by Kandiss Edwards
August 27, 2025
Brandon Body is an educator and founding father of TheBlackManCan, Inc
The 2025 BLACK ENTERPRISE XCEL Summit For Males welcomes Brandon Body, Ed.D., to the lineup.
Body is an educator and the founding father of TheBlackManCan, Inc. He’ll reasonable a power-packed session titled “Began on the Frontline to the Govt Suite.” Joined by a distinguished panel comprising Tim Cooper, Jeremy Luke, and Marc Wiliams, he’ll supply candid insights into climbing the company ladder from ground-level roles to management positions.
Greater than only a speaker, Body is bringing experience. As a graduate of Morehouse Faculty and founding father of TheBlackManCan, a nonprofit constructed to nurture and reframe narratives about Black males and boys, he guides the youth whereas concurrently constructing a enterprise. What began in 2010 as a private weblog has advanced into a world platform with over 10,000 contributors. The community encompasses greater than 500 mentors reaching over half 1,000,000 individuals. Frames’s attain is extensive as his content material generates tens of millions of weekly impressions.
His affect contains pioneering social-emotional studying initiatives and serving as deputy director of Social Emotional Studying at The City Meeting. His affect helped drop suspension charges and construct a greater college tradition for contributors underneath his management. Body believes in educating younger Black males the ability of harnessing and managing their feelings.
“Constructing an SEL Nation as a result of each baby deserves the chance to be taught Social Emotional Expertise!” he wrote on Instagram.
Body’s management isn’t solely purpose-driven but additionally private. He has overtly mentioned overcoming despair in his youth and describes that journey as foundational to his mentorship philosophy.
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He’s additionally an creator. Titles like Outline Your self, Redefine the World: A Guided Journal for Boys and Males of Coloration, and the kids’s e-book, My First Tie, function instruments for identification and empowerment.
On the Summit, Body’s look guarantees to mix authenticity with sensible technique. He fashions how humility, storytelling, and emotional resilience can gas management. Be in attendance on the XCEL Summit For Males, Oct. 15–17 on the Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in Orlando, to see Body in motion.
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