Take care of business with Rolando Brown

Rolando Brown

I’ve earned the name Grow. That was not an accident. It was a choice.

Raised at the crossroads of cultural conflict and integration, in the aftermath of significant loss, I learned a key lesson:
resourcefulness is vital.

That lesson built a career of helping hundreds of leaders and organizations be more resourceful. Today, I offer Executive Coaching for individuals and Turnaround Support for organizations.

Both are high-touch, both are built for growth.

If you’re ready to grow, let’s talk.

Root in wisdom. Grow with integrity.

This means transforming fear into focus, addiction to agency, burnout to balance, and stress to success.

Artwork: “Grow” by Alex Collins for Rolando Hernandez Rodriguez Brown

About Rolando Brown

Rolando Brown is an award-winning Community Developer, Artist, Coach, and Strategic Operator.

With more than 20 years of executive consulting experience across a range of industries and sectors, Rolando serves as an executive coach and leadership consultant. His core areas of expertise are growth strategy and marketing operations. Rolando has dedicated his career to building and serving several small and medium-sized businesses committed to using their resources as a force for good.

Rolando majored in Leadership and Management Studies at New York University, with concentrations in Behavioral Economics, Communications & Technology. Rolando is a lifelong learner who believes in humanity’s potential to hold power with deep reverence and care, and continues to study human aspiration, collaboration, conflict, and reconciliation.

Rolando has integrated various forms of leadership, character building, and embodied intelligence training into his lifestyle and holds an embodied commitment to being in ways that both reduce harm and replenish freedom. He blends systems thinking, embodied learning, and culturally rooted practices to support leaders navigating complexity with clarity and compassion.

He has facilitated leadership development, strategic visioning, and organizational change with leaders across benefit corporations, philanthropy, grassroots movements, healthcare, and education.

Rolando serves or has served on the following Boards: Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (MoCADA), iCouldBe.org, The Advocacy Institute, ParentsTogetherAction, Hip-Hop Education Center at NYU Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, Red Bay Coffee, and the Strozzi Institute Inc.

He splits his time between Philadelphia, PA, Queens, NY, and Oakland, CA.

Wisdom

"We grow. We all grow.
We're made to grow. We
either evolve or we disappear."

The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano.
I just go within.

I know I can
Be what I wanna be
If I work hard at it
I'll be where I wanna be

Your most valuable asset ―
your attention.
We believe every person, every company, and every organism is either growing or dying. Maintenance is a myth.

You can have success on your own terms.
You can live without compromise
or settling for less than you deserve.

Do your life willingly.
When you're doing it as an offering, it's a beautiful thing. When you're doing it as a chore, it's an ugly thing.
Do it all as an offering.

Today you invest in self to save your life
You are the cause of what you cause
Exercise your ability, your breathing
your creativity, your discipline
Exercise, exercise, exercise!