https://www.bnmont.com/home daily 1.0 2025-05-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fecc551343748018a650ad1/1643825368255-N882CWH4285HYDYJXXJE/Brittany-Montgomery-5590.jpg Home Interdisciplinary thinking. Creative pragmatism. People-centered leadership. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fecc551343748018a650ad1/1609707154411-W1JE4PWOOSGHTOA4L5BR/IMG-20170426-WA0003.jpg Home - Understand the world through multiple lenses. Trained as a political economist, city planner, and civil engineer, I believe that complex problems require cross-displinary, mixed- method thinking and analysis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fecc551343748018a650ad1/1609707823152-X2Z06AXRHFN8RYQPL6X4/IMG_0283.jpg Home - Tailor solutions to local realities. I dig deep into the local context and user experience through grounded observation and apply an international comparative approach to develop innovative projects that leverage learnings from the Global South and Global North. My track record is built on implementation and tangible outcomes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fecc551343748018a650ad1/1610288890046-2ECTLVSW44X5DU94YEWD/20170713_074618.jpg Home - Focus on the people. People are at the center of everything I do, from mentoring to working with local communities. Honest, open communication is my hallmark. I am unafraid to tell you what you might not want to hear. https://www.bnmont.com/resume daily 0.75 2025-05-23 https://www.bnmont.com/book-project daily 0.75 2021-11-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fecc551343748018a650ad1/1615649020996-D80MD8MHEM0GK902UX2P/motosblurred2.jpg Book Project - …and coordinate city agencies to get projects done. On some projects, I orchestrated the work of 18+ agencies to solve “wicked problems” of urban planning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fecc551343748018a650ad1/1610224219048-LHEE7HLVWHT6X520HUQM/1deMayo.jpg Book Project - My job was to build infrastructure to improve urban transportation... I managed 10 projects meant to transform public transportation into a speedy, dignified way of getting around the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fecc551343748018a650ad1/1610223295800-SIF7Z3SVRSYOV1XKGQMM/20180420_174843.jpg Book Project - A few years ago, I went to work for a foreign government. I moved to Bogotá, Colombia to serve as an advisor to the Secretary of Mobility under Mayor Enrique Peñalosa. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fecc551343748018a650ad1/1615648222829-RUJV2QVNHFJ2RZ8NLDC4/IDUpptx.jpg Book Project - While I led projects, I observed patterns of perverse behaviors within public agencies. I had hoped to write an unusual success story of extraordinary cooperation across bureaucratic siloes, in pursuit of transportation infrastructure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fecc551343748018a650ad1/1610994789151-T065OIJ8N6UDPR3U0056/20210118_131117Metas%252Bv2.jpg Book Project - Performance evaluation. Policies informed by the “New Public Management” reduce governing to goal-setting and box-checking. Failure to meet quantitative goals may have criminal implications, but failure to resolve problems raised by citizens or other executive agencies is comparatively inconsequential. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fecc551343748018a650ad1/1609711681746-5IQX1VEP64427X3HMAMN/20180420_174922.jpg Book Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fecc551343748018a650ad1/1610996777255-6IW1EWVXE297F93GE3P8/IMG-20170309-WA0012.jpg Book Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fecc551343748018a650ad1/1609711511318-WQU7WWRL4FLQLO89SX3N/20181106_141744.jpg Book Project https://www.bnmont.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-10-20