Entrepreneur Books, the publisher behind “Revolutionary Leadership” by Dr. Kerry Mitchell Brown
Dr. Kerry Mitchell Brown, the writer of “Revolutionary Leadership: A Power Playbook for Black Women.”
Dr. Kerry Mitchell Brown’s “Revolutionary Leadership” hands Black women a research-grounded manual for gaining power and reshaping institutions.
Black women are already practicing the leadership organizations say they need most.”— Dr. Kerry Mitchell Brown, author of “Revolutionary Leadership"NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, August 7, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — Organizational strategist, CEO of kmb Consultancy and leadership authority Dr. Kerry Mitchell Brown introduces a daring new approach to leadership in her latest work, “Revolutionary Leadership: A Power Playbook for Black Women.” Released by Entrepreneur Books and distributed through Simon & Schuster, the title can be found at independent and major retailers across the country.
Just three Black women run Fortune 500 companies. Brown’s research, which comes from two longitudinal studies spaced 15 years apart involving more than 600 participants, contends that this figure reflects how organizations gauge leadership—not who is actually qualified to lead.
Within “Revolutionary Leadership,” Brown pushes back against outdated leadership paradigms and supplies Black women leaders with a practical, data-driven blueprint for accumulating power, overhauling systems, and guiding with genuineness, community, and compassion. For companies investing in instruction around a new leadership style—one that is adaptable, relationship-focused, and centered on humanity—Brown shows that these leaders are already on their payroll. Black women have been leading in this manner for generations.
“If your hiring criteria and promotion systems keep producing the same result across every sector that uses them, the problem is the criteria,” Brown says. “Companies are overlooking leaders they already employ.”
Drawing on three decades of experience spanning corporate, government, nonprofit, advisory, and academic settings, plus historical analysis and personal narrative, Brown argues that Black women are already demonstrating the kind of leadership organizations claim they need most. This book provides them with the vocabulary, the proof, and the approach to gain recognition and compensation for it.
Brown unveils the Revolutionary Pathmaker: a leader who forges paths where none exist, builds sway where formal authority is lacking, and changes exclusionary structures instead of just enduring them. Through that lens, she explores how to move beyond white male networking patterns, cultivate revolutionary visibility, gauge genuine cultural shifts, and maintain leadership without sacrificing oneself. These methods mark a transformation she calls moving from Subject to Architect—operating inside systems designed by others to redesigning those systems.
"Black women have always been revolutionary leaders, developing innovative approaches to transform power in systems not designed for them," Brown writes. "Care builds the exact competencies leadership programs teach."
Brown reframes care, community, visibility, and relationship-building as strategic assets rather than soft skills or extra work. She demonstrates how the labor Black women have long performed—caregiving, community organizing, faith networks, cultural fluency, and coalition building—can become potent sources of executive capability, organizational change, and lasting leadership. Through research findings, case examples, reflection prompts, evaluation tools, and action steps, Brown equips readers with methods to recognize their own power, translate lived experience into leadership strategy, and create enduring change.
More than just a leadership book, “Revolutionary Leadership” serves as both a roadmap and a rallying cry. Brown writes for current and emerging Black women leaders, as well as for organizations committed to fairness, belonging, and genuine transformation. The book urges readers to move beyond symbolic inclusion and toward leadership practices grounded in authenticity, collective power, and human-centered change.
Combining rigorous research, lived experience, historical context, and practical tools, “Revolutionary Leadership” argues that Black women did not merely survive the systems they were given. They reinvented them. This book provides the blueprint.
About Dr. Kerry Mitchell Brown
Dr. Kerry Mitchell Brown is an organizational strategist, CEO of kmb Consultancy, and a scholar-practitioner whose work centers on equity, leadership, and systems change. Brown has spent more than three decades leading in corporate, government, nonprofit, higher education, and consulting roles. She has partnered with more than 50 organizations, collaborated with nearly 250 leaders, and driven transformation work across complex systems. Through kmb Consultancy, she works with Fortune 100 firms, government agencies, and institutions facing structural breakdown, leadership dysfunction, and cultural shifts.
Her research and insights have appeared in Forbes, Bloomberg, Black Enterprise, and Business Insider. She holds a PhD, an MBA, and is a Gestalt OSD Certified Practitioner. To learn more, visit kerrymitchellbrown.com.
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