Signature keynote
Let's Do BrıdgeWork! Cultivating a people-centered workplace
The full session. The framework, the self-assessment, and the stories behind both, built around whatever your people are actually carrying right now.
Nobody arrives finished. Everyone is closing a gap.
First week on the job or twenty years in, the shape changes but the work does not. There is distance between what you can do and what is being asked of you, between who you are and how you get to show up at work. Our early data says that holds all the way across the experience spectrum. The new hire is closing a gap. So is the director who has led people for a decade.
We want to change the world of work for the next generation. That happens three ways: investing in people early, changing how leadership engages them, and putting the conditions for success in place so effort actually turns into progress. A session with us is where that starts, and it starts with the people in the room rather than a slide about culture.
Takeaways
What you leave with
A name for your gap
Vague frustration is hard to act on. A specific distance is not. You leave able to say what yours actually is, in a sentence, without hedging.
The pattern that runs you
Under pressure everyone falls back on something that once kept them safe and now gets in the way. You take the self-assessment and find yours, along with what to do the next time it shows up.
Something to ask for
Development is not something that happens to you. You leave knowing what to ask of a manager, a mentor, or a team, and what you can offer back so the ask lands.
One thing to do Monday
Not a binder. One change small enough that you will actually make it and real enough that somebody notices you did.
Sessions
What we bring
Every session is shaped around your theme and your room on the discovery call.
The Conditions for Success: A People-Centered Approach
InteractiveWhat do you bring to work, and what does it cost you to leave it at the door? We walk the BridgeWork Framework and look honestly at what it takes to invest in a job at a level that is worth it to you.
The Culture Shift Starts Within: Tackling the Hidden Barriers to Collaboration
WorkshopThe instincts that protected you early can hijack you later. You learn to catch yours in the moment and choose something else, which turns out to be most of what collaboration really is.
Draws on Dr. Shirzad Chamine's research on Saboteurs.
Included
Every booking
A discovery call
Before we build anything, we want to know who is in the room, what they are carrying into it, and what you are hoping shifts by the time they leave.
A session built for your room
Your theme, your language, examples people recognize from their own week. We do not arrive with a stock deck and swap the logo.
We will not promise you a number. What people tell us afterward is that teams are more connected, that individuals feel heard, and that the people they worked hard to hire are still there.
On stage
Delivered by our co-founders
Anthony Bolden
Co-founder and CEOAnthony brings leadership and strategic planning from his tenure as a nonprofit CEO, and a focus on first-generation professionals getting the training and mentorship the early career actually requires. At BridgeWork he leads business development, strategy, and operations. His work has been recognized with the National Speech & Debate Association's Advancing Equity Award and WVON's 40 Game Changers Under 40.
Charles Cammack
Co-founder and COOCharles brings deep expertise in curriculum development and educational resources, built over years in higher education. He widened the original concept to cover early-career employees and their employers together, and he builds the systems that keep development going long after a session ends.
Where we have been
Recent stages
- Cultivate Conference, by Prismatic
- Heidelberg Materials
- City Year Chicago
- Axelson Center at North Park University
- Arlington Heights Memorial Library
- Urban Alliance
- LINK Unlimited Scholars