Happy Companies has announced the appointment of Loren Kutsko as chief growth officer.  In this role, Kutsko will lead business and partner development, advising companies on improving employee experience, culture, and training initiatives for managers and leaders. 

Kutsko will also lead Companies’ partnership program to forge relationships with leading coaches, consultants, and learning and development companies focused on helping their clients improve employee experience and connectivity across their organizations. 

Kutsko brings over two decades of experience to the Happy Companies team. With previous senior leadership roles straddling technology, global humanitarian assistance, and consulting, his expertise will be an invaluable asset to Happy Companies’ partners and customers alike. The new SaaS-based Happy solution was created specifically to help leaders, HR managers and employees spark workplace culture improvement and unlock the potential of teams.

“Loren is a bit of a unicorn with a deep bench of expertise in helping organisations with people development at scale. He’s also a technology leader, and understands the intersection between real humans and innovation in the people technology space.,” said James Lawrence, Happy Co-founder and CEO. 

“I’m excited to join the Happy team to advance the mission of transforming the world of work,” said Kutsko. “Today’s workplace is getting more complex – and innovative solutions for coaching, learning and leadership development have never been more important. I look forward to working closely with our partners and customers to help them deploy solutions at scale that will improve job satisfaction, retention and team effectiveness.”