[Research Seminar] ICIE workshop: Queer Cultural Genius, the Unknown Story of the LGBTQ+ Community
Speaker: Dr. Joel A. BROWN, Esq., CLC.
Thursday March 28th 2024 from 1:30pm to 3pm
in Lille Campus, A103
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ABSTRACT
Dr. Joel A. BROWN is the Chief Visionary Officer of Pneumos LLC, a management consulting and coaching company based in San Francisco, USA, and Nairobi, Kenya, specializing in global diversity and inclusion, leadership, change management, and strategic storytelling. He is also a co-founder of the Global Inclusion Certification Program, a certification program designed to teach practitioners how to sustain systems change work globally. Joel is also an adjunct professor at the IÉSEG School of Management in Paris & Lille, France, where he teaches Storytelling for Leaders and Story Listening. As a change agent, Joel works strategically to cultivate innovative, creative, and adaptive environments where the cultural genius of everyone can be harnessed and leveraged successfully.
Best known for his critical analysis, creativity, humor, and his ability to build consensus, Joel has partnered with Fortune 500 Companies, non-profit organizations, and government agencies to help them achieve sustained growth and organizational breakthroughs. His clients have ranged from LinkedIn to the United Nations, and his “sweet spots” have included diversity, equity, and inclusion, emotional intelligence, LGBT inclusion, interpersonal dialogue, and intercultural communication.
Joel is a member of several international think tanks, including D2K, the Diversity Collegium, SIETAR, and the Global Community Dialogue. He is also an Expert Panelist with the Global Diversity & Inclusion Benchmarks. Artistically, Joel is a nationally recognized spoken word poet in the United States. Joel is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and the Virginia School of Law, and received his doctorate in Educational Leadership from Saint Mary’s College in May 2018. His book, “The Souls of Queer Folk: How Understanding LGBTQ+ Culture Can Transform Your Leadership Practice,” was published in the Winter of 2023.