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.
Fiona Henderson, Consulting 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.
