The Founder Behind the Recovery Work.

Brown Charité's entrepreneurial foundation began at the University of South Florida, where he and his team won two consecutive national Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization championship titles—the first coming in only the second year of USF's entrepreneurship program. That early experience confirmed something he would spend the next two decades proving: vision matters, but execution, culture, and the ability to move people matter just as much.

For 17 years, Brown led as a CEO. He grew an operation that began in a 100-square-foot sunroom inside a mobile home into a three-building, 6,500-square-foot beauty estate on waterfront property. Along the way, he built and led a 47-person team and operated an agency, salon, barbershop, and academy—carrying responsibility for people, payroll, operations, culture, growth, and client experience.

His leadership extended beyond his own companies. As Founding President of NAWP Gulf Coast and founder of WEPA, the Wedding and Event Professional Alliance, Brown learned how to create shifts, influence professional communities, mobilize people around shared standards, and build dynamic culture across organizations.

Then life tested everything he had built. Recovery Mode® was born from a season when Brown had to lead while bleeding—continuing to make decisions, serve clients, support a team, and raise a family while navigating divorce, financial pressure, grief, and personal crisis behind the scenes. He discovered that recovery is not automatic, accidental, or simply about bouncing back. Recovery requires strategy, honesty, discipline, community, and intentional action.

When the noise became too loud to hear clearly, Brown walked 561 miles from France across Spain to Finisterre on the Camino de Santiago. The journey became a place of recalibration, surrender, clarity, and recovery—and helped shape the body of work he now brings to leaders, teams, and organizations.

Today, Brown Charité is the founder and principal strategist of Fig Tree Global Solutions, where lived leadership experience has become institutional methodology. As creator of Recovery Mode®, he works with executives, leadership teams, and organizations to examine what disruption changed and restore the clarity, capacity, trust, alignment, and execution the next season requires.