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.
Ahmmad engages in both scholarship and practice. As a scholar, his research methods often include action-oriented and user-centered approaches to support equity, inclusion, and belonging. His work has appeared in the Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice and the Organization Development Review. His award-winning teaching material has been published by the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan.
As a practitioner, he is a principal advisor at the consultancy Working IDEAL, where he works with organizations and leaders across different sectors to foster belonging in the workplace. He previously founded EBDI, where he and his team guided leaders of mission-driven and social impact-focused organizations. He also worked as a social sector consultant and in college admissions.
Education
- PhD in Organizational Behavior, Harvard University, 2022
- MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2015
- MA in Education, Stanford Graduate School of Education, 2015
- BA, Swarthmore College, 2007
Select Publications
Brown, Ahmmad, and Ty-Juana L. Flores. "'Both-And' Support for Black Students: Belonging and Cross-Racial Interaction through Race-Specific Programming." Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice (2024): 1-13.
Ninh, Amie, and Ahmmad Brown. "A Leader's Choice: DEI Paradigms and the Consequences of Misalignment." Organization Development Review 56.4 (2024).
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)