Bridget Nelson Monroe named a MSPBJ Women in Business honoree

Fif­teen years ago, when Brid­get Nel­son Mon­roe first walked through the door of our office in down­town Pri­or Lake, we were four peo­ple doing what we could with low name recog­ni­tion and boot­strap bud­gets as we worked out of a for­mer exer­cise stu­dio. Today, Bell­mont Part­ners has grown into a top Twin Cities PR and com­mu­ni­ca­tions agency, with 25 team mem­bers serv­ing clients in Min­neso­ta, across the coun­try and internationally.

Through the years, and now as Part­ner + Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, Brid­get played a major role in get­ting us here. That’s why it’s par­tic­u­lar­ly grat­i­fy­ing that on Fri­day, she was rec­og­nized as one of Minneapolis/St. Paul Busi­ness Journal’s Women in Busi­ness hon­orees for her work with our clients, col­leagues and community.

Dur­ing her tenure help­ing to shape all aspects of our grow­ing agency, Bell­mont Part­ners has thrived. We’ve earned five MSPBJ Best Places to Work and five nation­al Inc. Best Work­place recog­ni­tions and spent two years on the Busi­ness Jour­nal Fast 50 list of the region’s fastest-grow­ing com­pa­nies. We work with amaz­ing clients, in indus­tries from health, pro­fes­sion­al ser­vices, pub­lic affairs and non­prof­its to tech, man­u­fac­tur­ing, hor­ti­cul­ture and agri­cul­ture and tourism and events.

I’m grate­ful for Bridget’s many con­tri­bu­tions to help shape our agency’s cul­ture, as well as its process­es and peo­ple. Today, her focus is on ele­vat­ing the next lev­el of lead­er­ship to sus­tain and improve upon this foun­da­tion, allow­ing her to lean into exter­nal pri­or­i­ties, such as expand­ing local con­nec­tions, guid­ing clients on the use of AI in com­mu­ni­ca­tions, deep­en­ing and high­light­ing agency core capa­bil­i­ties, and con­sult­ing on mis­sion-dri­ven client projects across the agency.

She has left her imprint on clients includ­ing Twin Cities Habi­tat for Human­i­ty, the City of Duluth, Min­neso­ta DNR Parks and Trails, Cen­tro Tyrone Guz­man, Hen­nepin EMS and many more, com­bin­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions, com­mu­ni­ty rela­tions and cross-sec­tor col­lab­o­ra­tion. She’s a tremen­dous leader with­in the agency and beyond.

Con­grat­u­la­tions on this well-deserved recog­ni­tion, Bridget!