Devon Brown
Client Advisor
Devon Brown is a highly regarded organization development consultant, executive coach, leadership development expert, and facilitator, dedicated to growing and developing individual leaders and transforming teams and organizations. With 20+ years of experience, Devon understands how to transform people, teams, and organizations.
Devon helps leaders and organizations be successful and achieve results by taking a systems approach to understanding the behaviors and levers that will have the greatest impact and drive individual and organizational change. Additionally, Devon brings a background in neuroleadership, and uses his training and experience with neuroscience to help his coaching clients achieve their goals and organizations make brain-friendly human capital and HR decisions.
In addition to working with Empactful Advisors, Devon works as a consultant and executive coach with his own business, Inciting Leaders, a leadership and organization development firm that uses neuroscience and systems thinking to builds capacity, align teams, and transform organization. Previously Devon worked with several leading global human capital consulting firms including Linkage, Inc., and the NeuroLeaderhship Institute where Devon focused on helping global F100 companies revolutionize performance management to enable feedback and drive performance with transformative conversations.
Devon holds a coaching certificate from the NeuroLeadership Institute and is trained to deliver and interpret a variety of assessments, including Hogan, DiSC, EQ-i/360, and the Kirton Adaptor-Innovator tool. Devon has worked across most industries transforming organizations big and small, having focused particularly oil & gas, healthcare, financial services, and agriculture. Some of Devon’s clients have included: Nintendo, Amway, Accenture, Microsoft, Sunovion, Regeneron, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Dot Foods, Toyota, Mercedes Benz, Lenovo, HCA, Whirlpool, State Farm, Farm Credit System, CoBank, The Wonderful Company, Frito Lay, Sandoz, Siemens, Fidelity, McDermott Energy, Verizon, Ledcor, American Bankers Assoc., USDA, SAP Ariba, Banco Popular, Accel-KKR.
Devon lives in Boulder, CO and holds a PhD and Masters in Organization Communication from the University of Colorado, at Boulder, and a Bachelor's in Conflict Studies from Earlham College.