Meet the Team
Our team brings decades of real experience leading talent, strategy, and people functions inside the organizations we now support, not just advising from the outside.
Courtney Bell, Partner
Superpower: Bringing clarity to complexity.
Courtney has a knack for seeing through the noise, asking the question that gets a team to the heart of an issue, and turning big ideas into clear decisions and action. She believes organizations do their best work when they create the conditions for both people and results to thrive.
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Courtney's Prism profile reads Architect: precise, systematic, and thorough, the one who finds the detail everyone else skimmed and takes the time to analyze before she concludes. Under pressure she shifts to Ambassador, turning toward people. Where the instinct could be to tighten her grip on the process, she instead listens, brings others in, and moves the group toward a shared answer. She brings that combination to her work with executives and teams, so they understand not only what needs to change, but how they need to lead together to make it happen.
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Courtney brings more than 20 years of people and organizational leadership experience across healthcare, financial services, and education. Before joining Unified Impact, she spent 14 years at KIPP, most recently as Chief People Officer of the KIPP Foundation, where she led talent strategy and strengthened leadership development, performance, compensation, workforce planning, and organizational effectiveness across the Foundation and the broader KIPP network. She holds an MBA, SHRM-CP and PHR certifications, and is a certified mediator.
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You'll probably find Courtney with a book in her hand, planning her next trip, spending time with the people she loves, or trying to convince herself her next great idea doesn't need to become another project.
Angela Bond, Managing Partner
Superpower: Telling the truth, kindly.
Angela says the thing the room is avoiding, and she says it in a way people can actually use. She has spent nearly two decades inside schools, networks, and leadership teams, which means she knows the difference between a plan that sounds good in a boardroom and one that survives contact with a Monday. She believes purpose without execution is just potential, so she does not hand leaders a strategy and leave. She builds it with them and stays to help them run it.
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Angela's Prism profile reads Visionary: big-picture, results-driven, and direct, with a tireless drive toward new opportunities. Under pressure, she shifts to Conductor, which means she turns outward rather than inward. Where the instinct could be to go solve it alone, she instead names the goal and gets the room moving toward it together. Knowing that about herself is the same work she does with clients, and it is why she can help a team see not only what the organization needs, but how each leader has to show up differently to get there.
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Angela founded Unified Impact after nearly twenty years in school leadership, network strategy, and organizational design. She has served as Chief of Staff, Chief Strategy Officer, and Chief People Officer, driving results as networks scaled. Today she anchors the firm's executive coaching practice and its CEO succession and transition work. She developed Unified Impact's Team Cohesion programs, using the SurePeople Prism assessment tools and resources to help teams work better together. She is an ICF-certified coach and certified in SurePeople Prism.
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You'll find Angela outside with her two young boys and giant Bernedoodle. Her family is working through all 63 national parks before the kids turn 18. She reads whenever the house is quiet.
Tim DeBruyne, Partner, Operations and Finance
Superpower: Building things that outlast the plan.
Tim builds the systems that make good intentions survive a calendar year. He has staffed a turnaround school, run hiring at volume, and built the tools that told leaders whether any of it was actually working. What he measures is not whether the plan launched but whether it held three years later. He is a lawyer by training, which shows up as a low tolerance for vague language and a habit of asking what happens if this goes wrong. At Unified Impact he owns operations, finance, and contracting, which is why the client work runs on time and the smooth.
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Tim's Prism profile reads Architect: analytical, methodical, and exacting, the one who gathers and checks the data before committing to a conclusion. Under pressure he shifts to Researcher, moving further into rigor rather than away from it. When the stakes rise he gets more precise, more tenacious, and more focused on the tangible result.
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Tim moved to Atlanta with his partner and transitioned into talent work, supporting hiring for both teaching and non-instructional roles. He designed and implemented new hiring processes that supported the hiring of more than 130 employees year over year, including a turnaround school that required hiring more than 70 staff members. More than 80% of those staff members remain at the school or in expanded impact roles three years later. He then moved into Director of Strategic Projects, where he led cross-functional organizational planning and execution and built new tools to measure performance, track compliance, and improve outcomes. He has served as a member of a regional leadership team and as engagement lead with a school district's School Board. Tim earned his undergraduate degree from The George Washington University and his J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law. He is admitted to practice law in New Jersey, New York, and Washington, D.C.
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Tim is at a concert, trying a restaurant he read about, or somewhere inside the never-ending renovation of his 100-year-old house. He would like the record to show that the renovation is going well.
Audrianna Lawrence, Senior Consultant
Superpower: She has sat in the chair.
Audrianna has been the assistant principal, the principal, and the person responsible for developing both. That sequence is why her leadership development work never feels theoretical: she has run the building she is now helping someone else run. She builds practical, people-centered systems, and she is direct about what is working and what is not. She believes the job of a leadership developer is to create the conditions for educators to thrive, and then get out of their way.
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Audrianna's Prism profile reads Navigator: independent, detailed, and results-oriented, a direct problem-solver who can see the practical path and plan it out. Under pressure she shifts to Peacemaker, turning toward relationships. Where the instinct could be to push harder on the goal, she instead reads the room, notices what people are carrying, and solves the problem by listening. Leaders get both from her: someone who will name the real issue, and someone who makes it safe to say out loud.
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Audrianna is a leader, educator, and leadership development practitioner with more than a decade of experience developing people, strengthening school systems, and advancing educational outcomes. At Unified Impact, she partners with organizations and leaders to strengthen leadership capacity, develop talent, and build systems that support sustainable impact. She also serves as Director of Leadership Development at KIPP Atlanta Schools, where she leads the strategic design, quality, and implementation of leadership development systems. A 2011 Teach For America corps member, she joined the founding team at KIPP WAYS Primary and spent nearly a decade with KIPP Metro Atlanta Schools as Assistant Principal, Principal, and Director of Strategic Projects, then served as Managing Director of Alumni Programs and Leadership Experiences on Teach For America's National Team. She holds a degree in Early Childhood and Elementary Education from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a master's in Language and Literacy with a Reading Specialist Certification from Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Audrianna is with her husband and two sons, or supporting children's ministry at her church.