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Ahmmad Brown

Ahmmad Brown

  • Assistant Professor, MS in Learning and Organizational Change

Biography

Ahmmad Brown is an assistant professor in the Masters and Executive Learning and Organizational Change programs at the Northwestern School of Education and Social Policy. He is also the faculty lead for the Leading Equity and Inclusion in Organizations Certificate (LEIOC) program. His research focuses on organizational inequality and interventions to support inclusion and belonging.

As a practitioner, he is a principal advisor at the consultancy Working IDEAL, where he works with organizations and leaders across sectors on equity- and inclusion-focused change strategy development and implementation. He previously founded Equity Based Dialogue for Inclusion, LLC (EBDI), where he delivered advisory services to leaders of mission-driven and social impact-focused organizations. He has also worked as a social sector consultant and in college admissions.

Education

  • PhD, Organizational Behavior, Harvard Business School
  • MA, Sociology, Harvard University
  • MBA, Education, Stanford University
  • MA, Education, Stanford University
  • BA, Sociology + Anthropology + Japanese, Swarthmore College

Awards and Honors

  • 2024 - First place, William Davidson Institute 2024 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Global Case Writing Competition for "Global Firm and Local Labor: Delivering Paid Parental Leave" (with Ritu Tripathi)