Dr. Debra L Brown

Dr. Debra L. Brown and Rob DeRooy together have decades of direct and practical experience working with boards. Comfortable and confident with both boards and executives, they possess a mix of well-researched, experiential, and conceptual insights that uniquely qualify them to advise organizations on governance. They have served as CEOs, been board members of varied organizations, and can see governance issues from both sides of the table. Jake Skinner combines creativity, innovation,...See more

Dr. Debra L. Brown and Rob DeRooy together have decades of direct and practical experience working with boards. Comfortable and confident with both boards and executives, they possess a mix of well-researched, experiential, and conceptual insights that uniquely qualify them to advise organizations on governance. They have served as CEOs, been board members of varied organizations, and can see governance issues from both sides of the table. Jake Skinner combines creativity, innovation, governance content, and technical skills to design and implement governance solutions for clients, including online board and CEO evaluations, boardroom and executive culture tools, board skills profiling, and peer comparator benchmarking, as well as dozens of customized applications. They know what works and even more importantly, what does not! See less