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Luxury leader & business of aesthetics pioneer

Pauline Brown

Discover how to build lasting brand value with Pauline Brown, longtime leader in the luxury industry and pioneer in the Business of Aesthetics. Combining insights from leadership roles at LVMH, The Carlyle Group, Estée Lauder, and Bain as well as faculty positions at Harvard Business School and Columbia Business School, Pauline shows leaders how to master brand differentiation, elevate customer experience, and drive sustainable growth.

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Pauline Brown, Speaker | Former LVMH Chairman
Pauline Brown

Pauline Brown

New York City, United States

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$26k–50k

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  • Former Chairman of LVMH North America, overseeing 70+ iconic brands
  • Author of Aesthetic Intelligence and pioneer of the Business of Aesthetics
  • Adjunct professor at Harvard and Columbia Business School
Pauline Brown is a business leader, investor, educator, and author who helps organizations create competitive advantage through Aesthetic Intelligence, her pioneering framework for transforming creativity, design, and consumer insight into measurable business value. Over a career spanning more than three decades, Pauline has built, led, and invested in some of the world's most powerful consumer and retail brands. As Chairman of LVMH North America, she oversaw 70+ brands across five sectors and previously held senior leadership positions at The Carlyle Group, Estée Lauder, Avon, and Bain. She is the author of the groundbreaking book _Aesthetic Intelligence_, a former adjunct professor at Harvard and Columbia Business School, and host of a weekly podcast on SiriusXM. Drawing on her experience across luxury, beauty, retail, private equity, and consumer goods, Pauline shows leaders how aesthetics influence purchasing decisions, customer loyalty, pricing power, and long-term enterprise value. Her work bridges strategy, finance, marketing, psychology, neuroscience, and design, and offers executives practical tools for building brands that stand out and businesses that last. Pauline's audiences gain a clearer understanding of how successful brands elicit desirability, how sensory and emotional connections shape consumer behavior, and how organizations can balance commercial and creative imperatives. Sharing lessons drawn from leadership roles and advisory work with companies including Samsung, BMW, and Marriott International, Pauline offers a compelling roadmap for building enduring brands in an experience-driven economy.

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Pauline has operated at the intersection of global luxury leadership, private equity investing, corporate governance, and business education, giving her a broader perspective on how brands create measurable value. That combination helps audiences connect customer experience decisions directly to commercial outcomes and long-term enterprise growth.

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Email pauline.brown@getapeptalk.com or call PepTalk on +44 20 3835 2929 (UK) or +1 737 888 5112 (US), and one of our speaker agents will contact you within hours to confirm Pauline's availability and fees. If you can, please include your budget upfront – it helps us fast-track your request. It’s also helpful to know the date, format (virtual or in-person), location, and a bit about your audience.

Pauline Brown structures her talks around the Aesthetic Intelligence framework drawn from her book of the same name, using case studies from her leadership roles at companies including LVMH, Samsung, BMW, and Marriott International to illustrate how sensory and emotional design choices translate into measurable business outcomes such as pricing power and customer loyalty.

What is Pauline Brown's speaking style like?
Pauline Brown structures her talks around the Aesthetic Intelligence framework drawn from her book of the same name, using case studies from her leadership roles at companies including LVMH, Samsung, BMW, and Marriott International to illustrate how sensory and emotional design choices translate into measurable business outcomes such as pricing power and customer loyalty.

Pauline Brown structures her talks around the Aesthetic Intelligence framework drawn from her book of the same name, using case studies from her leadership roles at companies including LVMH, Samsung, BMW, and Marriott International to illustrate how sensory and emotional design choices translate into measurable business outcomes such as pricing power and customer loyalty.

What topics does Pauline Brown specialise in?
Pauline Brown speaks on aesthetic intelligence as a business strategy, the role of sensory and emotional design in consumer behaviour, and building brand desirability and pricing power in experience-driven markets. She served as Chairman of LVMH North America, where she oversaw more than 70 brands across five sectors, and is the author of Aesthetic Intelligence.

Pauline Brown speaks on aesthetic intelligence as a business strategy, the role of sensory and emotional design in consumer behaviour, and building brand desirability and pricing power in experience-driven markets. She served as Chairman of LVMH North America, where she oversaw more than 70 brands across five sectors, and is the author of Aesthetic Intelligence.

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