RONALD B. BROWN, Ph.D., is a leading expert and innovator in the fields of Leadership Development, Diversity and Inclusion, and Organizational Transformation. He is the founder and President of Banks Brown, a management consulting firm that specializes in providing leading-edge skills to optimize the performance of leaders and organizations.

As a consultant, Dr. Brown assists executives, senior managers, and planning groups in developing strategies to manage changing organizational cultures. He is a recognized authority in helping clients in building comprehensive strategies to mobilize various dimensions of business diversity, employee diversity, and global diversity. Working throughout his career to expand personal and organizational capabilities, he has provided leadership development services and seminars for over 90, 000 managers. He has served as a prime consultant to major Fortune 100 corporations, such as The Procter & Gamble Company, Avon Products, Inc., McDonald’s Corporation, Coca Cola USA, General Electric Plastics, Kaiser Permanente, Shell Oil Company, Eastman Kodak Company, General Mills Inc., Motorola, Inc., ExxonMobil, The Associated Press, Ernst & Young, Arthur Anderson, Pfizer Inc., Darden Restaurants, People Magazine, NiSource Inc., Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Reebok International, Ltd.

Earlier in his career, Dr. Brown was founder and Senior Partner of Pacific Management Systems, a management development and training firm that was a vanguard in addressing the organizational issues of the multicultural workforce and career development strategies for Women, Hispanics, African-Americans, and Asian Americans. This was the seminal work for the conceptualization of Diversity as a major businesspriority.

Dr. Brown serves as an advisor to many civic organizations and is a past member of the Board of Directors of The Overseas Development Council. He has traveled extensively to over 50 countries around the world, covering Asia, Europe, Latin America and Africa.

Dr. Brown holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a M.A. and B.S. from Michigan State University.