Helping organizations, teams and individuals achieve their goals—with integrity, purpose and spirited engagement.
Sue Brightman, Founder & Managing Director
Brightman Glover International was founded by Sue Brightman in 1998 after fifteen years of organizational change management experience with various high-profile companies: as the Employment/Employee Relations Department Manager at The Christian Science Monitor, a Pulitzer-prize winning international newspaper; as a Senior Consultant at Drake Beam Morin International, a company specializing in corporate downsizing and career transition planning; as Senior Consultant at Covey Leadership Center/Houston, an organization based around the principles of 7 Habits and Principle-Centered Leadership; and as a member of Royal Dutch Shell’s Transformation Team, providing consulting and coaching to international teams within Shell.
Following completion of a BA in Corrections from Kent State University, Sue pursued her Masters studies in Social Work/Human Resource Administration at University of Texas and University of Houston, and completed Harvard Law School's Program on Negotiation in 1989. A lifelong learner, Sue's professional work has been deeply influenced by two years' study with Fred Kofman, author of Conscious Business and winner of MIT's Teacher of the Year award before co-founding Axialent. She also completed study of Self-Organizing Systems in Sundance, Utah with Margaret Wheately, author of Leadership and the New Science; recently completed foundational studies of Spiral Dynamics with authors Chris Cowan and Natasha Todorovic; is certified to deliver Barry Oshry's highly-acclaimed experiential "Organization Workshop"; and was privileged to be trained as a trainer by Rick Ross and Associates, co-authors with Peter Senge of the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook. A guest lecturer at Texas A&M Graduate School of Business and frequent presenter at international conferences, Sue is active in three learning groups and is a proud member of SoL (Society of Organizational Learning), Integral Institute, and the Institute for Global Ethics.
In addition to conducting work through Brightman Glover International, Sue is part of the global consulting partnership New Ways Forward.
An Vandermeersch, NewWaysForward Consulting Group Colleague
Mobilizing individuals and teams to explore new opportunities and embrace transformation is what motivates An. She thrives on the challenges of helping people connect the practical demands of their day-to-day reality with the possibilities of their future ambitions, be they personal or organizational. An's passion for all things cultural and foreign feeds her enthusiasm for languages, travel and interest in things past and future.
An holds a master’s in language science – French and Spanish – and a master’s degree in economics. Through her work as an auditor she built fundamental financial management skills, complemented by 20 years as a qualified change management trainer and consultant. An has worked with global and European business leaders to implement system, organization and culture change programmes. Most recently, An was part of a global leadership team for a Shell IT department. In this role, she was responsible for organizational change and global staff engagement for a 1000+ strong IT support team, located across 40 countries, and undertaking an unprecedented transformation journey of globalization, offshoring and rationalization. An built a strongly connected leader community through a mix of high-impact face-to-face events and innovative use of virtual tools to connect communities across locations and timezones.
An’s unique mix of expertise, from finance to organizational development, from project to line and change management, leads her to build multi-faceted, practical, business-focused change plans that can easily be integrated into the daily activities of the organization. Through her deep listening skills she tunes in rapidly to how best connect the business language with what individual and teams need to commit to the change agenda. This, coupled with her ability to design and execute group events flawlessly, makes her a very effective change implementer. Her dedication to preserve what works well already enables her to creatively merge new technologies with proven engagement techniques.
Having grown up in Belgium, An moved to the UK in 1991 and lives in London, where English is arguably now her first language, backed up by her native Flemish Dutch and fluent French.
Fiona Henderson, NewWaysForward Consulting Group Colleague
"I believe that most individuals come to work with the intention of doing a good job. I also believe that most organizations and many leaders place barriers in the way of this being achieved. My passion in supporting organizations is to unlock this potential, both within leaders and their people – to enable all to succeed. Whether face-to-face or virtually, my challenge is to make this happen."
After studying clinical psychology in South Africa, Fiona began her professional career in the UK in the IT industry in 1983, rapidly adopting programme management roles with a particular focus on the ‘people aspects’ of major change. Her fascination for enabling organizations to improve performance – through structures, systems and processes as well as unleashing the nascent potential within individuals and teams – led her to pursue an occupational psychology MSc in 1990/91.
She has worked as an independent consultant providing organizational development and change leadership to a variety of private and public sector organizations, including financial services, IT infrastructure, the oil and gas sector, utilities, heavy engineering, pharmaceuticals, government departments, agencies and international organizations.
Her work with research colleagues at Human Insight led to the development of a consolidated approach to managing complex change, recognizing organizations – and the teams within them – as living systems experiencing cycles of change within a changing world. Managing these recurring change cycles requires constant effort to maintain conditions of alignment and focus, trust and consistency, and dynamic engagement at all levels – the focus of her client work.
Fiona is a highly experienced board-level coach and member of the Association of Coaching, who has successfully supported leaders in managing many organization-wide interventions.
She has worked extensively in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany and the United States.
Mary Martin, Visual & Text Design
Mary Martin provides all the visual and text design for Brightman Glover International and other companies. She has created our skill workbooks, presentations for conference keynotes, and our latest booklet on Best Practices for Conducting Virtual Learning Events. Mary specializes in deadline-driven projects requiring quick turn-around and has been known to tweak Powerpoint® presentations in the middle of her night when called from Europe or Asia with urgent changes. Mary provides a unique service by putting clients' ideas, concepts and processes into powerful, high impact documents and presentations that deliver the message. Her particular expertise is graphical conceptualization and design of themed, corporate Powerpoint® presentations, layout/design of training manuals, flyers, and other communication materials. Mary has had 11 years experience working with consultants, CEOs, presidents, vice presidents, directors and managers of various organizations on a variety of projects. Prior to consulting, Mary had 5 years project management experience with Blue Care Network, an independent licensee of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, and 13 years marketing and sales experience with companies such as Johnson and Johnson, General Electric, Pfizer, and Bristol Myers.
Mary provides her design services for other organizations as well, and may be reached through Brightman Glover International or directly via phone.
