About John-Leslie Brown

The internationally renowned speaker Mr. John-Leslie Brown has reached number one on Amazon in the Motivational Growth & Spirituality category, with the release of his new book The H.A.R.V.A.R.D. Effect. This page turner presents a collection of powerful tools for achieving personal and professional goals.

As an international speaker, John-Leslie has inspired all age groups for the last two decades. He has been speaking professionally since the early age of ten and was recently named one of the top forty speakers under the age of forty in America. A profound communicator with the uncanny ability to deliver high powered motivational messages with infectious passion, John-Leslie enjoys equal popularity among all age groups and has experience of presenting both before corporate executives and young adults. He has received numerous awards for his ability to move young adults enabling them to achieve their full potential including the Los Angeles Clippers Humanitarian Neighborhood Alliance Awards from Success Teen International, a Best Speakers Award from Toast Masters International and an Emmy in the category of Social TV Experience for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media for his appearances on Joseph Gordon Levitt’s TV Show Hit Record on Pivot TV.

CEO of Keller Williams Publishing Geoff Woods said that The H.A.R.V.A.R.D. Effect is by far one of the most complete, concise yet powerful accumulation of tools that anyone needs to apply to their daily lives. If you are willing to put in the effort to achieve your goals this book will definitely provide you the extensive set of tools required to achieve them. John-Leslie takes notes from the lives of different successful, wealthy, goal-oriented people and how they use these tools in their everyday lives. He further added that one of the key interesting aspects of the book is its intense focus on creating a hundred year plan and developing a strategy for generational wealth by making a historical contribution to mankind.

The book is a highly recommended for entrepreneurs and college students and is available on Amazon and Kindle. The book is to be followed up by an intensive longitudinal research study, based off of the coaching program aimed at measuring the impact that the teachings of the book have on the participants of the study over the course of 10 years.

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Advisory Team

Dr. Myra White

Chief Measurement Advisor

Dr. Myra White, Leadership Expert: Dr. White has taught leadership and management in Harvard University's ALM management program for over 10 years. Her innovative courses have made her a popular professor and in 2007, she was the Harvard recipient of the 'JoAnne Fussa Distinguished Teaching Award'. In 2010 she was selected as 'Woman of the Year' by the Harvard Women's Empowerment Network. She is also a clinical instructor in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. White has a Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School (graduating a year before President Barack Obama), and an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Northwestern University.

While a graduate student at Harvard, Dr. White started a successful computer consulting business and founded a computer start-up company with two partners that provided a 5000% return on investment. In 2000 she founded Work Intelligence, Inc. which provides executive training to international clients and advice on performance management to businesses. In 2006 she founded Behavior Scientific which uses innovative assessment tools that she has developed to measure leadership potential. Dr. White will be measuring the progress of the participants in our longitudinal study.

Dr. Farrah Gray

Chief Achievement Advisor

Farrah Gray was named as one of the most influential Black men in America by the National Urban League. Ebony Magazine and Black Enterprise recognized him as an entrepreneurial icon and best-selling author. Raised in the impoverished South side of Chicago, Gray defied the odds and became a self-made millionaire by the age of 14. At the age of 21, he received an Honorary Doctorate degree of Humane Letters from Allen University. This was in recognition of his ingenious economic mind and distinguished commitment to the development of values such as leadership, integrity and scholarship. In his rise from poverty to national and international prominence as an entrepreneurial icon and pre-eminent power speaker, Farrah Gray has inspired millions around the world.

Since his first interview at 11 years old on KVBC Channel 3, Gray has become a celebrity, featured in thousands of print, magazine, radio and television media including The NBC reality show Starting Over, 20/20,Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight, The Montel Williams Show, Oprah & Friends, The Tavis Smiley Show, CNBC, BET, NBC, FOX, CBS, BRAVO, PBS, NPR, Bloomberg, Ebony, Jet, Essence, Upscale, Black Enterprise, Black MBA, “O” The Oprah Magazine, Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post.

Les Brown

Chief Motivational Consultant

As one of the world’s most renowned motivational speakers, Les Brown is a dynamic personality and highly-sought-after resource in business and professional circles for Fortune 500 CEOs, small business owners, non-profit and community leaders from all sectors of society looking to expand opportunity. For three decades he has not only studied the science of achievement, he’s mastered it by interviewing hundreds of successful business leaders and collaborating with them in the boardroom translating theory into bottom-line results for his clients.

As a premier Keynote Speaker and leading authority on achievement for audiences as large as 80,000—Les Brown energizes people to meet the challenges of the world around them. He skillfully weaves his compelling life story into the fabric of our daily lives. The thread is forever strengthened, touting why you can’t afford to be complacent and to aim high, achieve and actively make an impact on the world.

Addressing audiences from Denmark to Dubai, Canada to the Caribbean, Les Brown is invited back again and again for his powerful message and the ability to connect deeply with people from all walks of life. It isn’t just his great smile and his way with words that motivates people to take action like never before; when people face roadblocks or adversity it is the depth of his knowledge on achievement that creates lasting results.