Elisa Garn is the SVP of Talent Management & Sustainability at Blood Cancer United (formerly The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society). A seasoned senior HR leader with 20+ years transforming HR across industries, she leads enterprise sustainability, workforce planning and development, talent acquisition, internal mobility, and learning—designing skills-first, human- centric systems that make talent strategy clear, actionable, and agile.
Renowned for strategic insight and values-aligned employee experience design, she is a respected thought leader known for sparking progressive conversations that challenge traditional HR thinking. Beyond HR, she founded and bootstrapped an HR tech company; led brand strategy for Utah’s largest employee insurance broker, and built a personal brand consulting agency. Her work advances scalable people strategies and a better human experience at work.



