OUR TEAM

Leilani M. Brown is the Founder and CEO of Giant Steps, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in strategy, culture, career, and education. Giant Steps provides expert advisory services to executives, boards, and leaders across corporate businesses, non-profit organizations, arts and cultural institutions, healthcare entities, and educational organizations, including colleges, universities, and schools.

Before founding Giant Steps, Leilani spent two decades as an award-winning executive at Stride, Starr Insurance Companies, The Economist Group, MetLife, and American International Group. She brings more than 25 years of board governance experience to her work, including serving as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees at Middlebury College, Chair of the Board at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Board Secretary for the Executive Leadership Council, and Chair of the Governance Committee at Buckley Country Day School. She holds a Directorship Certification from the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).

Leilani is the author of three books: From Campus to Career: 25 Tips for Your First Professional Year, Your Next Giant Steps: 25 Practical Tips for Job Search Success, and Your Next Giant Reset: A Career Comeback Plan. She hosts Giant Steps with Leilani Brown, a podcast exploring the pivotal decisions and reinventions that shape meaningful work and lives. Her thought leadership has appeared in Newsweek, Fortune, EdTech Digest, Authority Magazine, and Scary Mommy.

She holds a B.A. from Middlebury College and an M.P.A. from New York University.