Distinguished Speaker Series Dinner with Gen. (Ret.) Robert B. Brown

The CGSC Foundation invites you to a Distinguished Speaker Series dinner event on Wednesday, September 10, 6 p.m., at the Carriage Club in Kansas City (5301 State Line Road, KCMO 64112).

The evening’s keynote speaker is retired General Robert Brooks Brown, the president and CEO of the Association of the United States Army, headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.

Brown retired from the Army in 2019 with more than 38 years service having led troops at every level. His last command assignment before retirement was as commanding general, U.S. Army Pacific in Hawaii. Prior to that assignment he served as commander of the Combined Arms Center and Fort Leavenworth and commandant of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College from February 2014 to April 2016. His other significant commands include command of I Corps and Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington; the U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence and Fort Benning, Georgia; deputy commanding general for the 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii; commander, 1st Brigade (Stryker) 25th Infantry Division, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington; and as commander, 2nd Battalion 5th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.

Brown’s assignments took him across the globe including deployments in support of Operation Uphold Democracy in Haiti, Operation Joint Forge in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and two combat deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Brown graduated in 1981 with a bachelor of science from the United States Military Academy earning a commission as an infantry lieutenant. He also holds a Master of Education from the University of Virginia, and a Master of Science in National Security and Strategic Studies (Distinguished Graduate) from National Defense University. He is also a Class of 1992 alumnus of the Command and General Staff Officers Course. He and his wife, Dr. Patti Brown, have three daughters, and seven grandchildren.

Tickets are $150/person or $1,100.00 for a table of eight.

Registration is closed.

Sponsorships are available. – Contact the Foundation for more information.

The CGSC Foundation through its Simons Center conducts the Distinguished Speaker Series (DSS) program to offer extracurricular, educational lectures intended to help enrich the Command and General Staff School curriculum and provide opportunities for outreach to the public. Topics covered in the Distinguished Speaker Series of lectures span the gamut of leadership and ethics, organizational effectiveness, collaboration, as well as current events and issues in business, government and the military.