Van Brown Email & Phone Number

Mr. Brown is available as an entertaining speaker on the subjects of equitable leadership and performance management. Theater and business both have a critical interest in understanding motivation if the expectation is to improve the quality of performance. The process is character analysis. In workshops, a number of valid feedback instruments are used.Additionally, the company is also the personal manager instrument for "Mark Twain Returns". It is a flexible and witty entertainment package for meetings, conventions, and fundraisers.For individuals, the company focus is to assist the client in the process of moving towards self management of their own talent, and the realignment of their professional network.

Atlanta, Georgia

Special Event Entertainment, corporate employee relations & celebrations; theme Party specialist for convention & trade shows in major cities nationwide. Coordinated with hotel and Convention center managers and staff members for indoor functions; often working with other destination management and production teams. At corporate sites and parks, we handled grounds operations, on site catering, staffing, and logistics for functions with single event attendees from several hundred into the thousands. Coordinated all vendors, rides, midway game activities, decorators, musicians, specialty entertainers, and more. Additionally, I personally ran an original guest oriented TV styled game show at many of these events, supervising tents, staging, lighting, sound systems, and all talent including usually emceeing the show myself. Additionally, I trained many event managers during the years while I was there, and was in charge of the creative end of promotional material development, advertising and promotions.

Georgia; South Carolina

Began performing as Mark Twain after graduate school as well as other acting & modeling assignments, radio voiceovers, various television pilots for comedy & variety shows, commercials, and corporate training films; directed plays for small community groups. I began comic & humorous speaking for clubs & business groups, as well as facilitating more serious materials for seminars & workshops focused on behavior styles. Over the years I also worked in special event set construction & installation, as well as pipe & drape, lighting & staging for the convention services industry. Other work included catering, and logistics.

Certified Facilitator, Behavior; Management Styles

Education record

Activities and Societies: Graduate School; Theater

Bfa, Theater

Activities and Societies: Debate team, Alpha Psi Omega