Who We Are - Brize

Our Core Beliefs & Values

Who we are…

A group of individuals committed to driving positive change in the way work gets done. We are leveraging our experience as relentless disrupters and focusing our passion for problem-solving and creating delightful experiences to power individual self-empowerment.

What we do…

Empower individual growth through continuous learning and development.

How we do it…

With extreme respect, constant curiosity, relentless service, sincere community commitment, and unwavering integrity.

Our philosophy…

We are debunking the notion that career happiness and success are determined by our natural intelligence and technical skill expertise.

Research more than 100-years ago concluded that high-competency soft skills, or as we like to call them, career success skills, lead to greater job satisfaction, meaningful work relationships, and higher mental and emotional well-being.

We believe when individuals have strong self-awareness, an ability to identify work-styles and unique characteristics of their colleagues, this knowledge leads to career empowerment.

Our idea…

Build a highly engaging and useful app that raises an individual’s awareness of their current abilities, then offer actions to speed development, growth, and happiness.

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Leslie is the founder and chief executive officer of Brize. Throughout her more than 30-year career, Leslie has disrupted industries and propelled businesses from challenger brands to market leaders for equity-backed and publicly held companies. She was an instrumental member of the executive team for one of the most successful IPOs of 2010.

As a described analytical thinker and problem-solver, Leslie has leveraged emerging technologies to bring-to-market solutions that eliminate frustrations and influence users to take action and change behaviors. She has a unique ability to transition from visionary, strategic thinking to daily operations, which has served her well in quickly moving startups to the growth phase.

Leslie founded Brize with the mission to help individuals reach their full potential. Brize uniquely transforms its users by raising their self-awareness, which leads to stronger work performance, positive teammate interactions, and higher job satisfaction.

Before founding Brize, Leslie held senior executive Marketing, Operations, and Finance positions with leading technology brands, including BroadSoft, Inc, SnagAJob, Network Solutions, CareerBuilder, and MCI, now Verizon Business. Leslie is a co-holder of an employee match-based system patent through her human capital management work.

You are equally as likely to find Leslie happily sitting at her desk in the evening tackling a business challenge, cheering on the Washington Capitals, the Washington Nationals, both men and women professional tennis players, entertaining friends & family, traveling the world, or taking in the performing arts, as lounging on the beach listening to the waves crash to shore. Leslie lives in Northern Virginia with her husband Pete and rescue lab mix Remy.