Robyn Brown-Manning dedicates her practice to corporate, social services and educational institutions in the areas of personal growth, parent education, leadership development, cultural diversity, and workforce management.

A licensed social worker, Ms. Brown-Manning worked for many years with the New York Foundling Hospital. While with the Foundling, she worked for two years as a line worker in their Bronx foster care office. From there, she moved on to set up and manage the Foundling's Bronx Teen Parenting Program, which served as a model for future community based adolescent pregnancy and parenting programs. During this period, she was a co-founder of the Bronx Teen Pregnancy Network, serving as its co-chairperson for ten years. Ms. Brown-Manning also served on the New York Foundling Board of Directors for six years.

In 1986, Ms. Brown-Manning became the Foundling's Director of Parent Education. Shortly, thereafter, she became the Director of Training and Development, a position that she maintained until leaving the Foundling, in 1993. She became an external consultant on a full-time basis, as co-founder of SCG, Inc., a New York City based consulting firm.

In 1996 with her partner Lawrence Mack, Ms. Brown-Manning co-established and became president of Kriya Associates, Inc. Through this organization and human resource development firm, using an empowerment approach, she continues to conduct sessions and provide keynote addresses throughout the state and the country. Session topics include: parent education; working with African-American families and children; cross-cultural communication; leadership development; team building; stress and time management. She provides seminars, lectures and retreats on issues pertaining to African-American women; spiritual parenting; healing and centering work for women; and managing in the multicultural workplace. Ms. Brown-Manning also provides executive and transformational life coaching. As a certified Feng Shui practitioner, she also assists clients in creating healing and centering living and workspaces.

In addition to her practice, Ms. Brown-Manning teaches Social Welfare Policy and Child Welfare Policy at the Hunter College School of Social Work. She is also an adjunct at Iona College, teaching Human Diversity in Social Work. She is currently studying for her Ph.D in Social Welfare

Ms. Brown-Manning has collaborated on two publications: That's My Child: Tips for African-American Parents and 'Women of Color and Feminist Practice,' an article included in Not For Women Only: Social Work Practice for a Feminist Future by Mary Bricker-Jenkins and Nancy R. Hooyman.

Ms. Brown-Manning is the very proud mother of her son, who is a graduate of Howard University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.