Core Team

A business consulting background paired with a deep knowledge of leadership has proven to be the winning combination of skills that sets the Bridge team apart.

Jenny Whitener serves as the Chief Executive of Bridge Consulting International in the U.S. With more than 25 years of experience working with top business leaders around the world in the executive leadership and learning space, Jenny thrives on turning the greatest challenges into successful ventures. An expert in her field, she is known for accelerating business transformation by maximizing the power of leadership, creativity and collaboration. She is an seasoned facilitator and architect of large scale collaborative design sessions for organizations such as Albany Medical Center, Allen & Overy, Ardent Health Services, Cap Gemini, Ernst & Young, GE Energy, Kaiser Permanente, Premier Inc., Prudential, Shell Exploration, and Royal Mail. As a result of her collaborative sessions, clients have designed new revenue streams, merger/integration strategies, bold visions, strategic plans, culture transformations, sustainable change plans, responses to disruptive shifts, and talent strategies in a matter of days versus months.

In addition to her client work with Bridge, Jenny is actively involved in serving her community. Her commitment to social responsibility is demonstrated by her board and leadership development work with numerous regional non-profit organizations and public schools. Jenny also teams with leading academics to create best in class executive leadership programs as a strategic partner for executive education for the University of Tennessee Chattanooga College of Business, Georgia Tech University, the University of Georgia Terry College of Business, and the Judge Business School of Cambridge University.

Prior to her time at Bridge, Jenny served as National Director of the Prudential Healthcare Leadership Institute, Chief Learning Officer for Ernst & Young, and Global Director of Learning for Cap Gemini. She is experienced in Ernst & Young’s Accelerated Solution Environment (ASE) Methodology and is the developer of the Accelerated Learning Environment. A graduate of the University of Georgia with advanced studies in leadership development under the direction Harvard University's John P. Kotter, and design thinking and strategic facilitation under DesignShop founder Matt Taylor, Jenny consults, lectures, and coaches with senior leaders across the globe. After years of living and working in Europe and all over the U.S., Jenny and her family call Lookout Mountain, GA home.

Max Mosenthal is one of the founders of Bridge Consulting International and currently leads the U.K. practice as Senior Partner. Max is a Chartered Accountant and has over 25 years of consulting experience in assisting clients with effective strategic change. Prior to his time at Bridge, Max served in various executive roles, including Vice President at CapGemini, Partner at Ernst & Young, and Associate Partner at Andersen Consulting. His experience includes the development of information strategies, the definition of IT projects, the selection of software packages, the design of new business processes, and the design, development and implementation of custom and package based systems. For eleven years Max specialized in the delivery of business solutions to the energy sector supported by SAP. He also helped create an innovative joint venture organization to provide Siebel skills to the consumer products sector.

At Bridge, Max has designed leadership development programs for senior and middle managers of major law firms, and has lead projects that helped define partner career paths and programs to improve partner/client relations. He has lectured for the Law Society on law firm management and had articles published by the Law Society. He has also assisted clients in other sectors including the Post Office, engineering, and high technology. These projects have included strategy definition workshops, accelerated design sessions for leadership development programs, the design and development of business simulation models, as well as delivery of content areas on programs. In addition, Max has provided program direction for the leadership development programs for Bridge's most significant clients including Allen & Overy, Shell Exploration, Royal Mail and Serco. Beyond his outstanding management consulting services, Max has been responsible for the creation and on-going management of Bridge's financial and administrative infrastructure.

Adam Billing leads Bridge Collaboration, LTD based in the U.K. and brings deep experience as an event designer and facilitator. He has a strong background in the design and delivery of executive learning programs and collaborative design workshops. Since 2004, Adam has worked with a wide range of public and private sector clients in the U.S., U.K. and Asia designing and leading learning programs for clients across industries. Before joining Bridge, Adam was a Senior Consultant at Ernst & Young LLP and later Cap Gemini where he provided management consulting services to Fortune 500 companies in the U.S. and abroad. Adam has designed and facilitated professional development programs for some of the world's leading organizations in industries including energy, healthcare, and professional/financial services. In addition, he has worked extensively in the legal services sector designing and delivering partner and associate development programs for one of the U.K.'s largest global firms as well as working closely with the Law Society of England & Wales. Since 2008 he has co-authored two whitepapers on leading practices in law firm management published by the International Bar Association and has facilitated virtual workshops for members of the American Bar Association. Adam has lived and worked in the United States, Europe, India and the Far East.

Dr. Mary Kay Chess leads our west coast presence in the U.S. and provides thought leadership for many of our service offers. She focuses on enabling people to participate fully in change and to continue to learn and communicate widely and wisely. Implicit in this focus is the belief that we all make choices in creating and transforming the systems we live and thrive within, and humor and adaptability cannot be underrated. Dr. Chess serves as core faculty in Bainbridge Graduate Institute's MBA program in the Seattle area where she teaches Leadership and Personal Development throughout the student's tenure at BGI. Mary Kay brings more than 25 years of leadership experience in the public and private sector in shared services and in healthcare delivery and administration through her experiences at Kaiser Permanente and Gundersen Lutheran Health System.

Dr. Chess serves as a speaker and educator for Rural Health, Health Resources and Services Administration and for member executives of the National Cooperative of Health Networks (NCHN). In addition to her executive coaching and facilitation of strategic thinking and planning sessions, she serves on two boards creating sustainable and enjoyable living options for Whidbey Island, WA.

Kristin Leydig Bryant leads our transformational change services and is CEO of Seren, LLC. She has worked with people issues in organizations for more than 13 years. As a consultant with Ernst & Young, she specialized in leadership development, organization design / development, change management, communications, and learning. Since 2002, Kristin has been consulting and coaching independently in these same arenas. She has worked primarily in the pharmaceutical, financial services, consumer products, and telecommunications industries, as well as with governmental agencies. Kristin holds an MBA in Strategic Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and makes her home in Atlanta, GA. In addition, she is completing the requirements for the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) designation from the ICF.

Glenda Hicks co-leads our non-profit board and leadership development service offers and is CEO of Glenda Y. Hicks, CPA. She exclusively serves the nonprofit community with consulting services in the area of financial management, tax research, and board and staff training; and both the nonprofit and for-profit sector with professional development training services. Through her CPA services, Glenda operates as a change agent to assist clients with identifying, developing, training, and implementing systems that create an infrastructure for sustainability which emphasizes accountability, compliance, and transparency. In her capacity as CFO by the Hour, she works closely with management and staff to clean up, catch up, and maintain ongoing accounting records. CPA clients include Legal Services of Greater Miami, Hosea Feed the Hungry and Homeless, and Literacy Action, Inc. Professional training clients include Kennesaw State University, Southern Polytechnic State University, Habif, Arogeti, & Wynne, LLP and the South Carolina Association of CPAs.

Glenda is a Certified Public Accountant, licensed in the states of Georgia and Florida. She owns a CPA firm in Marietta, Georgia, and brings 24 years of experience to the team. Prior to establishing her firm, Glenda served a variety of clients with audit and tax services while with Coopers & Lybrand, LLP then later worked as Director of Financial Reporting for the University of Miami, and last served as controller and interim Executive Director for a community based nonprofit organization. Her civic involvement includes serving as Immediate Past Chair for the Cobb Community Collaborative, Assistant Treasurer for the National Legal Aid and Defenders Association (NLADA) and finance committee member of MUST Ministries, an organization that serves the homeless community.

Julie Stuart leads our visual mapping and graphic facilitation efforts and is CEO of Making Ideas Visible. Ennabling clients to see their ideas take shape in real-time through a visual story, graphic facilitation has proven to be an effective tool for guiding groups as they undergo organizational change processes including strategic planning, visioning and branding. The revolution will not be televised—but it could be visually mapped, laminated, overnighted, mounted on a wall, and used to ignite a movement once Julie Stuart gets involved.

Recognized in Harvard Business Review for her graphic facilitation work before anyone could agree on what to call it, Julie has facilitated high-stakes meetings for such clients as Accenture, GE Energy, the American Institute for Architects, and the Center for Disease Control. Part strategist, part business truth-teller, part idea taxonomist, part champion of insights, Julie combines the right questions with a few well-placed scribbles to envision what’s really possible for her clients—and to map out how to make what matters happen.

Years ago, when facing a choice between creativity, business, and world-changing, she chose all of the above, finding a new kind of art in bringing change agents’ ideas out of them. She’s never met a good cause she didn’t love. (Ask her about those 73 acres of trees in her hometown—free at last!). With a Masters in Fine Art, an undergrad in political science and a background in teaching, public policy, journalism, non-profit management, and environmental science, Julie’s résumé has come to resemble one of her visual maps. To complete the picture, just add her three great passions: sailboats, ice skating and photography. It really is all connected, you see.

Shannon Nix serves as a communications and community relations specialist with Bridge. She is an experienced and versatile communications professional who excels at developing compelling, relatable messaging from complex issues to proactively reach key audiences. Recognized for her ability to build strategic relationships with people from all organizational levels, including senior-level executives, government leaders and members of the media, Shannon is a dynamic, effective leader with a diverse skill-set that also includes producing podcasts, webcasts and blogging for interactive outreach and promotion of events and campaigns. Prior to her work with Bridge, she served as Public Affairs Manager for CTIA-The Wireless Association in Washington, D.C. Shannon graduated from Hastings College with degrees in Political Science and Speech Communications.

Annemarie Cardell serves as a senior consulting associate with Bridge. She is an experienced business consultant specializing in leadership development, process improvement, and business transformation. Annemarie specializes in business analytics, research, and process design. Her clients have included manufacturing, retail, talent management and business services organizations. Prior to her work with Bridge, she was a member of the global consulting team for Alvarez & Marsal Business Consulting Practice. She is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology with a degree in mechanical engineering.

A Tribute to Bridge's Legacy Leader...

John Kelly
Since its inception in 2003, John Kelly (1953-2010) led the Bridge Consulting International team as Senior Partner. A respected business leader and accomplished executive, John touched the lives of family, friends, clients and team members with his goodness, grace, sincerity and remarkable insight. Learn more about John's legacy and how you can contribute to the John Kelly Memorial Scholarship fund.