2021 CONTE Virtual Meeting Plenary Session Speaker

Elizabeth M. Brattin (Lisa)

Senior Vice President,
Workforce Training, Education and Proficiency
Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO)

Lisa Brattin is senior vice president, Workforce Training, Education and Proficiency, at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) in Atlanta, Georgia.

INPO, sponsored by the commercial nuclear industry, is an independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote the highest levels of safety and reliability - to promote excellence - in the operation of nuclear electric generating plants.

Ms. Brattin was elected senior vice president in November of 2017. She is responsible for Industry Training & Proficiency, including Accreditation Assistance and Support. She is also the executive director for the National Academy of Nuclear Training, which provides leadership courses and seminars and NANTeL e-learning courses for the commercial nuclear power industry and its supplier.

Ms. Brattin began her INPO career in software development and infrastructure management in 1988 after serving as an IT consultant for Barlow Rand in New York City and Mutual and Federal Insurance of South Africa.

After holding a variety of IT management positions, Ms. Brattin served as the manager of NANTeL, the nuclear industry’s e-learning software for computer-based training. She led the NANTeL team through a time of growth as the use of the e-learning portal increased throughout the nuclear industry. Ms. Brattin was promoted to director of Industry Learning and was responsible for the infrastructure and learning services delivered to and shared by INPO with the nuclear power industry.

In November 2014, Ms. Brattin was elected vice president of Talent and Culture. She spearheaded the effort to define and describe INPO’s cultural needs and successfully implemented a plan to transform INPO’s culture. In addition, she was responsible for INPO’s talent strategy, which optimized and shaped the workforce during a time of extensive retirements and industry downsizing.

Ms. Brattin holds an Executive M.B.A. from Emory University and a B.B.A. from Oglethorpe University. She attended the Strategic Human Resources Planning Program at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, the Reactor Technology Course for Utility Executives at

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Delivering Information Services Program at Harvard University.