About Bridgett
Strategic Advisor • Leadership Partner • Founder of Hart Connections LLC
My Story
I’ve spent my career at the intersection of people and organizations — figuring out what it actually takes for both to thrive at the same time.
That work has looked different across the years. I ran out-of-school-time programs at progressively larger organizations — Youth for Christ, Boys & Girls Club, Spokane Public Schools, Chandler Unified School District — building community partnerships that outlasted the grant funding that created them. I learned early that sustainability isn’t built on money. It’s built on relationships and systems that hold.
The work that shaped me most was leading Alpha Group Administrators as Executive Director. We had 24 group homes and 2 day programs serving adults with developmental disabilities and serious mental illness. 250 employees. When I stepped in, the company was in failing compliance and at risk of losing sites. When I stepped away, annual revenue had grown from $3 million to $8 million and the business was healthy enough to sell. What I’m most proud of isn’t the number — it’s that the people we served were safer, the team was stronger, and the organization had learned how to function without depending on any one person to hold it together.
That experience lives in everything I do now.
The Work
Since founding Hart Connections LLC, I’ve worked with founders, executives, and owner-operators across industries — group home companies, preschools, charter schools, law offices, yoga studios, financial services firms, HVAC companies, and more. The industries are different. The underlying challenges rarely are.
Most of the leaders I work with are good at what they do. They built something real. But somewhere along the way, the business stopped serving them the way they imagined it would — and they need a partner who can see both the strategic picture and the human one at the same time.
That’s the work I do.
How I Work
I don’t believe in hustle culture. I believe humans work at their best when they are rested, grounded, and operating from a place of creative capacity — not survival mode. The most important work — the thinking, the deciding, the leading — can’t be forced. It has to be cultivated.
I also believe that business works better when it’s built like an ecosystem rather than an empire. Not endlessly scaling for its own sake, but growing in ways that strengthen the people, relationships, and community around it.
This philosophy doesn’t make me soft on results. It makes me honest about what actually produces them.