Episode 236: Ignite and Accelerate Your Career with Jeannine K. Brown
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From social justice issues to recognizing your own worth in the workplace, Managing Director of diversity and workplace performance consultancy firm, Everyday Lead, Jeannine K. Brown is giving us all the advice we need to step up our career advancement game.
In this episode, Jeannine shares a multitude of tips and nuggets of knowledge on how to light the fire inside to accelerate our careers. She not only gives insight on how we can support one another, but also reveals the responsibilities that women have to each other in order to move the needle forward within organizations. Sit back and gain the expertise you need to make the changes necessary in order to thrive in your life and career!
About Jeannine Brown
Jeannine K Brown is the author of the highly anticipated book, Unstuck and Unstoppable: Six Proven Strategies to Leverage Your Value, Increase Your Visibility and Gain Recognition to Accelerate Your Career.
Jeannine is the Managing Director and founder of the of the talent development and diversity consultancy firm, Everyday Lead. She is a thought leader and active advocate for increasing women and Black professionals to advance their career to fulfilling executive role. She is results oriented with a true passion for people. She works closely with clients, delivering solutions to assist corporations increase retention, decrease attrition cost, attract new talent, and create competitive advantages through the power of inclusion. Jeannine has an active role and voice to champion the importance of diversity, equity, belonging and inclusion among individuals, culture and systems.
Since 2011, Jeannine has provided executive coaching and career strategy services to senior level professionals and executives in many professions to include accounting and finance, entertainment, higher education, law, healthcare, sports, and technology.
Her solutions have helped clients expand their networks, leverage their skills to create value, increase their compensation and get result. With her clients reporting increase confidence, expanded influence, clear and focused performance goals.
Jeannine has held leadership and consulting roles in state and local taxation in government, in public accounting at Deloitte, and in industry as a Tax Director.
Jeannine was named a “Female Success Factor” in Rolling Out Magazine for her work in Diversity and Inclusion, and has been the featured cover story for “Voyage Atlanta” and “Business Men and Women of Color (BMWOC) Magazine”, and is a contributing thought leader and content designer for Leadercast and the Business Leader’s Institute (BLI). Jeannine has held board leadership roles with the National Association of Black Accountants, Inc. (NABA) and program partnerships with the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and the State CPA Societies. Jeannine serves on the Alabama State University Foundation Board of Directors and the City of South Fulton, Georgia Planning Commission.
She has a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Alabama State University and a Masters, Business Administration from Robinson College, Georgia State University. She completed her training as a professional coach at the Institute of Professional Excellence in Coaching (IPEC). Jeannine is an Executive Coach and Public Speaker. She travels extensively as a conference and corporation keynote speaker on leadership and inclusion topics.
QUOTABLES:
“Sometimes we have to turn off the opinions and outrage so we can get back in tune with ourselves.”
“We have to bring compassion to people in order to help them.”
“Our assumptions about others are typically a reflection of ourselves.”
“Women have to be allies to one another.”
“Figure out who you’re supporting in the workplace..”
THE FINAL FIVE:
- What do you think makes someone a good leader? Self mastery. A great leader first leads themselves. They spend time working on personal relationships, work relationships, investing in themselves and mastering how they spend money.
- What is one of your superpowers? To bring fun to stuff! I got that from mom and grandmother. I love bringing laughter to our serious situations.
- Who do you stan? My grandmother (RIP). She was everybody’s grandmother: smart, creative, fun, trustworthy. We called her “baby.” Not just her children, but the adults in the community. She is the blueprint.
- What are some of the things that when you do them, you feel the most like yourself? Laughing. If I can sit around and cut up with my friend, I feel safe and there is no judgement. And also when I’m in jeans and a t-shirt.
- What is something that you love to do that people may be surprised by? Riding my bicycle. I can ride for hours.
How you can contact Jeannine Brown:
Instagram: @jeannine_k_brown
Facebook: Jeannine K. Brown
LinkedIn: Jeannine K Brown
Twitter: @JeannineKBrown
Website: Everyday-Lead.com
Email: jeannine@everyday-lead.com
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