Complex challenges deserve more than a familiar answer.
Sullivan & Brown helps organizations navigate risk, translate strategy into execution, and build the shared understanding that allows people, processes, and technology to work together.
Founded by Janine D. Brown and Sheila M. Sullivan, our firm brings complementary perspectives to the same table: operational discipline, legal reasoning, organizational insight, and decades of hands-on leadership.
Two perspectives. Shared listening.
Clarity Changes Everything.
Alignment Moves It Forward.
Some consulting firms are built around a methodology. Others around an industry or technology. Sullivan & Brown is built around the experience, deep listening, and complementary strengths of its founders.
Janine sees the architecture of execution: obligations, operating models, systems, processes, and accountability. Sheila sees the assumptions, hidden risks, competing interests, and human dynamics that determine whether a sound strategy succeeds.
Both understand contracts, operations, leadership, and the consequences of getting it wrong. And both know that being technically correct is not the same thing as being operationally effective.
Three ways we help.
Strategy, Governance & Risk
Understand the obligations, identify the real risks, and build governance that supports sound decisions and defensible operations — not simply another set of policies on a shelf.
Learn more →Transformation & Operational Execution
Connect ambitious strategy to the people, processes, systems, controls, and decisions required to deliver measurable progress and lasting adoption.
Learn more →Organizational Clarity & Leadership Intensives
Even the best technology cannot compensate for a lack of shared understanding. Our customized one- to four-day experiences help leaders and teams explore state of mind, communication, assumptions, and new possibilities for working together.
Explore the intensives →When the stakes are high, the details matter. So do the people.
Organizations call Sullivan & Brown when commitments are complex, initiatives are stalling, accountability is unclear, or leadership teams are working from different interpretations of the same problem.
We ask difficult questions, listen carefully, clarify the practical obligations, and work with the people responsible for delivering the outcome. We are comfortable in the executive suite and equally interested in what happens on an ordinary Tuesday after the meeting ends.
What is actually happening?
We start inside the operation, not the org chart — the contracts, the workflows, the data, and the people who know where it breaks.
What does it mean?
We separate the symptom from the cause and the obligation from the assumption, in language a board or a regulator will accept.
What will hold up?
We build the governance, owners, controls, and shared understanding that turn a decision into something the organization can actually run.
Two strong approaches. Stronger together.
Janine D. Brown
The discipline to design it. The experience to deliver it. Industrial engineer, MBA, attorney, and former Senior Vice President at BroadVision, Janine has built her career on a simple discipline: understand what works, challenge what doesn't, remove what stands in the way.
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Sheila M. Sullivan
Finding clarity in complexity — and helping people act on it. Attorney, author, former litigator, and risk and transformation advisor, Sheila is the person you want at the table when everyone is certain they know what went wrong, and they all have different answers.
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