Bridgett LaFountain is the Senior Director of Employee Relations where she leads a team of HR Business Partners that provide Human Resources collaboration and solutions for the central academics and professional schools.
Previously, Bridgett served as the Director, Employee Relations for the School of Medicine since 2017. In the fall of 2021, Bridgett also served as the the interim Director for the Talent Acquisition team for one year and was the program lead for the Recruitment Strategic Initiative.
Bridgett joined Yale in 2014 as the Assistant Director for Employee Relations and led the Employee Relations teams that partnered with Hospitality, Facilities, New Haven and State Affairs, and Athletics.
Prior to Yale, Bridgett spent 13 years at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, a Lockheed Martin Company, where she held positions of increasing responsibilities in Labor Relations, Talent Acquisition, and HR partner roles with Engineering, Development Programs, Operations and Quality organizations. In these roles, she led key human resources initiatives such as program management, organization design, talent acquisition, labor relations and employee engagement.
Bridgett has a BS degree from Shepherd University and a MS degree in Labor Relations from the University of New Haven where she also was an adjunct professor teaching human resource management.