Makeda Brown
Location: New York, NY, United States
Biography
Makeda specializes in executive coaching, team effectiveness, and leadership development. As an Executive Coach, she is dedicated to helping leaders unlock their potential. She has helped leaders accelerate their ability to navigate complexity, embrace authenticity, strengthen influence, and lead effectively through change.
In addition to coaching leaders, Makeda partners with intact leadership teams and cross-functional groups to improve alignment, trust, communication, and execution. Her Team Coaching approach helps teams clarify priorities, strengthen accountability, and establish the behaviors required for sustained high performance.
Makeda also serves as a Leadership Development Consultant, partnering with organizations to facilitate leadership initiatives that build capability at multiple levels. Her work supports organizations in developing high-potential talent, strengthening succession readiness, and enabling leaders to lead with greater strategic clarity and organizational impact.
Makeda believes coaching is a powerful partnership that drives growth. Clients find her insightful, practical, and inspiring. Her formula for success includes aligning purpose, values, and behaviors in a manner that drives sustainable results. Makeda is trained in Energy Leadership Coaching, a methodology that supports constructive change in perspectives, emotional reactions, and behavioral patterns.
Prior to coaching, Makeda was an Executive Human Resources Leader with extensive experience developing and implementing talent strategies that maximize business performance. She partnered directly with senior executives across R&D, Sales & Marketing, Manufacturing, and Corporate Functions within global organizations in the Pharmaceutical, Technology, and Food/Hospitality industries. She also served as Global Succession Planning Leader for a large multinational organization, accelerating the development of leadership talent prepared to assume critical enterprise roles.
Niche Areas of Expertise
- C-Suite
- Career Development
- Change Management
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Emotional Intelligence
- Executive Presence
- Globalization
- HR Advisory
Industry Experience
- Aerospace & Defense
- Chemicals
- Education
- Financial Services
- Media & Entertainment
- Nonprofit
- Professional Services
- Retail
- Apparel, Accessories & Luxury Goods
- Biotechnology
Languages
- English
Education
- Pennsylvania State University - BS, Business Management
- Villanova University - MS, Human Resource Development
Certifications
- ICF - PCC
- iPec
- CEC
- Hogan
- 360 Interview
- DiSC
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