Rachel Happe

Rachel Happe is the Founder of The Community Roundtable, a firm that collaborates with clients to develop proven, practical strategies for better engagement. Clients rely on TheCR’s models, research, expertise, and community of practice to advance engagement, collaboration, culture change, and innovation goals. Clients including AMEX, City Year, Hilti, AAAS, Microsoft, EA, Ciena, the Canadian Medical Association, and the World Bank Group benefit from Rachel’s ability to make sense of abstract trends and her ability to see the implications that technical and operational decisions can have on people and processes. Rachel has over twenty-five years of experience working with emerging technologies, including enterprise social networking, eCommerce, and enterprise innovation management software. Rachel has served as a product executive at Mzinga, Bitpass, & IDe, and as IDC’s first analyst covering social technologies. She started her career as a business analyst at PRTM. She has written for Information Week and Harvard Business Review and serves as the Communications Chair on the Mount Holyoke College Alumnae Association’s board of directors.