Shakira Brown is an Award-Winning Leadership Communication Strategist, National Speaker and Soft Skills Maven with a focus on effective communication, leadership, innovation, public speaking and branding addressing thousands of in-person and virtual audiences annually. She designs customized coaching and learning experiences for associations; national/international conference events; corporate workshops/retreats and custom master classes for a wide swath of industries and professional disciplines. Early in her career, Shakira leveraged her extremely influential and persuasive communication skills to break into the challenging network television news industry in New York City serving as a news producer for MSNBC and others.