Ronald B. Brown, Ph.D., President of Banks Brown, a management consulting firm based in San Francisco, is a leading authority and innovator in the fields of Leadership Development, Global Diversity, and Organizational Transformation.
Working with numerous Fortune 100 corporations, he has served as a strategic consultant to companies including Procter & Gamble, McDonald’s, Avon Products, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Eastman Kodak, ExxonMobil, E.I. DuPont General Mills, Shell Oil, and Reebok International. For over 28 years, Dr. Brown has worked with C.E.O.s and senior executives. He has conducted leadership development seminars for more than 90,000 managers.
Dr. Brown is an honored faculty member of The Executive Leadership Program for the Asian American Journalist Association. In his career, he has conducted leadership development seminars for companies such as The New York Times, Knight Ridder, Gannett and Times Mirror. For many years, he has been a lecturer and consultant at the Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, American Press Institute, National Association of Black Journalists, Asian American Journalists Association and National Association of Hispanic Journalists. He also serves as a consultant to Unity, Journalists of Color. In addition, Dr. Brown has made numerous presentations to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, American Press Institute and the Newspaper Association of America.
As a result of his long-term relationships throughout the media industry, he has unique and personal access to more than 3,000 print, broadcast and digital journalists around the world.
