Brown Charité · Founder & Principal Speaker at Fig Tree Global Solutions

A Keynote Can Open the Recovery Conversation.

Brown Charité helps enterprise, association, conference, education, and faith-based audiences name what disruption has changed and understand what recovery requires. Speaking can stand alone—or become the doorway into deeper leadership and organizational work.

Formats: Keynote · Half & Full-Day Workshop · Leadership Intensive · Multi-Session Engagement
Session Length: 45–90 minute keynotes; 3–8 hour workshops; multi-day intensives
Room Size: Executive teams of 8 to general sessions of 1,000+
Travel: Based in Tampa Bay, Florida · Available nationally and internationally

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Every engagement begins with a short discovery conversation—no pitch, no obligation.

"A keynote is inspiration, but the work that we do together will be transformation."

Brown Charité

Signature Talks

Recovery Mode®

The flagship leadership and organizational recovery keynote: a shared language for what pressure reveals, what recovery restores, and how realignment supports sustainable performance.

561 Miles

Brown's signature story of walking 561 miles from France through Spain—human proof of the clarity, identity, endurance, and alignment behind the work.

Keynote Speaking

Creates awareness, shared language, and urgency around the recovery challenge. Brown helps audiences name what is happening beneath the surface and understand what intentional recovery requires.

Workshops & Leadership Training

Takes teams deeper into diagnosis, communication, trust, discipline, and practical application. Participants leave with tools they can use in real meetings, decisions, and relationships.

Coaching & Consulting

Helps leaders and organizations implement Recovery Mode® around specific challenges, leadership transitions, team dynamics, and measurable organizational outcomes.

Executive Camino Reset

The deepest immersive tier of Recovery Mode®. A structured leadership and recovery experience for executives and teams who need distance from noise, space for honest reflection, and a guided path back to clarity, alignment, and purposeful execution.

On Stage

Built for the Room, Not for the Slide Deck

Keynotes, general sessions, and executive workshops delivered to conferences, corporations, and organizations that need their people operating at full capacity.

Keynote Delivery

Conference audience during Brown Charité's session

The Full Room

Brown Charité connecting with leaders after a session

Executive Networking

The Sequence Behind Every Message

Recovery Mode®

Pressure
What Is Revealed
Recovery
Realignment
Sustainable Performance

One sequence, applied to a person, a leadership team, or an entire organization. It is what makes the message a methodology rather than a speech.

One System. Adapted to the Room.

Choose Your Room

Start with the audience you are booking for. Recovery Mode® is the system; STL: Slay the Leviathan™ and 561 Miles are the signature frameworks inside it. Recovery Mode® is a leadership and organizational recovery methodology—not clinical recovery or therapy.

For corporations, associations, nonprofits, public-sector organizations, and leadership teams navigating pressure, change, conflict, or leadership drift. Brown helps people name what is affecting performance beneath the surface and move toward clearer decisions, stronger trust, healthier capacity, and aligned execution.

The Problem: Pressure, change, conflict, or leadership drift is quietly costing clarity, trust, and execution.
The Outcome: Clearer decisions, stronger trust, healthier capacity, and aligned execution.
Formats: Keynote · Half & Full-Day Workshop · Leadership Intensive · Multi-Session Engagement

Framework 01

Recovery Mode®

Pressure, leadership capacity, team alignment, trust, and sustainable performance.

Recovery Mode® helps teams identify what is running beneath the surface, confront what is draining capacity, and rebuild clarity, trust, discipline, and performance. Brown combines lived leadership experience with a practical sequence a team can carry into the next quarter.

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The Condition: The organization absorbed a disruption—restructure, loss, leadership change, sustained overload—and never actually recovered from it.
Designed For: Corporations, associations, credit unions, healthcare systems, government, and nonprofits after a period of pressure or change.
What Shifts in the Room: A room that has been performing normalcy admits what it is still carrying—and gets a sequence for moving through it.
What the Audience Leaves With: The full Recovery Mode® sequence: pressure, what is revealed, recovery, realignment, sustainable performance
How to identify the pressure running in the background of your team
The difference between resilience theater and actual recovery
A shared vocabulary leaders can carry into Monday's meetings
A defined first recovery action per team
Best For: CORPORATE TEAMS · ASSOCIATIONS · HEALTHCARE · PUBLIC SECTOR · EXECUTIVE OFFSITES

Framework 02

STL: Slay the Leviathan™

Confronting avoidance, unresolved conflict, drift, and the oversized issue everyone sees but no one names.

Every organization has an issue everyone can see and no one will name. This framework gives leaders language and a method for confronting avoidance, unresolved conflict, and misalignment while they are still solvable—and for measuring what it costs to keep working around them.

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The principles in this session originated in Brown's broader published body of work and have been intentionally adapted for this audience.

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The Condition: Avoidance has become a management strategy.
Designed For: Leadership teams and executive audiences carrying a known issue they keep working around.
What Shifts in the Room: The room stops negotiating with the thing it has been avoiding and starts addressing it directly.
What the Audience Leaves With: Language for naming the avoided issue without assigning blame
A way to distinguish a discipline problem from a clarity problem
The cost of leaving an issue unaddressed another quarter
One conversation each leader commits to having within the week
Best For: LEADERSHIP CONFERENCES · EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT · OPERATIONS TEAMS · MISSION-DRIVEN ORGANIZATIONS

Framework 03

561 Miles: Return to Alignment

Leadership, resilience, identity, endurance, and purposeful movement through uncertainty.

Drawn from Brown's 561-mile walk from France across Spain to Finisterre, this framework helps leaders recognize what pressure has silenced or disconnected, recover clarity, and keep moving through uncertainty one intentional step at a time.

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The Condition: Leaders are moving fast with no clarity about direction—momentum without alignment.
Designed For: Executive retreats, leadership conferences, and organizations navigating prolonged uncertainty.
What Shifts in the Room: The room slows down enough to ask what it is actually walking toward.
What the Audience Leaves With: A practice for recovering clarity when the path is unclear
How endurance is built in daily increments, not breakthroughs
What to set down before the next stretch
The single next intentional step each person will take
Best For: EXECUTIVE RETREATS · LEADERSHIP CONFERENCES · RESILIENCE EVENTS · PURPOSE-DRIVEN ORGANIZATIONS

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W.O.O. Season™ — Windows of Opportunity

Change, innovation, human readiness, and AI adoption.

Opportunity rarely arrives under ideal conditions. This session helps teams treat AI and emerging technology as a strategic window rather than a threat—separating urgency from panic, preparing people and systems, and moving before the window closes. Brown works the human, cultural, and readiness side of adoption, not the engineering.

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The Condition: Opportunity keeps arriving before the organization is ready to move on it.
Designed For: Executive teams, sales organizations, and high-growth teams facing rapid change and AI adoption.
What Shifts in the Room: Readiness stops being treated as overhead and starts being treated as positioning.
What the Audience Leaves With: How to recognize the moment before the moment
A readiness check for people, systems, and culture
How to separate genuine urgency from panic during technology change
A concrete execution commitment while the window is open
Best For: EXECUTIVE TEAMS · SALES ORGANIZATIONS · LEADERSHIP CONFERENCES · HIGH-PERFORMANCE TEAMS

The Man in the Middle

Identity, wellbeing, responsibility, and sustainable leadership capacity.

High performance becomes unsustainable when the leader is fragmented. This session gives audiences a framework for examining the identity, emotional, mental, and physical dimensions shaping how they lead, decide, relate, and sustain output over time.

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The principles in this session originated in Brown's broader published body of work and have been intentionally adapted for this audience.

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The Condition: Results are holding, but the people producing them are not.
Designed For: Senior leaders, high-performing teams, and wellbeing or culture initiatives.
What Shifts in the Room: Wellbeing stops being framed as a perk and starts being treated as leadership infrastructure.
What the Audience Leaves With: A four-dimension self-assessment leaders can run in ten minutes
How to spot depletion in a high performer before it becomes attrition
Boundaries that hold under real organizational pressure
A sustainable operating rhythm rather than a recovery sprint
Best For: EXECUTIVE TEAMS · LEADERSHIP RETREATS · WELLBEING INITIATIVES · HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS

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Everything Your Committee Needs

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Why Organizations Book Brown Charité

Real Leadership Experience. Practical Application.

Two-time national collegiate entrepreneurship champion at USF. Seventeen years as a CEO who grew an operation from a 100-square-foot sunroom into a 6,500-square-foot waterfront estate with a 47-person team. Founding President of NAWP Gulf Coast and founder of WEPA. Recovery Mode® was built while leading through real pressure—and 561 miles walked from France through Spain is the lived proof behind it.

Two-Time National Collegiate Champion17 Years as CEO47-Person TeamFounding President · NAWP Gulf CoastFounder · WEPA561 Miles Walked

What Your People Leave With

Shared Language

A room that can name what pressure is doing to them—out loud, without euphemism.

Recognition of Misalignment

Leaders see where direction, behavior, and capacity have quietly drifted apart.

Stronger Leadership Capacity

Framing for carrying responsibility while recovering, rather than performing through it.

Better Conversations

Permission and structure for what teams have been avoiding since the disruption.

Practices They Can Use

Specific habits that apply to real meetings, decisions, and relationships.

A Defined Next Step

Every engagement closes with a clear recommendation for what happens next.

Bring Recovery Mode® to Your Organization

Start with a conversation about your people, your pressure, and the outcome your organization needs.

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Moments

A look at the stages, organizations, and communities where Brown has delivered messages on recovery, resilience, leadership, purpose, and performance.

Brown speaking at EdgeCon Small Business Conference

Brown with a Signature Country partner backstage

Brown with City Treasurer Kennedy after the talk

Brown with a community elder after speaking