Curiosity. Awareness. Transformation. Possibility.

I believe organizations transform when leaders have the courage to ask better questions, strengthen relationships, and align people around a shared purpose.

Throughout my career, I've worked alongside nonprofits, foundations, educational institutions, and mission-driven organizations navigating growth, complexity, and change. While the settings have evolved, the work has remained remarkably consistent: helping leaders create healthier organizations where people and purpose can thrive together.

That's the work I'm honored to do every day through Transformation Strategies.

My Journey

I didn't arrive at organizational development by accident.

My work began in spaces where communication, power, and human relationships carried real consequences. From supporting survivors of domestic violence to working in higher education, nonprofit leadership, and national advocacy organizations.

Across each chapter of my career, I found myself asking the same questions:

• How do people build trust?

• What helps leaders navigate conflict well?

• How do organizations grow without losing their values?

• What allows people to do their best work together?

Those questions eventually led me to organizational development, executive coaching, strategic facilitation, and ultimately to founding Transformation Strategies.

Today, I partner with organizations navigating some of their most important moments: from strategic planning and leadership transitions to culture transformation and board development.

How I Show Up

I believe the best consulting relationships are built on curiosity, trust, and honest conversation.

Clients often tell me they appreciate my ability to ask thoughtful questions, bring clarity to complexity, and create spaces where people can have the conversations they've been avoiding, but need to have.

My role isn't to arrive with all the answers. It's to help organizations uncover the wisdom, alignment, and direction that already exists within them.

Experience & Credentials

• Certified Leadership & Performance Coach (LPCC), Brown University & ACT Leadership, Completed: Dec 2024

• Associate Certified Coach (ACC), International Coaching Federation, Completed: April 2025

• 17+ years of Academic & Nonprofit Leadership Experience

• 12+ years as a Certified Confidential Interpersonal Violence (IPV) Crisis Counselor

• 19 years supporting victims & survivors of IPV, facilitating workshops, and designing curriculum

• Held trainings and workshops for 11,000+ people over the past 10 years

• 2x Published Social Justice Author

  • dela Peña, E. A., Harris, B. L., & Patel, P. (2018). Paying Homage to College and University Women’s Centers: Gender Justice Work in the Center for Diversity and Inclusion in B. Bethman & Anitra Cottledge (Eds.) Women’s and Gender Equity Centers Book.

  • Pasque, P. A. & Harris B. L. (2014). Moving from social justice to social agency in K. Kline (Ed.) Reflection in Action: A Guidebook for Faculty and Student Affairs Professionals. Sterling, VA: Stylus

• Certified Intergroup Dialogue Facilitator: Intergroup Dialogue Institute, University of Michigan

• Master of Education: Adult Learning & Higher Education

• Bachelor of Science: Corporate Communication & Africana Studies

• Former International Delegate for the On Diversity Scholarly Research Network

Beyond the Work

When I'm not partnering with organizations, you'll likely find me traveling somewhere new, exploring local restaurants, dancing, spending time with family and friends, or listening to live music.

I care deeply about health and wellness, lifelong learning, and living a life aligned with my values. I aspire to be a good ancestor, to contribute in ways that leave people, organizations, and communities stronger than I found them.

That philosophy shapes both my life and my work.

Final Invitation

Every organization has moments that ask something new of its leaders. If your organization is navigating one of those moments, I'd be honored to explore how we might partner together.

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Brittany Lee is an organizational development consultant, executive leadership coach, strategic facilitator, and the Founder & Principal Consultant of Transformation Strategies LLC. As a strategic advisor, she supports leaders and organizations navigating complexity. With nearly two decades of experience, she partners with nonprofits, foundations, educational institutions, and mission-driven organizations to strengthen leadership, organizational culture, strategic planning, and organizational effectiveness. Her work helps leaders navigate complexity, guide change with intention, and build organizations where both people and performance can thrive.

Grounded in the belief that transformation is possible, Brittany approaches every engagement with a people-centered philosophy that integrates strategy, leadership, culture, and learning. She brings a trauma-informed, equity-centered lens to her work, helping organizations create environments where trust, belonging, accountability, and sustainable growth are not aspirational values, but everyday practices. Known for asking thoughtful questions, facilitating courageous conversations, and bringing clarity to complex challenges, Brittany is a trusted thought partner to executive leaders, boards, and teams navigating organizational change.

Through Transformation Strategies, Brittany provides strategic planning facilitation, organizational development consulting, executive and leadership coaching, learning and curriculum design, board development, and team facilitation. Her clients span the nonprofit, philanthropic, higher education, and advocacy sectors, where she partners with organizations committed to strengthening both their impact and their internal culture.

Prior to founding Transformation Strategies, Brittany spent six years leading organizational learning and development initiatives within the environmental and conservation movement, including roles with Sierra Club and Earthjustice. There, she coached senior leaders, designed enterprise-wide learning experiences, and developed strategies to strengthen leadership, employee experience, and organizational culture. Earlier in her career, she worked in higher education at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Pennsylvania, creating learning and support environments for faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students.

Brittany holds a Master of Education in Adult Learning & Higher Education from the University of Oklahoma and a Bachelor of Science in Corporate Communication and Africana Studies from the University of Central Missouri. She earned her Leadership & Performance Coaching Certification through ACT Leadership and Brown University School of Professional Studies and is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) through the International Coaching Federation. She is also a trained Intergroup Dialogue Facilitator through the University of Michigan.

Her professional interests include organizational effectiveness, leadership strategy, adult learning, organizational culture, employee experience, change management, culture and belonging, equitable organizational design, and helping leaders navigate complexity with clarity and courage.

Outside of her consulting practice, Brittany finds joy in traveling, discovering new food scenes, spending time outdoors, and making memories with her husband, Reggie, and their dog, KJ. She believes that laughter, music, meaningful relationships, and lifelong learning are essential ingredients for both personal well-being and lasting organizational transformation.