Trisha is a trauma-informed sociologist, coach, and labour market futurist who believes that everyone deserves a fulfilling career and work-life in engaging workplaces. 

Working in the UK, Trisha presented to the UN on the changing nature of the labour force to the Royal Statistical Society, and how to harmonize data collection in social capital to the UN. She participated in international working groups including Decent Work, Gender Mainstreaming, and Collective Bargaining and Trade Unionization in Geneva at the International Labour Statisticians Conference. 

Returning to Canada, she developed on-the-ground policy to support First Nations and municipalities rebuild after disasters, with particular attention to supporting individuals and communities to restore social wellbeing after flood and fire related evacuations. In addition, she was the Secretary for multiple strategic decision-making tables provincially and federally, worked on several pieces of legislation, and developed two policy teams from the ground up to deliver new ministry objectives. Before leaving government, she also served as a representative at the  Regional Platform of the Americas in Disaster Risk Reduction.

Her personal career–encompassing everything from expansive, engaging leadership to toxic workplaces led through fear and manipulation–informs how she supports people, organizations and communities in a dignified, objectives-focused way. 

Believing work can be a tool for transformation, she undertook training in change management and became a trauma-informed certified coach. She now uses these tools to create frameworks for workplace safety, empower transformation, and create a sustainable future for all of us.

As a Metis woman with complex post-traumatic stress disorder and a successful career, Trisha knows what we do affects all our relations, we are better in community, and a good future is possible for all of us through committed service doing good work. 
 
Area of Expertise:
Indigenous Systems and Worldview; Labour market dynamics; Healthy (trauma-informed) leadership and organizations; Decolonization and Indigenization; Emergency Management and Disaster Risk Reduction; Strategic policy.