Brené Brown
American academic, speaker and author / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Casandra Brené Brown (born November 18, 1965) is an American professor, social worker, author, and podcast host. Brown is known for her work on shame, vulnerability, and leadership, and for her widely viewed 2010 TEDx talk.[2] She has written six number-one New York Times bestselling books and hosted two podcasts on Spotify.[3]
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Born | Casandra Brené Brown (1965-11-18) November 18, 1965 (age 58) San Antonio, Texas, U.S. |
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Steve Alley (m. 1994) |
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Thesis | Acompañar: A Grounded Theory of Developing, Maintaining and Assessing Relevance in Professional Helping[1] (2002) |
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Discipline | Social work |
Institutions | University of Houston |
Website | brenebrown |
She appears in the 2019 documentary Brené Brown: The Call to Courage on Netflix. In 2022, HBO Max released a documentary series based on her book Atlas of the Heart.
Brown holds the Huffington Foundation's Brené Brown Endowed Chair at the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work and is a visiting professor in management at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin.