Trier (tree-air) Bryant is a people-first leadership & inclusion executive, investor, Board member, and previous Air Force Captain. Trier is the founder of TrierBryant.com, a consulting firm that advises organizations on strategies and tactics to improve their workplace culture. She also teamed up with NYT best-seling author Kim Scott to co-found Just Work, a company that provides coaching and workshops to create more collaborative, equitable work environments.

Trier is a strategic executive with more than 17 years of experience across venture capital, biotech, tech, Wall Street, and the military. She has been featured as a leading diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practitioner by publications including USA Today to CNN and Fortune. 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. Trier advises leading companies like Google, Atlassian, Equinox, Airbnb, SoundCloud, SYP, Rockefeller Foundation, and others on their talent and DEI strategies. In addition, she serves on the Audit Committee as a Board Director for Athena SPACs and is on the Board of Campaign Zero, a non-profit committed to ending police violence in America.

Previously, Trier was President and General Partner (GP) of 82VS, the venture creation arm of Alloy Therapeutics, where she supported cutting-edge innovators launching biotech companies to bring drug discoveries to market for underrepresented groups. Prior to 82VS, 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 empowering individuals to achieve their financial goals with customer centric financial solutions. She led teams in six offices across four countries, developing and operationalizing initiatives that optimized employees’ impact and experience.

Before leading People/HR teams, Trier was the Global Head of Revenue, G&A (Corporate Functions), University, and Diversity Recruiting at Twitter, where she was responsible for over 70% of the company’s 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 with teams across 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.

Before Twitter, Trier spent three years as the VP of Global Diversity Talent Acquisition at Goldman Sachs developing and executing the firm’s diversity talent acquisition strategy across 15 functions for executive, experienced, and student hires. Goldman’s cross functional and matrixed approach allowed Trier to work across all Human Capital Management teams, bringing a diversity and inclusion perspective to all strategies. In this role she became a sought after and trusted advisor to the firm's clients seeking to bolster their own D&I and HR strategies. Additionally, Trier served as the Chief of Staff to the Global Head of Talent Acquisition for a year, leading the change management for a global reorganization.

Trier built her professional foundation as an officer in the United States Air Force across seven years of active duty service. She began her military career leading DEI efforts for the Air Force Academy in Colorado then transferred to Illinois as a network engineer leading teams responsible for the audit, compliance, and network security of Air Force’s global infrastructure. As a network engineer, Trier led teams to various combat deployment locations every six months to secure networks supporting Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Trier also deployed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as the Computer Network Defense Chief, and Deputy Cyber Commander responsible for analyzing unauthorized cyber activity in support of the detainee mission. Prior to leaving the military, the Pentagon requested Trier by name to return to the Air Force Academy and spearhead DEI and talent development initiatives for the Air Force Academy, Air Force, and the Department of Defense (DoD).

Trier earned a B.S. in Systems Engineering with a minor in Spanish and Leadership from the United States Air Force Academy where she played Division I volleyball. She was born in Trier, Germany and lived across Europe with her family throughout primary school. In middle school, she spent a year living in Antigua, Guatemala but calls Denver, Colorado home where she completed high school followed by college in Colorado Springs. Trier enjoys spending time with her close knit family who taught her to live by the family motto "...good enough isn't."