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Institutions & Social Impact

From the research office to the executive suite, we understand the infrastructure behind institutional impact. BridgeTrust Partners helps research enterprises, health systems, higher education, and mission-driven institutions get clear on priorities, get connected across stakeholders, and get moving through disciplined program delivery.

  • Leadership development and convenings
  • Program, research, and grants management
  • Management and organizational consulting
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Capabilities

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Leadership Development, Facilitation, Training & Convenings

We help institutional leaders build aligned teams, navigate change, and bring the right people together around consequential decisions.

  • Executive and leadership development, coaching, and supervisory training
  • Retreats, strategic planning sessions, working groups, and stakeholder convenings
  • Facilitation, keynote speaking, panel moderation, and executive communications
  • Curriculum, training, and professional-development program design
  • Cross-functional alignment during organizational change and transformation

Signature Programs

Faith Over Fear™ Leadership Program · RAW™ Leadership Program

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Program, Project, Research & Grants Management

We bring deep operational expertise to externally funded programs, research enterprises, and complex institutional initiatives—from opportunity through closeout.

  • Research administration and sponsored programs: pre-award, proposal development, award setup, post-award management, reporting, and closeout
  • Research enterprise optimization: operating models, workflows, service delivery, workload analysis, and research-administration transformation
  • Grants management, restricted-fund oversight, subrecipient monitoring, compliance, and audit readiness
  • Federal award administration and 2 CFR 200 compliance
  • Program and project management, implementation oversight, deliverable tracking, and PMO support
  • Budget architecture, financial management, forecasting, and sponsor/institutional reporting
  • Research and grant technology assessment, implementation, integration, and AI-enabled workflow improvement
03

Management & Organizational Consulting

We strengthen the organizational infrastructure required to turn institutional strategy into sustained performance.

  • Operating-model, organizational-design, and service-delivery transformation
  • Organizational assessments, process mapping, benchmarking, and implementation planning
  • Workforce strategy, staffing models, team effectiveness, and change management
  • Governance structures, decision rights, policies, SOPs, and management systems
  • Financial and administrative operating infrastructure
  • Strategic planning, performance measurement, dashboards, and executive decision support
  • Funding diversification and organizational growth strategy

Differentiators

30+ years of combined leadership

Principals bring executive experience across healthcare, research institutions, professional sports, faith-based organizations, and government — including the Executive Office of the President.

Research administration depth

Managing Partner Brittany Leach brings 10+ years at NYU Langone Health, where she scaled sponsored research from $22M to $250M+ annually across 13 departments and 300+ submissions a year.

Technology-enabled funding operations

Baylani, a native agentic funding advisory and management platform led by Managing Partner Brittany Leach, uses specialized agents to support finding, winning, managing, and reporting on funded work, with outputs traced to source records.

Published voice on leadership

Founder & CEO Michael Leach is the author of Faith Over Fear (HarperOne/HarperCollins), the foundation of keynote and workshop programming for institutional and enterprise audiences.

Past performance

NYU Langone Health — Sponsored Research Operations

Principal experience · Sponsored research operations

Scaled sponsored research from $22M to $250M+ annually; 300+ submissions/yr, 13 departments.

Managing Partner Brittany Leach.

Key personnel & contact

Michael Leach

Founder & CEO

michael@bridgetrustpartners.com

Brittany Leach

Managing Partner

brittany@bridgetrustpartners.com
bridgetrustpartners.com

1011 18th Street NE #7,
Washington, DC 20002

(202) 370-7956