Today we’d like to introduce you to Jeannine K Brown.
Jeannine started her career practicing corporate taxation with the Alabama Department of Revenue prior to moving to Atlanta to work for Deloitte & Touché. She practiced tax accounting and consulting for 17 years and launched Everyday Lead in 2011. Her passion for people and desire for employees to thrive in the workplace pulled me to start the firm. She wanted to help companies design talent programs that are inclusive and give employees a sense of belonging in order for them to experience purpose, achievement, acceptance, and love at work.
Jeannine K Brown is the Managing Director and owner of the talent and diversity coaching consultancy firm, Everyday Lead. She is a thought leader and active advocate for increasing women and multicultural professionals to executive roles. 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.
Jeannine designs impactful solutions for companies and organizations to respond to their inclusion business case impacting both internal talent pipeline and external corporate engagement through partnerships and customer experience. Everyday Lead designs coaching leadership services to assist employers to build more inclusive cultures by working with employees and teams to increase confidence, expand influence, create focus performance goals and exceed potential. For over ten years, Jeannine has designed content for inclusion dialogs and facilitates development training for professionals in all industries. Jeannine is an Executive Coach and works with professionals with over 10 years of experience seeking to accelerate their careers to upper and executive management roles. Jeannine also works with individuals and teams who are in the launch and growth phases of entrepreneurship.
Jeannine is also a General Partner and owner of Blackprint Capital Management (BCM) a venture capital and consulting firm focused on providing entrepreneurship opportunities to markets who are denied access to capital or overlooked as business owners focused on reinvesting in underrepresented communities. She designs and oversees BCM’s incubator program, Launch.
Jeannine has held leadership and consultative roles in state and local taxation in government, industry, and in public accounting at Deloitte. Jeannine is the author of “Ignite! Your Best Year Ever: Achieve More and Exceed Your Potential”. She has appeared on Showtime’s “THE CIRCUS”, is named a “Female Success Factor” in Rolling Out Magazine for her work in Diversity and Inclusion, and has been the featured cover story for “Business Men and Women of Color (BMWOC) Magazine”, and is a contributing thought leader and blogger for Leadercast and the Business Leader’s Institute (BLI). She’s a regular speaker for Boeing, Inc. Diversity Conference, Working Mother’s Media, National Association of Female Executives (NAFE) and The National Association of Black Accountants, and speaks and provide executive coaching at several other industry and social conferences.
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 is the Vice Chairperson for the City of South Fulton, Georgia Planning Commission. She holds numerous awards and acknowledgement for her roles as a change agent, executing innovative ideas and her leadership abilities.
She has a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Alabama State University, Percy J. Vaughn, Jr. College of Business and a Masters, Business Administration from Georgia State University, Robinson College. 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. Jeannine lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
It has not been a smooth road. I still consider myself in the late start-up phase of my firm with a focus on scaling the business. I primarily work in the business to business space and I have several large corporate clients I’ve served. We are expanding our content offerings and events direct to consumers creating more public offerings which will create growth for the firm. But growing the business and scaling it with the use of technology, automation and dynamic personnel is something I work on daily. I work diligently to stay motivated when things appear slow. There have been moments when I pitched an idea and it’s taken a year or longer for the prospect to sign the contract and become a client. I’m often working against all the other priorities the company and my contact has.
Hiring is a challenge. Sometimes it’s me afraid to trust and turnover specific aspects of the practice to someone else and other challenge is hiring someone who understands the vision of Everyday Lead and the impact I want the firm to make. It’s been slow and fascinating rollercoaster of slow-fast-medium growth. I’ve had years where I had more work than we could deliver and then years when it’s been slower which allowed my team to perfect our current offerings and expand our products and services.
2020, started off fast. We had a lot of work in the pipeline the was being delivered virtually through webinars that ranged from 75 minutes to – three hours. These workplace seminar topics are on diversity and inclusion and executive leadership. We also provide executive coaching, which is primarily done virtually. Late March 2020, we were scheduled to be back on the road through the end of the year delivering dynamic workplace seminars on-site content and speaking at conferences. Due to the current health concerns related to COVID-19 and the social distancing protocols, all of that work has been postponed or canceled for this year. That impacts our business significantly if we can deliver the work and if companies are unable to shift them from in-person to virtual. I’ve been in daily talks with our accountants and attorneys to forecast how this disruption will impact our revenue goals for 2020. But in the meantime, we will continue to reach out to prospects and clients to continue to build in the pipeline of work.
Please tell us about Everyday Lead.
Everyday lead is a minority and women-owned talent and diversity coaching consultancy firm. We have been successful in helping companies and organizations increase the number of women and multicultural professionals advance to upper management and executive leadership roles.
We work closely with clients, delivering solutions to assist corporations to increase retention, decrease attrition cost, attract new talent, and create competitive advantages through the power of inclusion. Everyday Lead has an active role and voice to champion the importance of diversity, equity, belonging and inclusion among individuals, culture and systems. Everyday Lead designs impactful solutions for companies and organizations to respond to their inclusion business case impacting both internal talent pipeline and external corporate engagement through partnerships and customer experience.
Everyday Lead designs coaching leadership services to assist employers to build more inclusive cultures by working with employees and teams to increase confidence, expand influence, create focus performance goals and exceed potential. For over ten years, Jeannine has designed content for inclusion dialogs and facilitates development training for professionals in all industries.
Below is a list of our services:
1. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Consulting and Content Design (i.e., Conscious and Unconscious Bias, Inclusive leadership, etc.)
2. Executive Leadership and Life Coaching – one on one and group coaching using the Enneagram Assessment for personal growth and development.
3. Workplace Seminars – programs designed for corporate and organizational leaders in all stages of their careers. Our specialty is culturally relevant content for women and people of color.
4. Conference Keynote Speaker – We provide fun, high-energy, interactive, experiential and dynamic keynote speeches at conference and events.
What were you like growing up?
I grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and I was a talkative and active child. I was very creative, well-spoken and had the ability to articulate my thoughts and questions with a lot of charisma. This is great now, but was a headache to my teachers. I played sports, basketball, track and volleyball. As a child, teen and young adult, I was interested in everything. I was a quick learner and excelled a lot of different activities and interests. This remains true today as an adult and business owner. I have to reign in my interest and slow down to focus and prioritize in order to not get off course (distracted).
I grew up in a household with my mother, three brothers and my maternal grandparents. My grandfather was a well known Baptist Pastor of one of the largest congregations in Milwaukee, WI. My grandmother was very creative and managed all the church learning and social programs at the Church. I think my brothers and I were exposed to greatness our entire childhoods and learned event planning, public speaking and networking before we knew the formal names for it.
I have always found the unique differences of humans fascinating. So today, I am committed to standing for mankind in order to help design the workplace that allows to experience a sense of belonging and a place for everyone to thrive.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.everyday-lead.com
- Phone: 6789844902
- Email: jeannine@everyday-lead.com
- Instagram: Jeannine_k_brown@yahoo.com
- Facebook: Jeannine @ Everyday Lead
- Twitter: JeannineKBrown
- Other: www.linkedin.com/in/jeanninekbrown
Image Credit:
Professional Headshot – Ebony Stubbs at Rae Images
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