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Graham Brown has spent 15 years putting corporate leaders in front of other people's audiences, and he studied Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Psychology at Sussex before any of it was fashionable. Most executives respond to AI by getting more efficient, when the work that survives is the work a machine cannot fake: judgement, doubt, a story told badly but honestly. He runs enterprise podcast programmes for consultancies, banks and government bodies, and the episodes that land are the ones where the leader stops sounding like the press release. Listeners leave able to name which parts of their own communication a model could already write, and which parts are worth doubling down on.

About Graham Brown

Graham Brown, podcast guest

Author and Podcast Guesting Specialist for Corporate Leaders

2001 Founded mobileYouth16 books Published author250+ clients Served across 60 countriesUniversity of Sussex AI & Cognitive Psychology graduate

Graham Brown is an author and founder of Podcast Guesting Pro who helps corporate leaders, founders, and storytellers get booked on aligned podcasts and build thought leadership.

He began his career studying youth mobile behaviour and founded mobileYouth in 2001 to understand youth marketing and mobile culture; that early work serving clients such as Nokia, Vodafone, MTV, and Disney shaped his focus on audience insight.

Over time he moved from youth research into audio after seeing business leaders struggle to communicate authentically at scale, which led him to found a full-service corporate podcast agency and develop programs to train hosts and producers.

His route into podcasting combines formal study in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Psychology at the University of Sussex and Entrepreneurship training at Harvard Business School Online with decades of client-facing agency work.

He helps corporate leaders, startup founders, and storytellers find their voice. He leads Pikkal & Co, an award-winning corporate podcast agency, and runs Podcast Guesting Pro.

He previously hosted Asia Tech Podcast and previously grew mobileYouth to over 250 clients in 60 countries; his agencies operate from Singapore with partner studios across Australia, Austria, Canada, Croatia, Ireland, Sweden, the UAE, the UK, and the USA.

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