Ann J. Brown MD PCC (she/her/hers) is a professional coach who partners with clients to engage their strengths and expand their leadership impact through reflection, insight, and exploration of new skills while staying connected to their core values.
With over two decades of leadership at the Duke School of Medicine, she brings a rare depth of experience to her coaching practice—rooted in a career dedicated to faculty thriving. Her tenure included multiple institutional leadership roles, culminating in a decade as Vice Dean for Faculty. In that role, she oversaw faculty leadership development, research mentoring initiatives, an internal coaching program and the Office of Faculty Appointments, Promotions, and Tenure. She also led efforts to resolve complex faculty conflicts, navigating high-stakes interpersonal and organizational dynamics with discretion and clarity. Her coaching is informed by this lived expertise—strategic, empathetic, and grounded in the realities of academic medicine.
She speaks nationally on the topic of managing difficult conversations. She is on the faculty of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) fellowship, a celebrated program designed to hone leadership skills for senior faculty in academic health care. In 2019, she was awarded the prestigious Carole J Bland Phronesis Award by her colleagues in the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Faculty Affairs. This honor recognized her long contributions to faculty development “through dedicated and selfless promotion of faculty vitality”.
