• WORKING
  • The secret of a healthy business is to navigate to where market research, business strategies, and operational tactics converge. Bright Operations™ works with clients who are in need of:
    RESCUING
    VISIONING
    LEVERAGING
    POSITIONING
    ASSESSING
    COACHING
WITH
  • COMPANIES
  • Bright Operations™ has worked with:
    AECOM
    ARB Structures/All Day Electric
    Arthur Metzler & Associates (AMA)
    Berliner & Associates
    Charles Pankow Builders
    Clark Construction
    DPR Construction
    Glumac
    HGA
    HOK
    Jones Lang LaSalle
    Lucia Mar Unified School District
    Perkins & Will
    Structural Focus
    Syska Hennessy Group
TO ACCELERATE GROWTH.

Change is inevitable. To stay the course with the status quo is comfortable but dangerous, and sometimes fatal in today’s business environment. Taking action to stay in front of the change, to build new offers and teams who quickly embrace new opportunities – generates results, companywide excitement and sometimes surprising innovations.

Bright Operations can help you “operationalize” your goals so you reach them. We can assist in determining what separates you from the pack and how to differentiate your value to your clients. We will help you “step on it” and drive focused actions toward success.

Bright Operations methodology will grow your market share nurture your ambitions and deliver a rich sense of accomplishment. Funny thing about success… afterwards the team players will proclaim “Wow! Look at what we’ve accomplished!” Then what inevitably follows is “Hey, let’s go for it again.”

Changing markets demand

we move
  • faster 
  • In his book, The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything, Stephen M. R. Covey writes that trust is an essential element in business: "When trust goes up, speed goes up while costs come down." Conversely, "When trust goes down, speed goes down and costs come up."
and
  • smarter.
  • Did you know… An experiment reveals that elephants not only cooperate, but that they understand the logic behind teamwork. Now that's a smart human lesson learned from the animal kingdom!

TESTIMONIALS

"Ann facilitated the creation of a vision for the Cal Poly architectural engineering program.  The faculty is a healthy mix of researchers and seasoned practitioners where consensus is very difficult to attain. Undaunted, she interviewed each member to understand the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and roadblocks facing the department and successfully orchestrated our reaching a vision."

Dr. Allen Estes, Professor & Head, Dept. of Architectural Engineering, Cal Poly

"Ann led our team with great skill and professionalism. She was empathetic and nurturing at times and tough as nails at others. Ann was responsive, dedicated and persistent. She remained perpetually positive and possesses extraordinary people skills. She really got to know everyone and gained tremendous insights into the department in a very short time."

Dr. Allen Estes, Professor and Head, Dept. of Architectural Engineering, Cal Poly

"Ann successfully led our architectural engineering program retreats where she gave assignments, established sub-committees and involved all members of our faculty.  She approached the task with gusto and enthusiasm. I highly recommend her to others and would gladly hire her again myself."

Dr. Allen Estes, Professor and Head, Dept. of Architectural Engineering, Cal Poly

"Ann's insights into our firm helped kickoff our rebranding process and re-energized our business development and marketing efforts."

Richard Berliner,  Principal, Berliner & Associates

"Ann’s help leading our strategic planning has ensured that we can continue our strong growth, while improving the delivery of services to our clients. She is an essential partner to PlanNet."

Dan McNary, CEO, PlanNet

"Leadership, creativity, business savvy and market leadership is what Bright Operations brings to PlanNet’s executive team."

Dan McNary, CEO, PlanNet

"There came a moment recently when I realized the executive coaching work I had been doing with Ann clicked into place for me.  Applying all the valuable guidance, insight, constructive feedback, and the straight forward hard facts about the challenges faced as a firm leader are starting to take hold in my everyday awareness and being."

Zak Zakalik, Principal, Summit Engineering Inc.

“Ann has a true understanding of our business, the architecture/engineering industry, how the players play, and what firm’s need from their leaders.  It was important for me to gain some needed tools and skills to improve how I was interacting with my team members.  It has been a great experience having Ann as an executive coach."

Zak Zakalik, Principal, Summit Engineering Inc.

"Imagining a firm’s potential is both critical and personal.  Ann interviewed us, learned about us and advocated for our entire team in the development of our new vision statement.  Her guidance allowed us the ability for exploration while at the same time pushed us forward when we got lost.  With Ann’s leadership, our passion and vision came to life motivating our entire organization."

Kim Lum, CEO and President, Charles Pankow Builders, Ltd.

"Through Ann’s efforts,we have developed a vision for growth along with a road map of goals that we need to achieve in order to get there. As a result, we have already more than doubled our fundraising efforts over the last 5 years, which enables us to help more students interested in the AEC industry."  

Lori Guidry, Chairman, ACE Mentor Los Angeles Board

"Ann did not do what I originally thought I wanted. Instead, she started asking more and more questions until she finally helped me to see the bigger picture. She then helped our leadership team identify our market distinction and map out a plan for our firm's long term"

David W. Cocke, Founder & President, Structural Focus

"Ann is the consummate strategist. Her ability to rapidly assess a situation, bring a fresh and creative perspective to our thinking, and place realistic solutions in front of us is indicative of her personal approach."

Brett Shwery, Senior Vice President, AECOM

"Ann's energy and enthusiasm engaged the entire office in a process of reaching out to our clients, gathering information and culminating in an office retreat where we put into words our core values and strengths."

Richard Berliner, Principal,Berliner & Associates
"While chatting over lunch one day, I mentioned the concept of a new service offering that we were playing with - Ann jumped all over it and helped us put it all together!"

David W. Cocke, Founder & President, Structural Focus

"Ann has helped us over the years to continue to discover our value differentiators and strategic direction while astutely being able to put those directions into action plans that are doable and measurable over time."

Gary Brennen, Co-CEO, Syska Hennessy Group

"We needed some discipline, some organization, some guidance...and Ann provided all of that with enthusiasm and smarts, and made it fun the whole time!"

David W. Cocke, Founder & President, Structural Focus

"Given the volatile economic climate, Ann's ability to quickly wade through the murky business waters and provide clarity through research and discovery, has enabled our practice to better understand our business markets and the clients we serve. This discovery and understanding has led to Ann's team approach of recommendations to operationalize ideas into a strategy for success."

Brett Shwery, Senior Vice President, AECOM

"Ann is an advocate for change, not simply for change's sake, but to keep the organizations she serves at the forefront."

Gary Brennen, Co-CEO, Syska Hennessy Group

"She may be one of the best "planners" I have seen where steps are mapped out - first over a multi-year program and then drilled down further into months and days of actions needed to move ever forward."

Gary Brennen, Co-CEO, Syska Hennessy Group

"Companies that have been in business for many years or starting out new will see the importance of Ann's approach and the ensuing results."

Brett Shwery, Senior Vice President, AECOM

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RESCUING
Under performing units - no one wants to be part of a losing team

We have all seen the frustrated CEO warning a business unit that they need to improve. At Bright Operations, we believe that if people knew what to do they would be doing it - no one likes being on a losing team. When the doldrums hit most people start working harder and longer at doing what they have always done. Unfortunately, they'll most likely produce the same lack luster results. Bright Operations audits underperforming business units first by listening. We listen to team members, CEOs and Clients alike to discover the real issues that exist. Then we work to address them. We give them permission and a process to confront what had been preventing their desired outcomes and incomes.

VISIONING
Developing a shared vision and strategy with your team

When people are a part of advancing a new vision and strategy they become engaged and instrumental in achieving it. Bright Operations can work with you to plan for and facilitate highly inspired meetings to capture the interest and involvement of the team and, importantly, the strategy, initiatives and operational tactics to go after your vision and get it!

LEVERAGING
Leveraging Your Team for Real Power

Eight independent contributors sitting together in regular meetings does not make a leadership team. It is not about communicating what you are doing to seven of your peers, it is about working together toward greatness. Bright Operations builds a team's leadership muscle by focusing on key processes; leverage points, collective vision, transparency, and accountability. You want results? Let's get the team rowing in the same direction - towards the goals they establish. When you are on a team that's harnessing it's capabilities - that's real power and the results are often a huge ROI.

METHODS -&- SERVICES

The time is NOW to know and pursue ways to best harness the untapped potential in your firm. That is what we do – we are a fresh set of eyes when you are too close to a situation. First we shift paralyzing conversations of the past to the possibilities of the future. Then we go to work; it’s rewarding and it’s a blast. If you want to get there and do the work, we will be wildly successful together.

ABOUT US

Bright Operations is a business growth accelerator for results driven CEOs. The Bright Operations model of augmenting teams to achieve greater profits was developed after Ann Banning-Wright, the founding partner, saw a need to help time-starved CEOs and C-Suites achieve greater success for their teams and their firms. Together we create methodologies that will help you accelerate your company’s market share, nurture individual and company ambitions and achieve a rich sense of accomplishment.

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