Elizabeth Scott

Elizabeth Scott, PhD, founder of Brighter Strategies, provides thought leadership and high value organizational development consulting to help clients build internal capacity so they can thrive.

Liz has provided training and consulting services in strategic planning, process-improvement, and human capital development for over 200 nonprofits, associations, and socially minded organizations. She has also facilitated over 40 Board of Director retreats and is a sought-after speaker on the topic of governance. She has served on executive leadership teams in the non-profit industry and has overseen the areas of strategy, organizational development and performance. Prior to her non-profit career, Liz worked for Maximus, a large consulting firm, where she provided business process services to government health and human services agencies across the United States. She has extensive experience in developing and managing all aspects of an organization’s quality and business improvement efforts; such as developing and administering programs, training and coaching employees, and facilitating organization-wide change. She has been a Baldrige examiner for the Commonwealth of Virginia and is a certified Standard of Excellence consultant.

She is trained and experienced in delivering the Grove Consultants’ Strategic Visioning, the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, the Organizational Culture Inventory, the Leadership Impact, the Drexler-Sibbet Team Performance Model, the Strength Deployment Inventory, DiSC, the ASSESS 360 system, and Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team.

In addition to managing the practice, Liz holds a faculty position at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and George Mason University.

Liz holds an undergraduate degree in Sociology and a master’s degree in Organizational Sciences from The George Washington University, as well as a second master’s and Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Systems from Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara, California.