Brianne Rogers has two decades of policy, communications, and management experience, having held director positions in both Washington, D.C. and Bozeman, Montana for Montana’s longest-serving U.S. Senator, Max Baucus, as well as serving as Montana Chief of Staff for U.S. Senator John Walsh.

 

She rocketed into the private sector in 2015, launching her consulting business, Bird Dog Strategies, LLC. Brianne has become an essential asset to her clients, steering major organizations in the region through rapid response and crisis communications while providing brand strategy leadership that has resulted in triple digit sales growth for other clients.

 

Brianne is a Montanan committed to making the state a better place, and known by colleagues across the state for getting things done and building lasting relationships. In this spirit, she was appointed by Governor Steve Bullock to the Montana Board of Regents in 2018 and elected by her colleagues to serve as Chair in 2022, the youngest individual elected to this position since the Board's creation in 1972.

 

For over a decade, she served as Sarah Calhoun’s right-hand woman for all things Pants to Foundation, including helping to earn the Red Ants Pants Music Festival the 2018 Montana Event of the Year award from the Montana Office of Tourism.

 

In 2017/2018, she supported the establishment of and facilitated the Elevating Behavioral Health Collaborative community initiative on behalf of Bozeman Health to identify and increase collective opportunities to enhance mental health services in southwest Montana; this initiative lives on as the Gallatin Behavioral Health Coalition. Building on experience she gained on her father's ranch in Townsend, she has managed stakeholder relations and stewardship of the health system's nearly 500 acres of agricultural property in the heart of burgeoning Bozeman since 2015. She carefully navigates challenges that arise through the joint use of the property by farming, ranching, recreational, and neighborhood interests.

 

In 2013, she co-produced Senator Baucus’ Economic Development Summit in Butte, a 4,000-attendee business conference featuring eleven keynote presentations including: Google’s Eric Schmidt, FedEx’s Fred Smith, Tesla Motors’ Elon Musk, Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, and Ford’s Alan Mullaly.

 

In 2011, she produced the two-week, 2,500-attendee Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Second Senior Officials Meeting in Big Sky, Montana in conjunction with the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

 

Some of Brianne's current priorities include supporting Four Flyways Outfitters' operations in Cold Bay and St. Paul Island, Alaska. As a licensed waterfowl guide in the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, she recognizes the significance of this 315,000-acre, 492 square mile, wilderness-wetland complex in far southwest Alaska. It is remarkable for its expanses of eel grass vital to the survival of the world’s population of Pacific Black Brant and Emperor Geese and was designated a “Wetland of International Importance” in 1986.

 

She spends her free time enjoying the great outdoors. You’ll find her chasing upland birds and waterfowl hunting year-round. She lives in Bozeman with her Grand River Labrador Retriever, Foxx.