Sam Garven

Co-Founder & CEO at Hello Canopy

Sam Garven is the Co-Founder and CEO of Hello Canopy, a platform helping employees speak up safely—and helping companies respond with care. With experience at Zip, Kinde, and Grapevine, Sam brings both lived experience and strategic insight into how startups can build cultures of safety. Her work bridges trust, tech, and policy, and she’s on a mission to make ‘speak-up’ cultures something startups grow with—not out of.

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Build it before you need it: Cultural safety that scales

We all want a culture where employees speak up. But what happens when they actually do? In this session, Sam Garven explores how to build systems that make it easier for people to raise concerns—and for leaders to respond well. Drawing on her work at Hello Canopy and as a founding member of Grapevine, Sam shares what helps, what hurts, and what builds trust. You’ll leave with a toolkit for making safety real, not theoretical—even when you’re still building the basics.