Dr. Melanie Brown, a highly energetic, positive, and passionate professional is committed to the excellence in individuals achieving their personal and professional ambitions. As a professional speaker and leadership expert, Dr. Mel enjoys sharing her knowledge and experience with other small business owners. Dr. Mel created “The Woman’s Club – Successful Small Business Leaders” to empower women small business leaders and entrepreneurs in all their endeavors.

Strategic Topics:

• Seven Ways Women Sabotage Themselves as Small Business Leaders: Identifying factors that are self-sabotaging for women both personally and professionally.
• Gremlins: Identifying and overcoming life’s gremlins that get in the way of success – It’s about making good decisions.Negativity Be Gone: Building and sustaining mutually beneficial positive relationships in today’s highly social and interactive digital world.
• Social and Emotional Intelligence: Understanding self-perceptions, social desirability, and knowing how to interact with others is a small business leader’s lifeline.
• Successful Female Leaders: Based on true accounts of female small business owners, Successful leadership strategies empowers women to be the best that they want to be and enjoying the journey.Power of Three: Dr. Mel’s P3, a simple success formula for participants to use and understand that success is not complicated; it’s a matter of choice. 

The Woman’s Club Successful Female Leaders program empowers women through self-discovery, social knowledge, and a fresh perspective on leadership. Participants connect on a very personal level about how their behavior and mindset launch the course for success or failure. Whether participants work for an organization, own a small business, are thinking of starting a business, and/or are leaders in their communities, this program offers tools to help them be their very best, succeed in their terms, and enjoy the journey along the way.

Value to Participants: Costly small business failures are a result of low emotional and social intelligence and the inability to stay positive and focused. The interconnected strategy topics embody essential characteristics for personal and professional success by identifying common obstacles and solutions to overcome challenges. This program provides participants with a specific leadership road map and compass for success.

Biography: Melanie Brown, DM, Founder & former President of Systems Blueprint Inc., a small business technology consulting firm, faced many challenges for over 12-years while building the organization. As a small business owner, Dr. Mel understands the obstacles that women face in owning a business, balancing personal and professional responsibilities, and taking “me” time. Passionate about small businesses, Dr. Mel completed her doctorate in leadership studies focused on female-owned small businesses. With a diverse background and experience working with many small business owners, Dr. Brown designed a program for women small business leaders to create, grow, and prosper in the marketplace.

Dr. Mel believes that through their strength, courage, endurance, and perseverance to overcome adversity women can indeed make a difference together. Women stand strong with an unbreakable faith that by working together and building warm relationships all women can realize their potential. Giving generously of their time, talent, knowledge, and experience, women collectively reflect an unmovable positive force in their communities, organizations, and businesses.

Awards/Publications: Dr. Mel’s awards and publications include:

Recent Awards:

2009 ABWA Woman of the Year

2009 FHPW Woman of Excellence

2008 Dissertation of the Year Nominee

Publications

(2009, September) The Women’s Club: Successful Small Business Leaders.
2009 ISA Conference – Successful Female Leaders Managing Small Business Challenges

2007 Successful Female Leaders Managing Small Business Challenges: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study.