Official Bio

Dr. Joel Davis Brown “The Awareness Agent”

Dr. Joel Davis Brown is a keynote speaker, author, and entrepreneur working to decolonize leadership and foster growth, innovation, and equity. Joel serves as an executive coach, an organizational development consultant, and an “awareness agent,” working at intersectional margins to help the world support dialogue, healing, and collective breakthroughs through bounded and courageous conversations.

As a speaker, Joel blends urbanism and soulfulness with creative expertise and sage advice. Joel’s keynote topics include Transformational leadership, Empathy, LGBTQ+ inclusion, Intercultural Dialogue, Men’s leadership, Resistance, and Personal Healing. His style is poetic and heart-stirring, incorporating storytelling, levity, and new-age wisdom. He prides himself on being disarming and relatable, but with the savvy ability of challenging people to entertain new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new ways of seeing themselves and the world around them.

Joel is a powerful and compelling speaker who has energized audiences at conferences, community gatherings, town hall meetings, and corporate events. Described as mesmerizing, poignant, and “real to the bone,” Joel takes his audiences to the transformational place where their curiosity, aspirations, and humanity want them to go. His goal is to leave people in a better place than when he first met them: to not simply introduce new ideas or offer practical advice, but to courageously commune with hearts and minds and raise the collective vibration in the room. As a citizen of the world, his mission is to always awaken people to their potential and to remind communities of the ever-present opportunity to bring people together.