, and safe.
Jennifer is also the host of The Will to Change podcast, with nearly 15,000 monthly listeners tuning in for honest conversations about leadership, identity, and the future of work.
She lives in New York with her partner of 25 years, Michelle.
Ensuring Equity and Belonging in the Future World of Work
The demand for equity is growing louder by the day. To build a more inclusive and equitable future, leaders in positions of power and influence must play an active role in disrupting the status quo and challenging inequitable systems and behaviors.
By having intentionality around creating equitable spaces, places, and corporate cultures, it also forces us to uncover our own prejudices and biases and take a hard look at ourselves and our participation in...
Inclusive Leadership: Evolving Courageously, Imperfectly and Failing Forward
How to Be An Inclusive Leader
The time for authentic, inclusive and intentional leadership has never been more urgent. The mindset and skills needed to be an inclusive leader will be top of mind in nearly every organization as we move deeper into the twenty-first century and respond to the emerging challenges we face as organizations and leaders. Becoming an inclusive leader requires learning and reflection, and the willingness to take risks and make mistakes, to do...
Powerful Partnerships for Change: How Inclusion and Belonging Drive Healthy Workplaces
Employees are demanding a kind of leadership we’ve never seen, with inclusiveness at its core. What this looks like in practice is getting comfortable being uncomfortable, leaning into the discomfort and inviting the new, the unfamiliar, and the challenging so that we can evolve and build healthy workplaces of inclusion and belonging.
People managers, teams and leaders at all levels must engage in the work of inclusion, and identify actions they can take to...
Inclusion through Change: Working Together to Build Cultures of Belonging
Building equitable, diverse and inclusive cultures within organizations is a process that requires all of us. Allies, advocates and leaders at all levels must understand how to support inclusion within their organization. Everyone has a stake in this conversation, and a role to play.
Jennifer uses her four-stage Inclusive Leader Continuum as a guide and an effective roadmap to highlight actionable and tangible steps we can all take in our journey as aspiring allies....
Everyone Has a Diversity Story: Finding Your Voice in the Workplace
To give their fullest contribution, employees must feel they can bring their full selves to work; however, research shows many do not feel comfortable doing so. This means that they are spending valuable energy every day minimizing or managing aspects of their own diversity—of identity, background, and experience—in order to succeed.
This takes a particular toll on diverse talent—women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, and people with disabilities—at a time when organizations...
