- Jennifer Brown
Founder and CEO - Dennis Najjar
CFO - Brian Sorge
Managing Director/EVP - Western Region - Sebastian Giordano
Managing Director/EVP - Eastern Region - Emily Przybylinski
Social Marketing + Technology - Kalpana Shanmugham
Senior Consultant - Julnar Rizk
Senior Consultant - Gloria Cotton
Senior Consultant - Brittany Emal
Senior Consultant - Mike Davis
Senior Consultant - Alison Oxman
Client Services Coordinator, Eastern Region - Sharon Smith-Mauney
Client Services Coordinator, Western Region
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Jennifer Brown Consulting is a strategic leadership and diversity consulting firm founded in 2004 to guide the efforts of Talent Management, HR, Diversity and Employee Resource Group champions and their business partners in creating more inclusive and innovative workplaces for the future. JBC counts among its client base many employer-of-choice organizations, and maintains a powerful network of nearly 3000 internal organizational and external change agents who share the organization’s commitment and partner with the JBC team to design and deliver innovative training, coaching, research and events.
Sharon Smith-Mauney, Client Services Coordinator, Western Region
Sharon Smith-Mauney brings more than 20-plus years of diversity, project management and communications experience to her role as Business Development and Client Coordinator for Jennifer Brown Consulting. As Director of Diversity and Outreach for the United States Tennis Association, a post she held for 18 years, Sharon successfully launched a groundbreaking diversity and inclusion program, creating strategies, partnerships, initiatives and policies that paved the way for diversity and outreach practices that are still considered the gold standard throughout the USTA and the broader tennis industry. In addition, she has developed curriculum, created outreach programs and served as a diversity facilitator for organizations such as the National Consortium for Academics and the Solano County Department of Health among others. She recently served as Director of Training for a national non-profit organization focused on creating programs and opportunities for children in low income, urban elementary schools.
A self-proclaimed “barrier-breaker,” Sharon has been a long-standing community advocate for racial equality and has served on behalf of organizations such as the Coalition of Alamedans for Racial Equality and the African American Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame. She helped found the Alameda Multicultural Center, which is still active today.
In addition to her work non-profit and community organizations, Sharon co-founded Black Goddess Communications, a cause-related, African-American and woman-owned public relations agency targeting minority businesses and organizations with a strong multicultural outreach component.
Sharon is an award winning writer with a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism and Mass Communications. She resides in Alameda, California just across the bay from San Francisco with her husband and college-aged son.
