Who we are & what we believe
Our Core Team
The BrightLeaf Group team is led by experienced professionals recognized as subject-matter experts in strategic planning and communications.
- Strategic advisors & coaches
- Web & app developers
- User experience & service designers
- Accessibility experts
- Writers & editors
- Data visualization, graphics & infographic designers
- Content strategists
- Social media specialists
- Project management professionals
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Jane Scott
Founder and CEO
Jane Scott Founder and CEO
Jane has been developing leading-edge solutions in strategic communications for over 30 years, working closely with local and global clients across a wide range of industries. As an entrepreneur and CEO, Jane has grown BrightLeaf Group from a one-woman, home-based business to a substantial, multi-talented company serving clients throughout the U.S., Europe, Canada and Asia. As the primary account executive, she oversees innovative customer solutions, enabling an expert team that delivers the highest level of customer service in our industry. Her experience at BrightLeaf Group includes working with Fortune 500 and other clients in the health, technology, energy, consumer and government sectors.
She is a speaker and leader contributing to international professional organizations that focus on communications, technology and continuing education for entrepreneurs and their teams. Jane holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the University of North Texas and is a graduate of the top-rated Birthing of Giants, an intensive three-year CEO continuing education program at MIT.
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Joanne Severn
Contract Manager
Joanne Severn Contract Manager
Joanne manages agreements between BrightLeaf and its customers, prime contractors, subcontractors, vendors and others. She brings over 27 years of experience in Contract Management and Procurement in public and private sectors, and has specialized in complex Information Technology (IT) products and services.
Joanne managed major IT contracts including Texas.gov, the official website of the State of Texas, and the Data Center Services program, which included contracts valued at over $1 billion. This contract management included monitoring vendor performance, monitoring Service Level Agreements, reporting, developing RFPs, negotiating, managing awards and overseeing Statements of Work.
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Ed Garner
Innovation & Technology
Ed Garner Innovation & Technology
Ed Garner is a digital services team leader with 20 years of experience in software development for corporate, government, higher education, and K-12 clients. He oversees BrightLeaf’s IT systems, leads in solving business and technical challenges, and mentors our creative and technical teams. Ed has held roles including Director of Learning Technology and Software Developer for large technology companies, as well as Principal Engineer, Vice President, and Director of Technology. His responsibilities have included content management, quality assurance, and implementation of Project Management Institute (PMI) principles. Ed earned a B.A. in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin.
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June Holder
Strategic Communications Director
June Holder Strategic Communications Director
June is a seasoned global corporate communications leader with extensive experience in identifying business challenges and opportunities, crafting integrated communications strategies, and delivering innovative solutions that produce lasting results.
As a trusted advisor to senior executives, she brings a well-rounded perspective from managing enterprise-wide communications for a global organization that powers supply chains worldwide.
Her expertise originated from her 20-year tenure at UPS, where she pioneered roles in sustainability, diversity, equity, inclusion, and humanitarian initiatives. Her work has spanned external, employee, executive, and corporate responsibility communications, including company and individual branding strategies, engagement strategies, thought leadership advisory, media relations, M&A communications, and managing the company’s website. She also led the company’s respected sustainability program for employees.
Known as a “communications Swiss Army Knife,” June is adept at helping our clients navigate the complexities of large organizations. She holds a BS in Business/Marketing and executive certificates in Communications Strategy, Project Management, and Logistics Management.
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Sabrina S. Watkins
Sustainability Advisor, Global Executive
Sabrina S. Watkins Sustainability Advisor, Global Executive
Sabrina Watkins brings practical counsel drawn from many years of working with C-level and sustainability leadership to advance global corporate sustainability policies and strategies. Focusing on investor priorities, Sabrina strengthens relationships between companies, investors, and activists. She constructively bridges business and activism to deliver more integrated environmental, social, and economic results.
Sabrina retired from ConocoPhillips in 2017 after nearly a decade as global head of sustainability, with responsibility for corporate policies, positions, implementation strategies, results, and reporting. She worked closely with the board, executive team, and investors. During her tenure, the company reduced over 7 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, saved over $100 million, and reduced shareholder concerns all within an efficient implementation framework. During her first 20 years in the oil and gas industry, she held engineering to senior management roles in regional assets, production, procurement, drilling, health, safety, and environment for onshore and offshore locations. She then led teams for early-stage innovation, upstream and downstream emerging technologies, and upstream technology strategy before leading corporate environmental technology.
Her recent public speaking has addressed sustainability performance, carbon asset risk, socially responsible investor (SRI) engagement, action alternatives to fossil fuel divestment, transparency, and the importance of ecological economics in decision-making.
Sabrina serves on the boards of Future 500 and Presidio Graduate School. She previously served as Board Chair of the U.S. Business Council for Sustainable Development and as an advisor to Councils of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Lab and the Global Environmental Management Initiative.
Sabrina earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Lehigh University and an MBA in Sustainable Business from Presidio Graduate School.
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Lynnette McIntire
Sustainability Communications Advisor, Global Executive
Lynnette McIntire Sustainability Communications Advisor, Global Executive
Lynnette provides advisory services in sustainability reporting strategy, executive thought leadership, issues management, materiality, and stakeholder engagement. Her 15 years of advisory work draw on her technical knowledge of reporting frameworks and her deep understanding of the operational, governance, human capital, and financial aspects of sustainability.
She has coached hundreds of C-level and other executives in sustainability strategy and reporting as a consultant, Senior Teaching Fellow (Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship), and Senior Fellow of Social Innovation (Babson College Lewis Center).
Lynnette has written more than 20 GRI reports. She has led more than 20 materiality assessments and co-authored an often-cited Harvard Business Review article with the UPS CFO who now serves on the SASB Board of Directors. Having written TCFD reports and CDP submissions, Lynnette also advises on decarbonization plans and communications, She has served as a featured speaker at notable sustainability conferences.
In global leadership positions at UPS for 17 years, Lynnette served as the Director of Global Reputation Management, Sustainability Communications, Executive Communications, Supply Chain Communications, and Public Relations programs. She collaborated with the UPS Investor Relations team on sustainability responses and disclosures as a liaison with investors, third-party ranking entities, and shareholders.
Prior to UPS, Lynnette managed marketing communications for FedEx (AsiaPacific) and spent a decade with various Public Relations firms, posted in Bangkok, Hong Kong, and the U.S. She earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Minnesota.
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Cheryl Habbe
SENIOR UX DESIGNER
Cheryl Habbe SENIOR UX DESIGNER
Cheryl is an experienced web UX design expert and information architect with more than 20 years of industry experience. She provides strategic leadership in human-centered UX design and user research for our mission-driven government agencies, nonprofits, and other organizations building or redesigning public and internal-facing websites. She specializes in auditing, planning, and designing UX for large, complex websites that serve diverse audiences. Cheryl earned a BS in Advertising from Texas Tech University
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Mark Macdonald
Senior Digital Project Manager
Mark Macdonald Senior Digital Project Manager
As a Sr. Project Manager, Mark’s role is to ensure that our team has the talent, resources and client interaction necessary to deliver positive digital experiences. He is well-versed in website and software development and has experience with several content management systems (CMS), including WordPress, Drupal and Craft.
Mark co-founded and operated a successful custom software and web development company for over 24 years prior to directing the company through acquisition in 2020. He has managed hundreds of websites and web-based application development projects for clients in both the public and private sectors. -
Ed Trujillo
Digital Project Manager
Ed Trujillo Digital Project Manager
Ed is one of BrightLeaf’s talented Digital Project Managers specializing in complex application design, Agile development, IT infrastructure, and Cybersecurity. Throughout his 20+ year career, he has played key roles at state agencies and large international software and hardware companies, successfully managing a wide range of projects from inception to deployment. Ed is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). He has also earned the following from various universities: a BS in Computer Science, a BS in Electrical Engineering, an Advanced Project Management Certificate, and a Master Certificate (MC) in Project Management.
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Jack Spellman
Senior Captioning Manager
Jack Spellman Senior Captioning Manager
Jack has experience with closed-captioning production and operations dating to the 1980s, managing offline and real-time captioning production teams and coordinating the efforts of staff and freelance independent contractors to provide captioning for a wide array of producers and broadcasters. He assists BrightLeaf customers with setting up and managing offline and real-time captioning of events for in-person and remote audiences (including symposia, conferences, graduations, and sports events), television broadcasts, and live to the web.
Before joining BrightLeaf, Jack worked for the National Captioning Institute (1980-83, 1985-89) and the Media Access Group at WGBH (1990-2008), where he helped develop operational procedures and created captioning for network broadcasts, and opened and managed NCI's New York City captioning facility, which produced captioning for commercials as well as network and cable broadcasts. Jack also helped develop real-time captioning production of national and local news and sports broadcasts, initially under the aegis of the U.S. Department of Education and later independently, for the Media Access Group, eventually being named operations manager of the Group's real-time captioning office.
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Roger Glenn
Web Development
Roger Glenn Web Development
Roger brings over 20 years of experience in responsive front-end and back-end development, database and CMS integrations, and app development. His specialties include Responsive Web Design (RWD), mobile websites, HTML5, CSS3, PHP/MySQL programming, LAMP stack development, information architecture, relational database design, accessibility, unobtrusive JavaScript, jQuery and search engine optimization (SEO).
Working with multiple content management systems such as Craft CMS, ExpressionEngine and Statamic, Roger follows widely adopted best practices and future-proof workflows such as mobile first and modular design. He also designs performance into websites to intelligently balance visual aesthetics with practical metrics such as page speed, page weight and perceived performance. Roger works closely with our UX/UI and visual designers and is familiar with many design prototyping tools.
Roger has worked with diverse organizations including ACL Live at Moody Theater, Bausch & Lomb, Capital Area Council of Governments, Disney, Harris County Appraisal District, Home Depot, KKR, Laura Mercier, LBJ Presidential Library, Texas Women’s Health Program, Walmart Canada, and United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Advertising from the University of Texas at Austin.
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Emily Sharp
Visual Design
Emily Sharp Visual Design
Emily offers over 20 years of creative design experience across a broad range of corporate and government clients and projects. Her design concentration lies in accessible web, mobile and interactive design, print design, motion and still graphics, illustrations, and photography. Emily leads our design team in producing accessible online publications and other online materials using the latest interactive formats.
Her experience includes corporate-level communications work for our global and local clients, including Capital Area Council of Governments, Coca-Cola, Dell, Dynegy, Hanger, Schlumberger, Seton Hospital, Texas Women’s Health Program, Texas Health and Human Services Commission, Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, The University of Texas, and many emerging technology companies. Emily holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Design from The University of Texas at Austin (Dean’s List, Art and Design Scholarships).