About Me

For more than two decades, Trisha Mason Parsad has partnered with leaders, teams, and organizations to help people grow, navigate complexity, strengthen relationships, and achieve meaningful results. As a leadership and organization development consultant, executive coach, facilitator, and thought partner, she is known for creating environments where people feel safe enough to engage honestly, think differently, and move forward with greater clarity and intention. Trisha’s approach is both people-centered and outcome-focused. She believes people and performance are not competing priorities—and that sustainable results are more likely when people feel valued, engaged, clear about what matters, and equipped to contribute at their highest level. Her work combines practical structure with meaningful dialogue, using assessments, inquiry, organizational data, and other diagnostic tools when they help illuminate what is happening, while creating space for reflection, collective sensemaking, and new possibilities to emerge.

Throughout her career, Trisha has held senior roles in leadership coaching and development and has partnered with leaders across healthcare, professional services, financial services, utilities, entertainment, higher education, media, advertising, hospitality, engineering, environmental consulting, and nonprofit organizations. She has also led TMP Leadership Consulting for more than two decades, building long-standing relationships with clients who return to her for executive coaching, leadership and team development, group coaching, transformational retreats, facilitation, and support navigating organizational change.

At the heart of Trisha’s work is a simple belief: the wisdom is often already in the room. Her role is not to arrive with all the answers, but to ask thoughtful questions, listen deeply, recognize patterns, bring the right amount of structure, and help leaders and teams discover what their situation requires. Whether working one-on-one with an executive, facilitating a leadership team, or helping an organization navigate disruption, she creates the conditions for greater awareness, connection, ownership, and action.

Trisha is a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach and is certified in a range of leadership and development assessments and methodologies, including MBTI, DiSC, EQ-i 2.0 Emotional Intelligence, StandOut, Situational Leadership II, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Courageous Conversations, and ATD’s 5D approach to learning consulting. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from UCLA and a Master of Arts in Organization Development and Leadership from Fielding Graduate University, further deepening the systems, change, and human-centered perspectives that inform her practice.

Beyond her work, Trisha values curiosity, meaningful relationships, and experiencing the world beyond the workplace. She enjoys traveling and exploring new places, hiking, beach days, mentoring others, spending time with family and friends, and remaining curious about people, cultures, and life.

Certifications

Over the years, Trisha has attained well-renowned psychological assessment certifications, as well as prominent leadership development programs by thought leaders in the industry.

MBTI

Wiley's MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) certification program is designed to equip professionals with the skills to administer and interpret the MBTI assessment, a widely used personality tool. The certification provides an in-depth understanding of personality types based on Carl Jung’s theory of psychological types, focusing on areas like communication, team dynamics, and leadership development. Certified practitioners can help individuals and teams leverage their personality preferences for personal growth, improved collaboration, and workplace performance.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

FranklinCovey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People certification is based on Stephen R. Covey’s renowned personal and leadership development framework. The program teaches participants how to apply the seven habits—such as being proactive, beginning with the end in mind, and seeking to understand before being understood—to improve personal effectiveness, leadership, and teamwork. The certification equips individuals to lead workshops or coaching sessions, helping others develop key habits that foster responsibility, productivity, and sustained personal and professional growth.

DiSC

Wiley's DiSC is a personality assessment tool designed to help individuals and teams improve communication, collaboration, and productivity. Based on the DiSC model, it categorizes individuals into four primary behavioral styles: Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, and Conscientiousness. By understanding these styles, participants can better adapt their communication and work strategies to enhance workplace relationships and performance.

Situational Leadership II

Ken Blanchard's Situational Leadership® II (SLII®) certification equips leaders with the skills to adapt their leadership style based on the needs of their team members in various situations. The model emphasizes flexibility by teaching leaders to diagnose an employee's development level on a task and then apply the appropriate leadership style—ranging from directing to delegating. This approach enhances communication, development, and performance by aligning leadership behavior with an individual’s specific needs in real-time.

Professional Coach

The Co-Active Training Institute (CTI) coaching certification is a globally recognized program that focuses on a holistic, transformative approach to coaching. It emphasizes the "Co-Active" model, which integrates being and doing, helping clients achieve greater balance, fulfillment, and effective action in their personal and professional lives. The certification equips coaches with practical skills, a deep understanding of human potential, and the ability to facilitate meaningful, lasting change.

StandOut by ADP

StandOut by ADT is a strengths-based assessment and development tool that helps individuals identify their key strengths in the workplace. Based on the work of Marcus Buckingham, it provides personalized insights and strategies to help people leverage their strengths to perform at their best, fostering engagement and growth in their roles.

EQI 2.0

The EQ-i 2.0 certification, offered by MHS, trains professionals to administer and interpret the Emotional Quotient Inventory (EQ-i 2.0), one of the most widely used emotional intelligence assessments. The certification provides an in-depth understanding of emotional intelligence (EI) and its impact on personal and professional success. Practitioners gain the skills to help individuals and teams enhance self-awareness, emotional regulation, interpersonal relationships, and decision-making by leveraging insights from the EQ-i 2.0 model.