Brittney L. Brown Cooper is a transformative strategist, relational facilitator, and dedicated scholar-practitioner with over two decades of experience in higher education. Currently serving as Director of Operations and Staff Success within Arizona State University's Admission Services, Brittney leads with clarity, compassion, and vision—bringing structure to complexity and humanity to systems.
At the heart of her leadership is a commitment to cultivating inclusive, thriving, and resilient workplace cultures. She designs and directs strategic initiatives that enhance employee voice, elevate operational excellence, and embed values into the very fabric of organizational life. As one of only two Master Spark Method™ facilitators at ASU, Brittney helps teams and leaders engage in courageous dialogue, transforming friction into possibility.
Brittney’s expertise spans organizational design, change management, executive communication, leadership coaching, and trauma-informed facilitation. With credentials in Predictive Index analytics, Lean Six Sigma, and cultural intelligence, she brings both rigor and empathy to her work—melding data-driven insights with human-centered design. She is also the creator of the Sandbox Method™, a relational framework for cultivating psychological safety, autonomy, and innovation across all levels of an organization.
As a researcher, Brittney explores the intersections of leadership discourse and employee agency, seeking to understand how intentional language and inclusive structures co-create workplace culture. Her work is a bridge between theory and practice, always in service of equity, growth, and belonging.
Guided by a core belief in the extraordinary potential of people and partnerships, Brittney invites others to reflect boldly, lead with integrity, and build communities where every voice matters and every contribution counts.