Jodi Glickman Brown is an expert in training young people how to be Great on the Job.  Jodi is a consultant, coach, public speaker, author-to-be (St. Martin’s Press is publishing her book in 2011) and guest blogger for Harvard Business Review.  Her contributions to HBR’s conversation starter have landed on the “most read” list repeatedly.  She has appeared on MSNBC and her career advice has been featured in media outlets such as Business Week, CNN Money, Real Simple Magazine and Career Builder.com.

Jodi designs workshops and curriculum around the daily, one-on-one interactions in the workplace that are critical to success yet are largely overlooked by traditional corporate and business school training programs.  The power of her program is proven by her distinguished client list and her extraordinary approval ratings.  

Jodi counts BofA/Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, BlackRock, Harvard Business School, Wharton, The Stern School of Business at NYU, and the Forte Foundation, among others, as clients.  Great on the Job’s workshops are fun, engaging and highly interactive and consistently receive over 90%approval ratings from clients.

Jodi is a former Peace Corps volunteer (Southern Chile) turned investment banker (Goldman Sachs) turned communication expert.  She received her MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, where she was a Park Leadership Fellow and received a full-ride scholarship to business school.  Before turning to the world of finance, Jodi was a policy analyst at the U.S. EPA and did brief stints at the White House and Governor’s Office of Illinois. She has a B.S. in Social Policy, Magna Cum Laude, from Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy. 

Jodi lives in Chicago, Illinois with her husband and two little girls, Bella and Arden.  She is slowly adjusting to life outside of NYC and is a trustee of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum and a serves on the Board of Directors of the Urban Education Exchange, a Harlem based non-profit aimed at eliminating the achievement gap in reading.