- About Elizabeth Branner, SHRM-SCP
Elizabeth Branner (SHRM-SCP), our Vice President for Employee Happiness, is fluent in Spanish. Simply knowing more than one language is very helpful for her job, not because we have that many employees who speak Spanish, but because for many people the concept of Happiness is a foreign language. She is the linguistic bridge that allows employees to understand how they can be happy.
After an early career in a series of ever-larger law firms with a series of ever-more-impressive job titles, Elizabeth moved over to being the executive director of a DC nonprofit and then to leading Human Resources at a large NGO. Throughout her various careers and job titles, she pursued the idea of employees’ happiness. Unfortunately most law firms are not known for creating happiness in their employees, and her later jobs were not focused specifically on happiness, so her new cynosure has been very fulfilling for her.
Prior to her current role, she was briefly our Employee Lifecycle Director, where she was able to see how the Happiness sausage is made at TCG (using only farm-raised, free-range, organic, vegan Happiness, of course). She now takes great joy in helping TCGers establish and thrive in their career paths, and detests phrases like “maximizing human capital resources.”
Elizabeth has an MBA from The Citadel, which oddly does not have a (real) fortress on its (current) grounds.
In her spare time, Elizabeth enjoys being a classical pianist, excising weeds, chasing Milo (her cat), and learning to play the autoharp, which is apparently not an automatic harp but rather an esoteric musical instrument.
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