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I met Tim Brown in 1994 when he entered our PhD program at Ohio University. It was my privilege and honor to serve as his dissertation advisor, and he was a model advisee in every respect. Not to be stereotypical, but we literally wrote that dissertation while eating some great fried chicken weekly at Miller's in Athens, Ohio. Can you imagine two ravenous black men gorging on fried chicken and all the sides and engaged in deep conversation about rhetorical issues? I also remember struggling with a couch from Tim's house as we loaded up the moving van for his journey to Buffalo and his first academic job. I can remember as he drove off in the rain, thinking to myself, He will go far. This book, I believe, has the potential to make a great contribution in the areas of Organizational Communication, Rhetorical Studies, Business, Black Thought and Practice, and most importantly, issues of leadership. It is an authentic account and revelation of Dean Brown's personal and professional journey. His success, in my opinion, is a result of a strong family support system (mother and father), tenacious hard work, and honesty and integrity. He effectively and persuasively documents how a person can be both a team player and a leader simultaneously. There may not be an i in team, but you can't win without it. Dean Brown is a winner in every respect, but he is also always looking to make winners of others. Dr. jw Smith, School of Communication Studies, Scripps College of Communication, Ohio University

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Timothy J. Brown, Ph.D. was born in Coatesville, PA on July 12, 1969. He is the third of four children of Samuel H. Brown Jr. and Shirley M. Brown. As a youth, he enjoyed playing organized sports, neighborhood ""pick-up"" sports, board games with his siblings and the neighborhood kids, riding his bike, spending time with his immediate and extended family, and attending Coatesville Area Senior High School's Red Raider football and basketball games. As a high school student, he played football and basketball for the Red Raiders and graduated from Coatesville Area Senior High School in 1987. After high school graduation, he attended West Chester University (WCU) where he earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees in Communication Studies. In between earning his bachelor's and master's degrees he was a sports reporter for the now defunct Coatesville Record. As a graduate student at WCU, he was a graduate assistant with the Forensics (Speech and Debate) Team, the Frederick Douglass Institute, and a teaching assistant to a large-lecture, mass communication course. After graduating with his M.A., he enrolled at Ohio University as a doctoral student in the School of Interpersonal Communication's program (which is now the School of Communication Studies in the Scripps College of Communication) where he was a graduate assistant for the Forensics Team. Also, at Ohio University, he met his Laura Hamilton Brown, Ph.D. who is now his wife. Currently, Dr. Brown serves as the Dean of the Liberal Arts at Montgomery County Community College where he oversees 15 departments that span the arts & humanities and social sciences. Prior to his current position, Dr. Brown was the Dean of the James L. Knight School of Communication and Professor of Media and Communication at Queens University of Charlotte. Before Queens University, Dr. Brown was a Professor of Communication at West Chester University (2002-2018), where he chaired the Department of Communication Studies for 10 years. At WCU, he held numerous other leadership positions including Special Assistant to the Provost and Chair of the Council of Chairs. Prior to his time at WCU, he was a faculty member at Buffalo State College. Dr. Brown is a rhetorical scholar whose research, teaching and consulting focus on the intersection of culture, communication, and identity. He has made over 80 presentations, most of which took place at the annual conferences of the National Communication Association (NCA) and the Eastern Communication Association (ECA). Examples of his publications include being a co-author of the textbook Public Speaking for Success: Strategies for Diverse Audiences and Occasions (Hayden-McNeil). He was the second author of the textbook Argumentation and Debate: A Public Speaking Approach (Kendall/Hunt) and co-author of the article, ""More Than a Game: Fulfilling Expectations and Inscriptions in the Career of LeBron James,"" which is published in The Western Journal of Black Studies. On the national level, Dr. Brown has been a motivational speaker and workshop presenter on leadership skills for the Federal Government's Leadership Assessment Program. Moreover, Dr. Brown served on the National Communication Association's Learning Outcome's Project which created student learning outcomes for the discipline of Communication Studies. For the Eastern Communication Association, he has served in many capacities including being a Second Vice-President for its annual conference. In addition, he has been a workshop presenter on integrating diversity into the curriculum for the Educational Resources of New Jersey which provides professional development for public school teachers. Among his many honors includes being recognized by the Eastern Communication Association as a Distinguished Teaching Fellow and as a Distinguished Research Fellow. Furthermore, he was honored with the Drum Major for Justice Award by West Chester University's Frederick Douglass Society.

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