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Ash Panjwani
Ash Panjwani
Founder & Managing Director

Work feels better when the system works. wrkhappy was founded on that belief: at most scaling companies, great leadership is a lottery. wrkhappy makes it the standard.

Some of my earliest leadership lessons came from being an immigrant kid. At seven, I guided my family from Karachi to Dallas... the only one who spoke English, broken as it was. At ten, I helped my parents negotiate the price of a furniture set. At thirteen, I was helping my dad build his business. I learned to navigate without a map and see past the surface of a story. Leadership has always felt less like a skill I studied and more like a muscle I've carried with me.

I spent 13+ years putting that muscle to work, building leadership infrastructure inside companies scaling from 1,000 to 20,000+ employees... Twilio, VMware, OneTrust, Procore... through hypergrowth, acquisitions, and IPO prep. I sat in the calibration rooms and built the leadership blueprints, defining what great looked like and installing the systems that held leaders to it.

wrkhappy exists because I kept seeing the same thing at every stage: companies that knew leadership mattered but had never defined what great looked like, let alone built the system to make it real. So that's what I build now... a clear, shared definition of what good looks like, so leadership doesn't depend on who happens to be in the room.

Austin, TX
Companies I've supported
Procore Twilio OneTrust VMware
Extended Team

I don't work alone.

wrkhappy works alongside a tight and trusted network of senior operators with deep expertise.

Brendan Streiff
Brendan Streiff
AI & Workforce Transformation
Brendan Streiff
AI & Workforce Transformation

Brendan has spent 16 years building the talent strategies that scale alongside the business. Most recently he led work at Expedia helping technology executives reshape their organizations around AI, and before that he ran talent strategy and organizational effectiveness across HomeAway, Expedia, and Coinbase through periods of rapid growth and change.

His range covers organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, talent strategy, and AI workforce transformation. He's a systems thinker who works close to the business, focused on the levers that actually move performance.

Arin Bryan
Arin Bryan
Org Strategy & Executive Coaching
Arin Bryan
Org Strategy & Executive Coaching

Arin has spent 14+ years building the strategies, programs, and cultures that move organizations forward through growth, acquisition, and significant change. She's held senior People leadership roles at Expedia Group, Redfin, and Vrbo, leading talent development, organizational design, and performance strategy across thousands of employees globally.

She partners with CEOs and executive teams to translate business strategy into people strategy, with a particular strength in the work that comes with reorgs and stage changes. She's also an ICF-certified executive coach and high-impact facilitator.

Marc McCann
Marc McCann
Leadership Development at Scale
Marc McCann
Leadership Development at Scale

Marc has spent 14 years building leadership systems inside fast-moving organizations where trust, clarity, and execution drive results. He's launched and scaled global leadership programs at YETI and Homeward, trained more than 5,000 leaders across markets, and helped teams keep their footing through growth, scale, and change.

He translates complex people problems into practical leadership behaviors, and creates the conditions teams need to surface hard truths rather than working around them.

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