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Quick facts
about Trier
Founder, Pathfinder
VC Investor as a General Partner
Co-Founder & previous CEO, Just Work (rebranded as Radical Respect)
Public Board Director (Audit Committee)
Former Chief People/HR Officer
Angel Investor
Led teams across biotech, space, tech, financial services, and military
DEI Strategist
Disabled Combat Veteran
Served as active duty officer in the Air Force for seven years
United States Air Force Academy Graduate
Member Affiliations
Featured with CNN, Forbes, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Time, USA Today, Today Show, Harvard Business Review
Trier’s Professional Journey
Trier (tree-air) Bryant is a people-first leadership & inclusion executive, investor, Board member, and previous United States Air Force Captain. Trier is the founder of Pathfinder, a consulting firm that advises organizations on people-centric solutions to drive business performance. She also teamed up with NYT best-selling author Kim Scott to co-found Just Work, rebranded as Radical Respect, a company that provides coaching and workshops to create more collaborative, equitable work environments.
Trier is a strategic executive with more than 18 years of experience across 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. 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 served as President and General Partner (GP) of 82VS, the venture creation arm of Alloy Therapeutics, where she supported cutting-edge innovators launching companies to bring drug discoveries to market. Before joining Alloy, Trier was the Chief People Officer (CPO) at Astra, an aerospace company developing low-orbit rockets to launch a new generation of services aimed at connecting and improving life on Earth. During her tenure at Astra, she navigated the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, leading an organization where 80% of employees worked on-site to fulfill government contracts in support of national security. Additionally, Trier played a pivotal role in guiding the company through a SPAC acquisition, culminating in a successful public offering. 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 full 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 and partnered with teams 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. Prior to pivoting into Tech with her Twitter role, 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 Communications 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 at Colorado Academy followed by college in Colorado Springs. Trier enjoys spending time with her family (particularly her 20 nieces and nephews), embarking on international adventures to discover the world's best beaches, savoring the finest Italian cuisine outside of Italy, and indulging in the most authentic tacos outside of Mexico.
