Two decades inside institutions, building systems for people.

Now Built For Yours.

Organizational consulting grounded in applied experience, not theory borrowed for the ocassion.

For research & Academic Institutions

Mentoring, trainee development, and team dynamics work for research programs

NRMN-based mentoring facilitation, imposter phenomenon workshops, and MBTI for lab and research teams — built by a trained CIMER facilitator with two decades inside graduate biomedical education.

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For growing businesses

Executive coaching and fractional hr and organizational develoment for teams under 50

Handbooks, onboarding automation, hiring workflows, performance systems, and MBTI team workshops — HR expertise sized for businesses that need it but can't yet justify a full-time hire.

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M.S. Organizational Leadership, Purdue | Graduate Certificate, HR Development, Purdue
MBTI Certified Practitioner, CPP Inc. | NRMN Trained Facilitator, CIMER
18+ Years, Graduate & Research Education Leadership

Track 01 - For research & Academic Institutions

Mentoring, trainee development, and team dynamics work for research programs

NRMN-based mentoring facilitation, imposter phenomenon workshops, and MBTI for lab and research teams — built by a CIMER-trained facilitator with two decades inside graduate biomedical education. These aren't borrowed frameworks: each one has been delivered directly, in guest lectures and professional development programming, to real trainee cohorts at a research university's school of medicine.

Ongoing — Mentoring Program Design & Facilitation Partner

For institutions building or running formal mentoring infrastructure tied to training grant mechanisms (T32, R25, IMSD, and similar). An ongoing partnership for program design, facilitator training, and ongoing session delivery — scoped and quoted per program.

Track 02 - For Growing Businesses

Executive coaching and fractional HR and organizational development for teams under 50

Handbooks, onboarding automation, hiring workflows, performance systems, and MBTI team workshops — HR expertise sized for businesses that need it but can't yet justify a full-time hire.

What's included
  • Employee handbooks and policy documentation
  • Onboarding process design and automation
  • Hiring workflows and job description writing
  • Employee relations and conflict navigation
  • Performance review system design
  • Manager training and HR compliance basics
  • MBTI team dynamics workshops (add-on)
Why fractional, not full-time

A dedicated HR hire is a five- or six-figure commitment most businesses under 50 people can't justify. Fractional HR gives you the same expertise — handbooks, onboarding, hiring systems, performance structure — scaled to actual need, with the option to grow the relationship as the team does.

Retainer tiers
Starter

Foundational support

$1,500/mo 5 hours / month
  • Policy review
  • Email support
  • One deliverable per month
Growth

Building infrastructure

$2,500/mo 10 hours / month
  • Onboarding build
  • Ongoing support
  • Quarterly check-in
Partner

Full fractional HR

$4,000+/mo 15–20 hours / month
  • Full fractional HR
  • MBTI workshop included
  • Priority support

Track 03 - For Photographers and Studios

Systems & design, for photographers and small studio owners

GHL setup, booking automation, client pipelines, website design, and SEO — built from systems tested on a working photography business, plus one-on-one photography training.

GHL account builds Booking automation Website design SEO Photography training

About

The person behind BSW Ventures

Two decades of applied experience inside research and graduate education, now built into three practice areas.

Brandy Wood

Brandy Wood

Principal, BSW Ventures LLC
  • M.S., Organizational Leadership — Purdue University
  • Graduate Certificate, HR Development — Purdue University
  • MBTI Certified Practitioner — CPP, Inc.
  • NRMN Trained Facilitator — CIMER

Brandy Wood spent more than eighteen years inside graduate and research education, leading recruitment, retention, mentoring, and professional development for hundreds of trainees at Indiana University School of Medicine — most recently in graduate program leadership, overseeing student success initiatives, faculty partnerships, and training-grant programming for biomedical graduate education. In January 2026, she left that role to build BSW Ventures full time.

She holds an MBTI certification from CPP, Inc. (2016) and completed NRMN facilitator training through CIMER (2018) — the methodology behind the workshops and mentoring programs offered through BSW Ventures. That combination of formal credential and two decades of applied, in-the-room facilitation is what separates this work from a generalist consultant's borrowed framework. It's also what makes the transition possible: this isn't a new interest, it's a two-decade practice now built as its own business.

Selected presentations
  • "Self-Efficacy & Impostor Phenomenon" — guest lecture, Entering Biomedical Research
  • "Overcoming Impostor Phenomenon" — Biomedical Summer Undergraduate Research Program
  • "Understanding and Working with Personality Type" — MBTI theory in virtual/lab environments
  • "Finding, Navigating, and Polishing Your Application to Biomedical Science PhD Programs" — National Ronald E. McNair Research Conference
  • "Crafting Your Personal Development Plan" — SAEOPP McNair/SSS Scholars Research Conference

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