Jim Brown
Jim Brown is a master at guiding leaders forward—together! Combining his deep understanding of organizational health with his unmatched ability to engage everyone in problem solving, he calmly helps us determine our plan for a better future. And then he walks with us as we make it happen.
We saw ourselves as a policy driven board, but after meeting with Jim we soon realized we were spending far too much time in the weeds on management related issues. After our daylong session with Jim, we are now fully committed to our responsibility to ‘direct and protect’ and have made great strides towards ensuring our organization continues to thrive while staying true to its mission for future generations.
Jim Brown is the author of bestsellers The Imperfect CEO and The Imperfect Board Member and the founder of OrgHealth, a firm dedicated to helping leaders build healthy, life-giving organizational cultures. For more than 30 years, Jim has worked alongside CEOs, executive teams, boards, and faith-based leaders who carry both significant responsibility and deep concern for the people they lead.
The Imperfect CEO is not a book about flawless leadership, just honest leadership. In it, Jim explores why so many capable leaders feel pressure to be the hero, hide uncertainty, or carry the weight alone, and how those patterns quietly damage culture. This USA Today Bestseller has sparked what is being called the Imperfect Leadership Movement, inviting leaders to replace performance-driven posturing with clarity, courage, and shared ownership.
Jim’s first bestseller, The Imperfect Board Member, has become a trusted governance resource since its original release in 2006, with a 20th anniversary updated and expanded edition coming out in September of 2026.
Jim is widely known for his ability to cut through complexity and name what’s really happening in a room. Clients often describe him as calm, perceptive, and disarmingly direct—someone who helps leaders move from insight to responsibility. His faith quietly informs the conviction that organizations can be places of dignity, truth, and renewal rather than exhaustion or fear. His work focuses on organizational health as a moral and strategic issue: when culture is healthy, people flourish, trust grows, and mission advances.
Through his writing, speaking, and podcast conversations, Jim encourages leaders to let go of the myth of perfection and step into a more grounded, human, and hopeful way of leading.
There are some topics that leadership teams shy away from. Especially when it comes to their own shortcomings. OrgHealth took us there in our discussion and artfully let points hang for us to struggle with, then occasionally stepped in to guide us through them. We couldn’t have done it without them.
Jim Brown did a masterful job of leading our large group through a process that drew out people’s thinking and questions to build broad ownership in a plan for our future. He kept our discussion at a high level, helpfully pulling us out of details many times. Not only did Jim help us create a plan, he orchestrated a powerful bonding experience for our organization’s leaders.
Jim Brown is a master at guiding leaders forward – together! Combining his deep understanding of organizational health with his unmatched ability to engage everyone in problem solving, he calmly helps us determine our plan for a better future. And then he walks with us as we make it happen.
Jim was able to miraculously get everyone on the same page. He didn’t steer the direction, he opened the doors to new ideas and we walked through to a better place than we would have ever reached without him.
OrgHealth’s strength is in breaking down the silos that often exist unintentionally. This has made a tremendous difference in our team’s cohesion, effectiveness and simply in time saved in the decision-making process at both strategic and tactical levels.
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