Systems and methods configured to execute branching automation schemes in a collaboration environment are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment; manage automation records of the collaboration environment, the automation records defining trigger events, branching criteria, and sets of automated actions to carry out in the collaboration environment in response to occurrence of the trigger events and satisfaction of individual ones of the branching criteria; responsive to the detection of the occurrence of individual trigger events and the satisfaction of the individual ones of the branching criteria, effectuate individual ones of the sets of automated actions within the collaboration environment, and/or perform other operations.