The discipline to design it. The experience to deliver it.
Janine Brown has spent her career on a deceptively simple discipline: Understand what works. Challenge what doesn't. Remove what stands in the way.
It is a discipline she has practiced from nearly every seat at the executive table — as a senior corporate leader, industrial engineer, attorney, business strategist, and advisor to organizations navigating complex operational and regulatory demands.
Her experience includes serving as Senior Vice President at BroadVision, leading Oracle's training organization worldwide, leading manufacturing operations in the medical device industry, and directing health and life sciences engagements at Hewlett Packard. She has also worked with organizations including General Motors, Genentech, Eli Lilly, and GE, among others.
These are environments where complexity is not theoretical. Decisions affect people, products, regulatory obligations, budgets, and business performance. A missed dependency or poorly understood contractual commitment can carry consequences well beyond the original project.
Janine understands those consequences because she has been responsible for delivering results herself.
An industrial engineer by training, with an MBA and law degree, she brings an unusually integrated perspective to organizational challenges. She understands the legal and commercial obligations, the systems that support them, the processes that operationalize them, and the people who must ultimately make everything work.
Her particular strength is translating complexity into operational clarity.
Whether helping an organization implement regulatory requirements, establish governance, improve business processes, manage enterprise transformation, or move artificial intelligence from experimentation into responsible use, Janine focuses on the essential questions: What must happen? Who is accountable? How will we know it is working? And what happens when reality refuses to follow the plan?
She is equally comfortable challenging an executive strategy and working alongside the teams responsible for implementing it. She knows that sustainable results require both perspectives.
Janine also brings mediation and arbitration experience to situations where competing interests, uncertainty, or disagreement are preventing progress. Her approach combines disciplined analysis with the ability to recognize where practical agreement may be possible.
Outside the office, Janine is a private pilot, scuba diver, and accomplished golfer. Those pursuits reflect something recognizable in her professional life: preparation matters, conditions change, and good judgment is most valuable when the original plan needs adjusting.
Janine doesn't simply identify what an organization should do. She helps build the conditions that make doing it possible.
Areas of expertise
- Enterprise strategy and operational execution. Translating business objectives into practical operating models, accountable ownership, measurable outcomes, and sustainable performance.
- Contractual and regulatory obligations. Connecting complex agreements and regulatory requirements to policies, controls, processes, reporting, and operational evidence.
- Governance, compliance, and audit readiness. Establishing frameworks that integrate accountability and compliance into daily operations rather than treating them as separate exercises.
- AI strategy and responsible adoption. Helping organizations establish governance, risk controls, training, and operational practices for responsible AI implementation.
- Enterprise transformation and program leadership. Leading initiatives across technology, operations, organizational change, and executive decision-making.
- Executive and workforce development. Drawing on global training leadership to build organizational capability and support lasting adoption.
Selected leadership experience
- Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Sullivan & Brown LLC · 2010–present
- Health & Life Sciences Engagement Leader, Hewlett Packard · 2007–2010
- Senior Vice President, BroadVision
- Led Worldwide Training, Oracle Corporation · 1994–1999
- Director of Manufacturing, medical device industry · 1988–1994