Who We Are - Brize

Who we are

A team of dedicated, innovative, and optimistic people aiming to unleash the greatness that exists in individuals and organizations to heighten their productivity, connectivity, and satisfaction with lower work-related stress.

Leslie Ferry, Founder & CEO

Our Values

Extreme respect for diverse ideas
Constant curiosity for self-growth
Unwavering integrity – self explanatory
Community commitment

Brize Impact

We envision a world of opportunity equality.

Mission

Provide underserved communities access to new opportunities by empowering social impact organizations to realize their mission.

How

Our corporate responsibility commitment comprises two elements.

Cash donations to organizations to help them meet their commitment to underserved communities. We will donate a minimum of 5% of revenue to social impact organizations dedicated to providing healthy food and learning opportunities.
Low-cost Brize product access to empower nonprofits to scale their impact.

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.