About Us

Who We Are

Building Bridges Global LLC is a woman- and veteran-owned small business designing emotionally intelligent, neuroscience-informed learning experiences for professionals working across language, culture, and connection.

We blend reflection, behavioral science, and AI-aligned technology to restore human presence in a rapidly accelerating world. Our platforms, trainings, and tools help interpreters, educators, leaders, and community builders move from performance into presence—because we believe communication should be a shared act of humanity, not just a transactional exchange.

Mission and Vision

Mission Statement: We create emotionally intelligent systems that restore energy, elevate equity, and reclaim the human heart of communication. Through culturally grounded design, reflective practice, and technology that supports, not replaces, human connection, we help individuals and organizations grow with courage, care, and clarity.

Vision Statement: To shape a world where communication is not a transaction, but a relationship. A world where interpreters, educators, and everyday leaders show up fully, hold space for difference, and co-create meaning across language, culture, and lived experience.

Our Core Values

Presence Over Performance
We value authenticity over polish, grounded presence over perfection.
Connection is the Core
We design for trust, empathy, and real human connection, not just transactional exchange.
Communication is Co-Creation
Meaning is built together. Everybody matters.
Technology Should Serve Humanity
We use AI, neuroscience, and behavioral science to support, not replace, the human heart of communication.
Culture is Context
Language is never neutral. We lead with cultural humility, lived experience, and deep respect for difference.
Reflection Creates Impact
Insight becomes action. Action becomes transformation.

What We Do

We design reflective ecosystems and emotionally intelligent learning experiences through:

AI-Powered Tools: Designed to support reflection, learning, connection, and decision-making.
CEU-Eligible Workshops and Trainings: Focused on emotional intelligence, cultural fluency, and self-awareness across high-emotion professions.
Automation Systems for Interpreters and Organizations: We aim to reduce paperwork, burnout, and barriers to access.
Strategic Consulting and Leadership Coaching: With a focus on emotional intelligence, equity-centered leadership, and communication strategy.

Why We Exist

The Challenge:

In a world accelerating through automation and AI, human connection is becoming harder to maintain. Miscommunication and burnout are rising. Interpreters and high-emotion professionals often carry invisible emotional labor without the tools or space to process it.

We are seeing more visibility, but not always more alignment. More access, but not always more presence.

Our Solution:

We create systems that invite reflection, growth, and resilience. Our work helps people recognize the parts of themselves that hold them back, navigate cultural and emotional complexity with grace, and step into deeper leadership. This isn’t just about making AI smarter. It’s about making humanity braver, more present, and more whole.

Our Impact

We’ve supported hundreds of professionals and teams across sectors, including interpreters, educators, nonprofit leaders, and healthcare professionals, through:

CEU-accredited workshops rooted in EQ, reflection, and trauma-informed care
Custom training experiences for culturally diverse teams navigating conflict and growth
Tools that reduce burnout, improve retention, and support ethical decision-making
Pilot partnerships measuring real-world impact across interpreter education and organizational development

Our Story

Building Bridges Global was founded by Sarah Wheeler, a Coda, interpreter, and educator with master’s degrees in both psychology and interpreting pedagogy. As the oldest of six siblings, a veteran of the U.S. military, and the daughter of Deaf parents, Sarah has spent her life navigating high-stakes environments where communication, leadership, and emotional resilience aren’t optional, they’re everything.

She and her husband both served in the military, and that shared experience informs how she sees systems: their pressure points, their blind spots, and their potential for transformation. Her mother—EQ-i certified and deeply emotionally attuned, modeled what it looks like to lead with both heart and clarity. Her father taught her that “everything is fixable,” a belief she carries into every workshop, every system, every partnership.

That mix of intergenerational wisdom, field-tested resilience, and cross-cultural fluency shaped a vision for something more:

A world where we don’t just teach communication, we live it.
A world where emotional intelligence isn’t extra, it’s essential.

Building Bridges Global creates reflective tools, emotionally intelligent learning systems, and community-building experiences that restore energy, deepen connection, and elevate equity.

This isn’t just a business.
It’s a movement to reclaim the human core of how we connect, and who we become in the process.

Call-to-Action

If you're ready to move from reaction to reflection,
From performance to presence,
From burnout to brave leadership.

We’re building tools, trainings, and communities for you.

Explore our platforms. Join a workshop. Partner with us.
Because we don’t just need better communication.
We need tools that make us better, together.