About Glenna Wiseman
Helping Teams Turn What Matters Most into Meaningful Action
What matters most? What is standing in the way? And how do we strengthen the human infrastructure to get it done?
I have helped clean energy and clean tech companies thrive for more than 20 years. First through marketing, communications, brand strategy, stakeholder engagement, and organizational growth, and now through strengthening the human infrastructure underneath execution.
My perspective is also shaped by years of working inside venture-backed, acquired, and private-equity-backed companies. I understand the portfolio-company side of value creation: what happens when capital, strategy, leadership expectations, and operating reality meet inside the organization, and teams must turn that ambition into measurable progress.
Across my career as an executive, entrepreneur, consultant, advisor, and coach, I have seen the power of teams when they are aligned, in sync, and committed to making great things happen. Teams are where strategy becomes real. They are where trust, communication, decisions, and shared purpose either accelerate progress or quietly slow it down.
Today, I partner with clean energy and clean tech teams to identify what matters most, understand the team’s capacity to execute, remove barriers, integrate AI effectively where it supports the work, and move critical priorities forward with greater clarity, speed, and trust.
“In a moment when many teams are present but disengaged, my work helps people reconnect to their work, to each other, and to why the team exists in the first place.”
How I Work
My work focuses on how teams function as a system—surfacing patterns, strengthening alignment, and creating the conditions for more effective decision-making and performance.
I create space for honest dialogue, bring forward what may not yet be visible, and translate insight into meaningful action.
Signature Work — Tools for Strengthening Human Infrastructure
Permission to Bloom tools are designed to help leaders see what teams need in order to move critical priorities forward with more clarity, capacity, and momentum.
The first available digital tool is the AI Uplift Assessment, a practical readiness snapshot for leaders preparing for AI adoption or expansion. It helps leaders look beyond the tool rollout and consider whether the team system is ready to hold the change.
I am also the creator of the PTB Team Energy Barometer℠, a practical pulse tool used in facilitated Permission to Bloom engagements to help leaders understand team energy, capacity, and alignment.
Together, these tools support a larger purpose: helping leaders clarify what matters most, surface what is happening inside the team system, and strengthen the human infrastructure needed to create meaningful change.
→ Explore Tools & Resources
→ Take the AI Uplift Assessment
In the Field
My work extends beyond advisory engagements into workshops, leadership labs, and speaking, where real-time challenges are explored and insights are surfaced through collective dialogue.
These sessions often serve as a living lab, informing both my advisory work and broader thought leadership.
Experience & Credentials
This work is supported by a combination of executive experience and advanced training, including:
- 20+ years in renewable energy leadership
- Background in marketing, brand strategy, stakeholder engagement, organizational development
- Systemic Team Coaching® (WeQ) Practitioner Certification
- Advanced Accreditation in Team Coaching (ICF)
- Transitional Intelligence (TQ) Certification
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Women in Leadership Certification, University of San Francisco School of Management
- InnerMBA Leadership Program Certification
- Leadership facilitator with WRISE (national and Bay Area) and other organizations
- Advisor, Women in Leadership Program, University of San Francisco School of Management
- Advisor to teams navigating growth, change, and complexity
Perspective
My work is grounded in the belief that the strength of a team is not only in what it delivers and also in how the team connects, aligns, and moves forward together.
I also believe beauty lives within every person, team, and organization. When tapped through purpose activation, it becomes a source of meaningful transformation.
