Gianna Driver

Current role at One Workplace

One Workplace announced on April 16, 2026 that Gianna Driver had joined as Chief People Officer to lead its people strategy. The company says she brings more than 20 years of people-leadership experience, and that she was a One Workplace client more than a decade ago, while she worked at Talend.^[1]

One Workplace describes itself as a family-owned company founded in 1925 that combines construction, technology, furniture, services and hospitality to create workplace environments. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with other offices in San Francisco, Monterey Bay, Emeryville, Sacramento, Seattle and Spokane. The company does not publish headcount or revenue on that page.^[1]

Career path

The announcement says Driver most recently served as Chief People Officer at OpenTable and previously held senior roles at Lattice and Exabeam. People Matters, in a profile written while she was at Exabeam, lists senior HR leadership roles at Talend, Actian, Aristocrat, Playstudios and BlueVine, and says she first moved into HR at the online retailer Balsam Brands, where she rose to Vice President of People.^[1][2]

An Allvoices podcast listing describes her as Chief People Officer at BlueVine, a fintech company serving small businesses, with more than 15 years of executive experience at private, public and global companies as of that listing.^[3]

Exabeam and Lattice

People Matters says she joined the cybersecurity company Exabeam in 2021, in the middle of the pandemic. UNLEASH reports that she was chief human resources officer there when Exabeam went through a merger.^[2][4]

Driver began as Lattice's Chief People Officer on August 12, 2024, succeeding Cara Brennan Allamano. She had been a longtime Lattice customer, had implemented its platform at several earlier employers, and had served on its CPO Council since the group formed in August 2023. UNLEASH describes her as Lattice's third C-suite appointment of 2024, alongside CEO Sarah Franklin and a new chief communications officer.^[4]

At the time, Lattice had drawn criticism from the HR community over AI features that treated AI as team members, and reportedly changed course. Driver said she would begin with a listening tour, work with product teams on AI-powered tools and gather feedback from customers, and described her approach as built on curiosity, listening, empathy and communication.^[4]

Background and philosophy

People Matters says she is the daughter of a mother who immigrated from the Philippines and later escaped an abusive marriage, and that the two found refuge in a women's shelter in Texas. It reports that she studied at Wharton on a full scholarship, and that before HR she founded Gianna Fair Trade, an e-commerce company supporting women artisans in developing countries.^[2]

Her stated view is that diversity and inclusion drive business growth and make workplaces more humane, and that belonging means people feel valued and able to connect. HR Executive named her among its Top 100 HR Tech Influencers, according to People Matters. One Workplace adds that she sits on the board of Project PEARLS, a nonprofit supporting underserved communities in the Philippines.^[1][2]

Employee experience as an operating discipline

An Allvoices episode summary on holistic employee experience frames experience as an operating discipline rather than an internal communications campaign, covering recruitment through departure. The summary and statistics were written by the site and may not reflect her exact words, so they are cited only as the show's framing.^[3]

Why she matters

Driver has led people functions at companies across security, SaaS, fintech, consumer marketplaces and now a workplace-design firm. Her move from running people strategy at HR-software maker Lattice to a business that designs physical workplaces puts her at the intersection of how people work and where they do it.^[1][4]

On The Executive List

Gianna Driver is ranked No. 59 on The Executive List (October 2026) in the Chief Human Resources Officers discipline. The ranking reflects The Executive Review's own editorial Trending Score; it is not an outside award, and placement on the list is never sold. View the October 2026 edition.