Dr. Kerry Mitchell Brown leads an organizational development consulting firm that partners with leaders and organizations to solve complex organizational and people challenges that interfere with strong, sustainable results and long- term organizational health. Dr.Brown has extensive experience in issues of racial equity, organizational development, and capacity building and has supported numerous organizations that center and prioritize
confronting racism, specifically anti- Black racism, in analysis and action.
As a scholar-practitioner, Dr. Brown draws on and puts management theory, organizational theory, and social movement theory into practice to construct a multidimensional framework for racial equity and organizational transformation that goes beyond slogans and outdated diversity and inclusion practices toward being highly equitable and highly cohesive. Dr. Brown’s approach begins with drawing on the complicated connections and complex architecture between local and national politics, racial inequalities, and the myriad of ways in which these realities manifest in organizations. Dr. Brown possesses a unique talent for accurately assessing organizational needs, key issues, and factors that influence organizations’ responsiveness to social issues affecting organization and leadership performance.
For more than 20 years, Dr. Brown has facilitated discussions and group learning within progressive, social justice, non-profit, higher education, and Fortune 100 organizations about sensitive topics, such as the intersections of race/racism, gender/sexism, and economic privilege/class, as well as politics, democracy, and other social justice issues. She leads processes to enable organizations to make seismic shifts and eliminate the contradictions in their rightful space by collaborating with constituents at all levels to examine how anti-Black racism impacts their work and how they function. These shifts
create organizations’ conditions to reach their maximum productivity and impact through strategic interventions that transform the organization over time.
Dr. Brown holds a Ph.D. in Organizations and Management, an M.B.A., and a BSBA in Finance, and is a Gestalt OSD Certified Practitioner.
