Together, they combine operational and engineering discipline, legal and regulatory insight, and a deep understanding of organizational leadership and change. Their approaches are different by design — and stronger together.
Janine D. Brown
The discipline to design it. The experience to deliver it. Senior Vice President at BroadVision, head of worldwide training at Oracle, director of manufacturing in medical devices, engagement leader at Hewlett Packard — and an industrial engineer, MBA, and attorney whose career comes down to a simple discipline: understand what works, challenge what doesn't, remove what stands in the way.
Meet Janine →
Sheila M. Sullivan
Finding clarity in complexity — and helping people act on it. Attorney, author, former litigator, and risk and transformation advisor who listens for what is being said, what is being avoided, and what everyone has quietly assumed someone else is handling.
Meet Sheila →Two strong approaches. Blended, stronger than either alone.
Janine and Sheila do not always begin with the same question.
Janine may start by examining the operating model, contractual commitments, systems, dependencies, and accountability structures.
Sheila may begin by examining the underlying assumptions, organizational dynamics, competing interests, and risks that have not yet made it into the project plan.
Neither perspective is complete without the other.
Their work together brings those questions into the same conversation, often revealing solutions that are both more practical and more durable than either perspective would produce independently.
They have worked together long enough to challenge one another's thinking, recognize when a different approach is needed, and know when the most productive thing they can do is stop talking and listen.
Clients benefit from that partnership. They gain two experienced leaders who can move between the executive suite and operational reality, who understand the relationship between commitments and capabilities, and who are willing to ask difficult questions before those questions become expensive problems.
They also bring humor, perspective, and a healthy respect for the fact that no organization is quite as orderly as its organizational chart suggests.
Some of their best conversations have happened over a conference table. Others have happened on a golf course, where a stubborn problem sometimes becomes clearer somewhere between the seventh fairway and the search for a missing ball.
Sullivan & Brown exists to help organizations make sound decisions, meet meaningful commitments, and turn good intentions into results that last.
The right expertise. The right people. The right time.
Sullivan & Brown maintains a trusted network of experienced professionals across business, technology, operations, compliance, and organizational transformation.
When an engagement calls for specialized capabilities, we bring together the right expertise to meet the challenge. Our clients benefit from the personal attention and direct accountability of a boutique firm, supported by the depth and flexibility of a broader professional network.
We build teams around the work — not work around the size of a team.