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Angie Brainard

EVP, Talent Management Principal

Angie is a seasoned talent strategy consultant and certified coach with extensive experience supporting regional, national, and multinational clients at Right Management. She specializes in aligning talent practices to strategic business goals, driving measurable outcomes in areas such as team effectiveness, leadership coaching, succession planning, and culture-based leadership. Angie has held leadership roles in HR and Operations, including at Walt Disney World, where she contributed to Disney University’s leadership development programs. She holds a B.A. in Communication Studies from the University of Iowa and is certified in Hogan, Birkman, Energy Leadership Index, Emergenetics, and holds CPC, SHRM–SCP, and SPHR credentials.

Angie Brainard is Executive Vice President with Right Management’s Florida/Caribbean Region and serves as the region’s Practice Lead for Talent Management.

Consulting Experience

Angie consults with leaders of all levels to develop and optimize effectiveness of the individual, team, and organization. Her engagements have focused on organization design, team structures and effectiveness, leading change and transitions, identifying and developing high potential talent and teams, talent assessment and succession management, and senior leadership team and strategy alignment. Angie has a reputation as a trusted advisor and coach, challenges thinking, and is enthusiastic about helping others discover and define the best version of themselves.

Examples of her engagements include:

  • Executive and Leader coaching assignments focused on onboarding, strengthening professional relationships, transitions, expanding leadership capability, communicating effectively, presence, and building personal/professional brand
  • Assessing team structures, talent, and organizational alignment
  • Leadership capability development for leading organizational change initiatives, hybrid and remote teams, and cultural integrations as a result of M&A activity
  • Hi-Po development training that prepared leaders to successfully navigate change associated with a new executive leadership team and strategy and work more effectively in their own transition into a leadership role within a global organization
  • Competency Model and Development and 360 Surveys producing self- awareness and focusing on those behaviors identified as critical to success
  • Executive team alignment and strategy session facilitation
  • Customer Focus cultural initiatives

Angie’s clients are in both the public and private sectors, and represent hospitality, retail, restaurant, cruise, manufacturing, construction, chemical, energy, utilities, forestry, technology, aerospace, healthcare, financial services, insurance, and non-profit.

Business/Organizational Leadership Experience

Prior to joining Right Management, Angie has held leadership positions in a variety of HR and Operations roles throughout her career in mid-sized to Fortune 500 companies; notably in the Division Parks Operations at Walt Disney World. In addition, she served as an advisor with Disney’s Organizational Development team on complex interventions. Angie led the Southeast and Mid- Atlantic Regions Training function for NationsRent, a national construction equipment rental company and was in Organization Development with AutoNation.

Education and Training

Angie holds a B.A. in communications from the University of Iowa. She currently holds designation as a Senior Professional in HR from the HR Certification Institute, the SHRM Senior Certified Professional credential, is a certified coach (CPC) with the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC), and is a member of SHRM, HRABC, and ATD. She is a podcaster, frequent featured keynote speaker and panelist for several leadership and networking organizations.

Certifications

Angie is certified in the use of several assessment and survey tools, including Hogan Assessments, Birkman Instrument, Emergenetics, Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, is an Energy Leadership Index Master Practitioner (ELI-MP), and has depth of experience with MBTI, DiSC, CPI260, and Change Style Indicator. She is also a solutions implementation expert with ThinkWise 360, and Leadership Navigator.

I believe in chasing what fuels you, challenging self-imposed limits, and leading with confident fairness and a quick wit—because trust is earned, growth isn’t always comfortable, and it’s better with someone who’s got your back.