Brown Leadership Consulting, LLC, is an independent black woman owned company that specializes in Leadership Consulting and Human Capital Training and Management. Their operational approach is “streamline approaches for seamless results.” Dr. Linda Brown, president of the company, has spent more than 20 years in the field of education and leadership, and committed to holistically touching more lives.
Dr. Brown has served through the ranks as secondary public school instructor to holding leadership positions at a community college and university in the U.S. She is not only an educator, but also a public speaker, trainer and a mentor.
Dr. Brown spoke exclusively to Ib’s Blog about her experiences, Brown Leadership Consulting, LLC, and her abilities to transform the leadership culture of institutions, corporations and organizations.
“We conduct staff development and executive coaching identifying leadership styles and skills,” said Dr. Brown.
She said her company also provides human capital training, which encompasses leadership, team building, diversity and conflict resolution and customer service.
“So if it has to do with people and how they function within an organization or a business, that’s what we do,” Dr. Brown said.
Brown Leadership Consulting, LLC trains teachers on how to be successful leaders in the classroom because, according to Dr. Brown, “When a teacher has good classroom management skills practicing leadership in the classroom, they can accomplish academic goals; and the clients, which are their students, also become very satisfied and successful with the structure for which you set forth.”
“I taught junior high school successfully for 15 years, so I’m very clear about what it takes to be a successful teacher,” said Dr. Brown, who is also an educational trainer.
After Dr. Brown left the classroom, she attended the University of Texas to earn her PhD in Leadership, and since then she has taken on many other leadership positions in education.
“I was Associate Vice President of Continuing Education at Miami-Dade Community College, which is a multi-campus environment; and was Associate Vice Chancellor for Institutional Development at Elizabeth City State University in Elizabeth, North Carolina,” Dr. Brown said.
She said looking at her background being a classroom instructor, and her role in post-secondary institutions—serving in administrative leadership positions across multi-cultural settings—and in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) system, she wanted to do a lot of focus on training in education.
In 2009, she established Brown Leadership Consulting in Washington, D.C., in order to seek opportunities that will enable her to touch more lives she is seeking to transform.
“So that was one of the leading causes for me establishing the company and coming to [Washington] D.C. because all governing agencies that are relevant to my experience, such as the Department of Education [here in Washington] D.C., are the hub where polices are designed to change the nation and the world,” Dr. Brown said.
“The Obama Administration [is] putting the money where their mouth is for supporting education in a way that has never been done since the history of the department’s existence, and [I am] excited about the opportunities to be a part of getting in the door to assist them with some of the initiatives they are trying to do.”
Looking ahead, Dr. Brown said it will be great to have an opportunity to go into neighboring school districts, conduct training for students, teachers, principals and board members.
“You have to train your board because the board makes policies,” Dr, Brown said.
“They make decisions on who are the leaders of individual campuses and these leaders decide the assignment of teachers to each class of students.
“Educators shape the attitudes of students and how they see their role in this forever changing world.”
Dr. Brown said until you get new leadership in place and change the behavior of the existing leaders to think and be in compliance with new policies and initiatives of the Department of Education, we will not see results.
“With time and strong willingness to change for the better, you will see students’ behavior change, you will have an increase retention, less dropout, and more students qualifying to go into post-secondary educational institutions and the world will be a better place,” Dr. Brown said.
“Time is out for saying: ‘Well, you know this is first generation to go into post-secondary education’. This is 2010 and we as a nation have been around for a while.
“So the reality is we have to change the mindset of the leadership of the people who have the authority to make the change in our society and that include our kids.”
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