ABOUT
Bridget Timmeney is the managing director of Align AZO LLC, a consulting firm based out of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Align AZO was founded in July 2019 and was inspired by Bridget’s lifelong career based in Kalamazoo, which later led to working with communities nationwide.
Bridget has advanced business and community alignment and strategic planning related to workforce development and the Kalamazoo Promise, and works with other communities developing place-based scholarship programs. She has collaborated on evaluations of state and local workplace literacy programs, developed community and regional benchmark indicators, and was a key investigator on the Kansas City Scholars evaluation and the Columbus Promise evaluation. Bridget has also completed projects for several communities related to labor market analysis, including an examination of education and talent development systems and how they are linked with economic development initiatives. As lead project manager at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Bridget has served as the data manager and strategic partner in a local collective impact model aligned around increasing educational outcomes birth to career. She is also a founding member of the local college access network and the founder of the local tax counseling initiative to assist low income individuals with access to the Earned Income Tax Credit, Child Care Tax Credit and Homestead Credit. She earned her Master of Social Work in Policy, Planning and Administration at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.