Ahmmad Brown
- Assistant Professor, MS 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, where he is also the faculty lead for the Leading Equity and Inclusion in Organizations Certificate (LEIOC) program.
Ahmmad is trained as a sociologist and organizational behavioralist. He studies inequality in organizations and interventions to support inclusion and belonging. His current research examines racial and ethnic minorities' experiences in historically- and predominantly white organizations, reparative and transformative (rather than punitive) approaches to the experiences of wrongdoing and objectional behavior in workplaces, and dialogic engagement in organizations.
As a practitioner, he is the president and co-founder of Equity Based Dialogue for Inclusion, LLC (EBDI), and a principal advisor at Working IDEAL, through which he supports leaders and leadership teams in the development of organizational structures and cultures that support equity and inclusion.
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