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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.
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.
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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