Brittany Galisdorfer

Brittany joined Bridgeport in 2016 with over a decade of experience as a program manager and business analyst in nonprofit and academic settings. Complemented by an insatiable appetite for learning, Brittany’s engaging and empathetic style enables her to establish rapport quickly and well with stakeholders across diverse sectors.

At Bridgeport, we consider Brittany our “Swiss army knife” of talent; her sharp quantitative skills are matched by her personal warmth, emotional intelligence, and positivity. Bringing all these skills to bear in service of her clients’ success, Brittany finds particular joy in projects where trust and group cohesion need to be deepened – especially when divergent opinions might otherwise cause friction.

Prior to joining Bridgeport, Brittany worked as a finance team lead and business analyst at the University of Michigan (U-M). She helped facilitate the creation of a new Shared Services Center that now provides finance and human resource services university-wide. This multi-million-dollar, three-year project required considerable stakeholder engagement, process design, technology development, and change leadership.

From 2004-2010, Brittany worked as a program manager at an organization dedicated to smart research, strategic advocacy, and creative storytelling to advance solutions to shared metropolitan challenges. She cultivated grassroots coalitions to amplify local government capacity for energy efficiency, eliminate barriers to intergovernmental cooperation, and foster an environment of economic development and innovation.

Education

Brittany has an M.P.P. from the University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy and a B.A. in Mathematics from the U-M School of Literature, Science, and Arts.

Experience

Brittany has led strategic planning and organizational change projects with nonprofit, philanthropic, academic, governmental, and select for-profit organizations. Recent clients have included the Packard Health, U-M School of Information, Chelsea District Library, Michigan League of Conservation Voters, and Detroit Food Academy. Since 2018, Brittany and her colleagues have served as the third-party facilitation team supporting a healthy, productive relationship between the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA), one of the largest utilities in the nation, and 130 member communities in southeast Michigan.

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“Brittany facilitated our faculty retreat, guiding us through our hard questions to find resolutions, compromises and paths forward that were beyond what we had hoped. Her pre-program preparation was exceptional and her post-event follow up summary was so thoughtfully prepared that it formed the basis for our departmental review documents. We will definitely ask for her again!”

Mary Oriordan & Denise Kirschner

Professors, U-M Microbiology & Immunology

“Whenever we have a project that requires meaningful and inspired community engagement, my first thought is – call Bridgeport. We’ve worked with Kerry and Brittany on multiple community and construction oriented projects. In local government, making progress toward a community vision means an inclusive public process and their community-led engagement gives me confidence in our process and direction.”