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Operator, not outsider.
Faye Bonomo is the founder of Brightwork Leadership, a burnout and retention consultancy for technical companies, based in Fort Collins, Colorado. Before Brightwork she spent 18 years inside high-intensity technical industry, leading product and marketing teams, and building teams that didn't burn out.
Quick facts
Based in
Fort Collins, Colorado
Founded Brightwork
2026
Industry experience
18 years, technical industry
Education
MBA, Colorado State University
Works with
Teams nationwide, on-site in Colorado
The career behind the work
The numbers were hers to hit. The people were hers to keep.
Faye spent 18 years in demanding technical industry (instrumentation, flow measurement and industrial products), most of it at a Fortune 500 industrial technology corporation. She worked as a product manager and a marketing director, led product launches and go-to-market strategy for industrial B2B businesses, and guided teams through acquisitions and organizational change.
Along the way she built a reputation for keeping people. Her 17-person team sustained 95%+ engagement for three consecutive years in an environment where burnout was the norm. Engagement is burnout's opposite pole, and that record is the receipt for the method Brightwork now teaches.
She holds an MBA from Colorado State University. Workshop design and facilitation have been a career-long craft, not a slide deck. In 2026 she founded Brightwork Leadership to help other companies fix the systems that burn out their best people.
Faye Bonomo · Founder, Brightwork Leadership
How she works
Burnout is a system problem, not a willpower problem.
Brightwork doesn't teach people to be tougher. It fixes the way their work is designed, and trains their leaders to keep it fixed.
Diagnosis before prescription
Training is an answer, and answers should follow findings. Every engagement starts with what is actually driving the load: how the work is designed, how clear the priorities are, whether people ever really get to recover, and whether managers are spotting the early signs.
Organizational, never clinical
Brightwork diagnoses how work is designed. It never screens, assesses or reports on individuals, and findings are never an input to anyone's performance review. That is put in writing.
Honest fit, in both directions
Sometimes the right recommendation is "run these three changes yourselves and call us if it doesn't move." Brightwork is a young practice built on a long operating career, and early clients are told that plainly.
Why "Brightwork"?
On a ship, the brightwork is the metal that stays bright because someone deliberately maintains it, not because it was polished once, brilliantly, a year ago. People are no different, and hoping they stay bright is not a maintenance plan.
Work with Faye
Three ways to start.
Programs
Detect: The Two-week Burnout Read
Find out in two weeks whether you have a burnout problem, and where. $2,500, fixed.
Workshop
The Quiet Burnout Workshop
One day with the people who design the load, built for offsites and kickoffs. $7,500.
Speaking
The Quiet Burnout talk
For SHRM chapters, HR conferences, CEO peer groups and leadership teams. No fee for chapters.
Next step
Start with a conversation.
Thirty minutes. Bring the names you're worried about losing, or just the sense that your best people are running on empty. Faye will tell you honestly whether an audit, a workshop, or nothing at all is the right next move.