Lead with Purpose. Achieve the Extraordinary.
As a high-performing leader, you’re driven to create meaningful impact—in
your work, your life, and the lives of those around you. If you’re ready to
generate game-changing insights, I’m here to help. Welcome to Exceptional Company.
Lead with Purpose. Achieve the Extraordinary.
As a high-performing leader, you’re driven to create meaningful impact—in your work, your life, and the lives of those around you. If you’re ready to generate game-changing insights, I’m here to help. Welcome to Exceptional Company.
ABOUT TRIS
Unlocking Potential, Achieving Growth
Hi, I’m Tris Oakley. For over 25 years, whether partnering with clients or colleagues, I’ve been deeply invested in helping leaders unlock their full potential and achieve transformative growth. From working with Fortune 500 executives as a management consultant to leading Strategy and Insights at Google, I’ve dedicated myself to helping fellow leaders articulate bold visions, overcome complex challenges, and build the confidence to achieve extraordinary results.
What I Offer
Actionable insights specific to you
I partner with leaders who excel at driving performance and developing people to bring that same focused investment to their own growth and development.
Envision What’s Possible
Explore what’s available to you and what it would mean to make it happen
Realign with your values
Clarify what drives you to align your leadership to what truly matters now
Navigate with Agility
Develop the tools and mindset to thrive in complexity and change
Testimonials
Tris asked the right probing questions to have me identify and articulate the purpose and outcome I was seeking for myself and for my clients. She helped break down my approach in a way I hadn't considered before.
Tris asked the right probing questions to have me identify and articulate the purpose and outcome I was seeking for myself and for my clients. She helped break down my approach in a way I hadn't considered before.
Listened. Created a safe space and asked great questions that helped me rethink my team’s approach and how to lead with empathy. Honed in very quickly on my needs and where I wanted to improve. Used real-life examples to relate and better understand my situation .
Listened. Created a safe space and asked great questions that helped me rethink my team’s approach and how to lead with empathy. Honed in very quickly on my needs and where I wanted to improve. Used real-life examples to relate and better understand my situation.
We had a complex agenda to pull off with multiple C-Suite and Directors on the call. Tris instantly saw the opportunity and immediately helped us organize the flow. It was impressive how she completely understood our mission, asking the right questions to help surface and reposition the true opportunity.
We had a complex agenda to pull off with multiple C-Suite and Directors on the call. Tris instantly saw the opportunity and immediately helped us organize the flow. It was impressive how she completely understood our mission, asking the right questions to help surface and reposition the true opportunity.
Tris helped break down specific goals for each of our key stakeholders. She ensured we had thought through and clearly defined the goals and next steps we were seeking, coaching us on how to elevate and signal both from our first communication.
Tris helped break down specific goals for each of our key stakeholders. She ensured we had thought through and clearly defined the goals and next steps we were seeking, coaching us on how to elevate and signal both from our first communication.
Tris has very strong intuition and a warm, outwardly caring style. These traits helped her say just the right thing, make astute observations, and ask the perfect probing questions during our sessions. I had many surprise revelations during my coaching experience with her, and each one helped build my confidence in my decision-making. I strongly recommend working with Tris if you’re stuck or if you’re about to embark on a new endeavor. She’ll help you to uncover more effective ways of thinking about your path forward .
Merative
Partner & Product Marketing Leader
Tris has very strong intuition and a warm, outwardly caring style. These traits helped her say just the right thing, make astute observations, and ask the perfect probing questions during our sessions. I had many surprise revelations during my coaching experience with her, and each one helped build my confidence in my decision-making. I strongly recommend working with Tris if you’re stuck or if you’re about to embark on a new endeavor. She’ll help you to uncover more effective ways of thinking about your path forward.
Merative
Partner & Product Marketing Leader
Tris helped me step back and step into the mindset of my leadership team to truly zero in on what they would care about. She kept upleveling the conversation, moving me away from the details, which gave me a new perspective about what my actual goals should be.
Tris helped me step back and step into the mindset of my leadership team to truly zero in on what they would care about. She kept upleveling the conversation, moving me away from the details, which gave me a new perspective about what my actual goals should be.
Allowed time for brainstorming, built off of my ideas, did a role play so I could try it out in real time, provided feedback on the role play. Boosted my overall confidence. I was in a bad mood going in and I left feeling really good personally and professionally.
Allowed time for brainstorming, built off of my ideas, did a role play so I could try it out in real time, provided feedback on the role play. Boosted my overall confidence. I was in a bad mood going in and I left feeling really good personally and professionally.
Tris takes the time to understand your lived experience, honor its place in your current decisions and support you in finding your way into your next chapter. Tris helped me break old habits and find the truth in what I have to offer the world through my career. Guiding me to recognize my true values and make choices to bring alignment to my work, Tris has transformed the direction of my career.
SVP, Global Retail Partnerships, dentsu
Tris takes the time to understand your lived experience, honor its place in your current decisions and support you in finding your way into your next chapter. Tris helped me break old habits and find the truth in what I have to offer the world through my career. Guiding me to recognize my true values and make choices to bring alignment to my work, Tris has transformed the direction of my career.
SVP, Global Retail Partnerships, dentsu
Tris very respectfully challenged me on some of the fundamental assumptions I was making. I strongly believe this will help my presentations land better. She helped me unlock an approach and a level of confidence that will allow me to align with and get buy-in from my clients in 1 session instead of 2.
Tris very respectfully challenged me on some of the fundamental assumptions I was making. I strongly believe this will help my presentations land better. She helped me unlock an approach and a level of confidence that will allow me to align with and get buy-in from my clients in 1 session instead of 2.
Tris is a brilliant coach. Her listening skills are second to none and her ability to help me see a path through the woods was invaluable to me. I would highly recommend spending time with Tris!
Crito Capital LLC
Managing Director, Placement Agent
Tris is a brilliant coach. Her listening skills are second to none and her ability to help me see a path through the woods was invaluable to me. I would highly recommend spending time with Tris!
Crito Capital LLC
Managing Director, Placement Agent
Elevate Your Leadership. Empower Your Legacy
My approach is shaped by decades of cross-industry experience, deep curiosity and the ability to simplify complex ideas into actionable steps. I help leaders and teams create and turn bold visions into meaningful results.
More than business strategy—my work is about helping create alignment between personal growth, professional impact, and the legacy you want to leave. Together, we’ll unlock your potential to thrive in every area of your life and work.
LATEST NEWS
Blog
Expert insights and strategies to help you lead confidently, overcome challenges, and create lasting impact.
What’s on Your Scorecard?
What if our most important performance metrics weren't the ones in our annual plans? In my...
Leading with Emotional Currency: The Hidden Language of Great Teams
I’ve been thinking a lot this year about emotional currencies and what’s possible when leaders...
On Decisions You’ll Never Regret
A colleague from my past life in corporate used to love dropping this little nugget of wisdom:...
Schedule a Chemistry Session
Let’s explore what’s possible
Trust and connection are key to building a personalized and effective coaching relationship. Schedule a no-obligation Chemistry Session to talk through your goals and how we’ll partner to bring them to life.