Belonging & Leadership

In today's episode we will be talking to Trier Bryant about following and leadership. You can find her bio in the description and on our website. Please stay tuned after the guest discussion for skill highlights. www.AmplifyVoices.io About our guest: Trier Bryant is currently Co-Founder and CEO of Just Work LLC. She co-founded this company with Kim Scott, NYT best selling author of Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and Just Work: Get *t Done Fast and Fair, to help organizations and individuals create more equitable workplaces. Trier is a strategic executive with distinctive Tech, Wall Street, and military experience spanning over 15 years. She has been featured as an influential diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practitioner by several publications and outlets from USA Today to CNN and SXSW. Trier has an unwavering commitment to create more equitable, inclusive, and thriving workplaces that produce prosperous companies. The depth of her work ranges from recruiting, talent development, performance management, compensation, communications, and brand strategy. Additionally, Trier advises leading companies like Atlassian, Equinox, Airbnb, SoundCloud, Alto, Rockefeller Foundation, and others on their talent and DEI strategies. Most recently, Trier was the first Chief People Officer (CPO) at Astra, an aerospace company building low orbital rockets to launch a new generation of services to connect and improve life on earth. She was also the VP of People and Workplace Experience at SigFig, a global FinTech company striving to empower everyone to achieve their financial goals with customer centric financial solutions. She led teams in six offices across four countries developing and operationalizing initiatives that optimize employees’ impact and experience. Prior to leading full People/HR teams, Trier was the Global Head of Revenue, G&A (Corporate Functions), University, and Diversity Recruiting at Twitter responsible for over 70% of hires. As a member of Twitter’s People Leadership Team, Trier led multiple initiatives across various HR disciplines including compensation, L&D, mobility, and inclusion. In addition to her day-to-day Talent Acquisition responsibilities, she partnered across various teams on both Engineering, Product, Design, and Revenue (Sales & Partnerships) to provide input on product functionality and client deliverables--most notably the multi-million dollar Black Panther Twitter activation and the Twitter Safety Council to combat abuse on the platform.

We kicked off our first podcast episode of Unlikely this week with Pete Carroll. We talked about professional vulnerability, generosity in leadership, along with other burning topics. This conversation is filled with so many “schooling life” takeaways on how to navigate heartbreaks, disappointments, and staying true to yourself through it all. There’s something for everyone in this episode. Check out the key lessons below from this week’s podcast!

Unlikely is an entertaining-diverse-educational podcast for leadership soft skills and expertise that will develop you as much as it inspires you. I will be talking about leadership with every type of professional person you can imagine and then I will distill those leadership lessons enabling you to start practicing them that day. This is a podcast for businesses, startups, entrepreneurs, Influencers, college students stepping into a career or anyone who wants to take hold of what they are up to and confidently-effectively manage and lead.