Joann L. Brown

Joann Brown serves as an Assistant Director in the Academy for International Disaster Preparedness at FIU. In 2017 she began researching and writing the proposal for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Disaster Management that was awarded by the Florida Board of Governors in August 2019 and launched in January of 2020. Additionally, she is a teaching Professor in the department of Communication at FIU where she served as the founding department chair from 2007-2015.

Previously she partnered with FIU’s Center for Leadership to provide communication trainings as part of their well-known leadership program—HR.com and Leadership Excellence Magazine recently ranked the executive leadership program #2 globally besting programs from longstanding institutions such as Harvard, Stanford, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and Cornell.

She has authored/co-authored three textbooks which are used at various institutions of higher education across the country, and she has presented her work at numerous domestic and international conferences.

In 2015-2017 she trained City of Miami Police Department officers on Command Level Leadership and in July 2016, the City of Miami Mayor, Tomas Regalado, discussed the success of this specialized program on Hardball with Chris Matthews. This program has expanded to other police departments and fire-rescue departments in South Florida focusing on leadership development for first responders for every rank and level of the organization.

In 2023 she participated with a select group of experts on creating a GAP Analysis and a Corrective Action Plan for the Architect of the Capitol in D.C. based on the events of January 6, 2020.