Les Brown

Les Brown was labeled a slow learner in school and told he would never amount to much. He chose not to believe it. Today he is one of the world’s most celebrated motivational speakers, a former Ohio state legislator, and the author of Live Your Dreams — proof, four decades in the making, that the label does not define the person.

From Liberty City to the World Stage

Born a twin in low-income Liberty City in Miami, Les and his brother Wes were adopted at six weeks old by Mamie Brown, a single woman with limited financial means and a limitless heart. The self-doubt imposed by childhood misclassification became the engine of a career devoted to helping others silence the voices that tell them what they cannot do. He is CEO of Les Brown Enterprises and former host of The Les Brown Show, a nationally syndicated television talk show focused on solutions over problems.

A Message That Has Transformed Millions of Lives

Les Brown is internationally recognized as one of the nation’s leading authorities on understanding and stimulating human potential. His approach to diversity, resilience, and achievement draws on personal experience as much as research, making his message both credible and emotionally powerful.

His keynote presentations challenge audiences to reject limiting beliefs, embrace their greatness, and take the action required to turn their potential into results.

What does Les Brown speak about?

Les Brown speaks on personal development, achievement, and living up to your full potential, drawing on one of the most recognized voices in motivational speaking. His keynotes push audiences to recognize and act on the greatness within them.

What is Les Brown’s background?

Brown is a former Ohio state legislator who built a decades-long career as one of the world’s most renowned motivational speakers and authors.

Who books Les Brown to speak?

Meeting planners book Les Brown for association conferences, sales meetings, and corporate audiences seeking a high-energy case for personal achievement.

Harnessing the Power of Diversity

Les Brown’s approach to a more and more diversified American workforce is grounded in the great possibilities in such a work force. Rather than seeing diversity as an obstacle to overcome, Les challenges leaders to create an atmosphere of openness to great possibilities, and treat diversity as an opportunity.

It’s Possible or You’ve Got to be Hungry

In efforts to achieve at the highest level, Les says, It’s Possible, but you have to be untiring, relentless…huunnngry! In challenging audiences to reach, Les tells his own story of achievement over the odds, and when asked, tells his famous deejay story, recounting how he broke into broadcasting.

Coping with a Changing America

The events of September 11th and the sagging U.S. economy have combined to create an air of uncertainty in America. Les urges audiences to have the fear, acknowledge it, but don’t let the fear have you. America is changing, yet enduring, and we can all be part of an emerging new American legacy.

Achieving at the Next Level

Les outlines the all-essential mindset for high-level achievement, which begins with making the case that such achievement is possible. Once it is established that the goal, though difficult, is at least possible, Les sets the course for the frame of mind it takes to actually achieve at higher and higher levels.

Live Your Dreams Now

In the early ‘90s Les published his best-selling book, Live Your Dreams. Now, having faced health challenges in his own life and losing a best friend, Les warns against putting dreams on the back burner. Les challenges companies and individuals to get going on their goals and dreams, because they are the stuff life is made of.

Turning Up the Energy After Downsizing

The aftermath of downsizing includes traumatic impact on those who lose their jobs and those left in the wake. Les challenges audiences to step up the level of energy, be resourceful, and tap into their creative energy, in order to bounce back and break new ground.