Transform Your Business with Brio Performance Solutions

Brio Performance Solutions has helped companies achieve the balance necessary to grow and succeed since 2008. Brio’s solutions are customized for you. Owner and founder Linda Diefendorff personally consults with each company to learn their processes, objectives, and key issues, then designs and implements a custom solution to help them achieve their leadership and performance goals.

Brio targets four components that are critical for a company’s success: leadership, organization, processes, and change management. What sets Brio apart is the unique ability to integrate organizational development and process improvement to achieve maximum impact. It’s a delicate balance, because without one you cannot have the other.

It’s not just the solution, but the way it’s implemented that will ensure success. Brio remains a trusted partner throughout implementation – and often long after – by connecting solutions to the company’s strategy and driving them to the team and individual levels to deeply ingrain them in all layers of the organization.

DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION FUNCTION THE WAY YOU WANT IT TO?

To make meaningful change, you may need to clarify and define your company’s structure, culture, and goals. Brio will analyze the situation, identify the core issues, and develop an action plan to help you put the right pieces into place to move forward.

Brio’s engagement spans the entire project from needs analysis through plan development, implementation, and coaching. Your custom, integrated plan will target the necessary organizational development and process improvement solutions by focusing on the most critical issues and opportunities.

Organization

Stepping back to refocus on who the organization is and where you want to go by analyzing culture, mission, and values.

Leadership

Developing individual capabilities and skills to achieve better cohesion and effective teamwork at the leadership level.

Process

Removing redundancies and inefficiencies, defining roles and responsibilities, setting clear goals and expectations, and developing business process training to educate everyone involved.

Change Management

Recognizing the best way for your organization to transition

through large and small changes in a way that makes people feel informed and respected.

LINDA DIEFENDORFF

Linda Diefendorff is a business consultant who specializes in organizational and leadership development, process improvement, and change management. She has a unique talent to pinpoint what it is about an organization’s culture that makes them successful in their market, and helps them realign their employees and processes so they will shine.

Linda’s experience comes from consulting with more than 75 companies in many industries, including education, financial services, government, healthcare, manufacturing, nonprofit, and retail.

In 2008, Linda opened the doors of Brio Performance Solutions to share her expertise with organizations who want to enhance their leadership skills, are dealing with a major change, or are trying to think differently about how they do business. She has the ability to quickly understand a client’s business and challenges, and the skill to develop impactful solutions that are practical and successful.

Linda is a national speaker and has presented at conferences held by organizations such as The Conference Board, the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and the Association of Change Management Professionals on topics such as change management and the virtual workforce. She is the past facilitator for Akron’s Torchbearers Learning & Development program and taught workshops through Kent State University’s Center for Corporate and Professional Development. Linda is an alum of Leadership Baton Rouge, Torchbearers, and Leadership Akron (Crew 32). She has also volunteered on multiple community boards, including having served as the Board President for the Battered Woman’s Shelter of Summit and Medina Counties and Summit Artspace.

Linda is a member of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Society for Human Resource Management. She holds an M.A. in Industrial/ Organizational Psychology from The University of Akron and a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Business from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. She is also certified in Prosci’s change management methodology, Change Intelligence® and in Human Resources (SPHR). Her previous employers include Tier1 Performance Solutions, Western Union, SSA Consultants, and Accenture.

Linda lives in the Akron area with her husband and two dogs. She has two adult children and in her spare time she enjoys reading, biking, walking and traveling.