Emmy Award
PBS program “You Deserve”
About Les Brown
A Legendary Voice for Possibility & Human Potential
Motivational speaker, author and broadcaster Les Brown joins Michael Ruge as co-author of Building Hope in Housing.
A Voice Heard Around the World
Les Brown
For more than five decades, Les Brown has built a career around one powerful idea: people are capable of more than they often believe.
As a motivational speaker, author and broadcaster, Les has inspired audiences around the world with messages about resilience, possibility and action. His career has included books, live events, radio, television and public service.
A message of possibility that has reached millions.
The Co-Author
Two Names. One Message of Possibility.
Building Hope in Housing is Michael Ruge’s housing book, built around Michael’s experience, ideas and practical perspective on development, capital and getting homes built.
Les Brown appears alongside Michael as co-author, bringing to the project a name and voice long associated with possibility, resilience and action.
Michael Ruge is the primary author of the book.
Raymond Aaron provides the foreword.
A Voice Recognized Around the World
Career Highlights
Broadcast & media presence: PBS specials, radio, television and live events worldwide.
Golden Gavel
Toastmasters International
CPAE Award
National Speakers Association
The Les Brown Show
National television and media presence
You have greatness within you.
Les Brown
That belief in human possibility sits naturally beside the bigger purpose of Building Hope in Housing: creating more opportunity by creating better places for people to live.
Building Hope in Housing
Big Problems Need People Who Believe Better Is Possible.
Housing is one of the biggest challenges facing our communities. Michael’s book focuses on the practical work of solving it — bringing together development, capital, government, communities and better ideas to help get more homes built.
Les Brown’s presence reinforces the human message behind that work: difficult problems are not a reason to stop. They are a reason to look for a better way forward.
