Mona Golden-Brown is the founder of the Advanced Change Leadership Institute and the creator of the Change Velocity Diagnostic™ (CVD) — a proprietary diagnostic system for identifying the specific organizational forces driving change resistance and prescribing the precise intervention to apply first.

She has 20+ years of experience leading organizational change through work at institutions including Disney, Stanford University, Accenture, and Autodesk. She holds an MBA in Enterprise Technology Management, a BS in Computer Science, Harvard certifications in Leading Organizational Change and Power & Influence for Positive Impact, and iPEC executive coaching certification.

The CVD was built from the field — from the specific moment practitioners experience when an initiative stalls and they need a diagnostic answer, not a framework description. The Translation Matrix at the core of this system covers resistance signals and accompanying diagnostic branches, each with specific practitioner moves drawn from real engagement patterns.

The Advanced Change Leadership Institute™ trains practitioners to lead change at the diagnostic level — equipped to read what's operating underneath organizational behavior, not just describe it.