08: The Difference Between a Job and a Calling with Jennifer Brown

Jennifer Brown is an award-winning entrepreneur, dynamic speaker and diversity and inclusion expert. She is the founder, president and CEO of Jennifer Brown Consulting, a strategic leadership and diversity consulting firm that coaches business leaders worldwide on critical issues of talent and workplace strategy. Jennifer is a passionate advocate for social equality who delves into the “business case for diversity” as she helps businesses foster healthier, more productive workplace cultures. After over a decade of experience consulting to Fortune 500 companies including Toyota, Starbucks, and Capital One, Jennifer wrote her book “Inclusion: Diversity, the New Workplace & The Will to Change” to inspire leaders to embrace the opportunity that diversity represents, and empower advocates at all levels to find their voice and be a driving force in creating more enlightened organizations that resonate in a fast-changing world. In this episode, we talk about how she used the tragedy of having to give up her opera singing career after losing her voice to fuel her work, why the way so many people view their work is a huge waste of human potential, her advice for the entrepreneurial community when it comes to using our voices on behalf of others, and much, much more.