Trisha Kirkland

Trisha is a seasoned Executive leader, Leadership Assessor and Coach and Consulting Psychologist. Her 20+year career has encompassed a range of senior talent and leadership consulting roles, as well as in house executive leadership roles in blue-chip organisations. Most recent roles have included:

– Executive Director Strategic People Initiatives, University of Melbourne
– Senior Principal, Korn Ferry
– Head of Culture, Leadership and Learning – KPMG
– Senior Manager – EY

In these roles, Trisha has supported leaders to accelerate their transition into larger, more complex executive roles. At the enterprise level, she has designed and executed a range of talent and succession innovations and practices to ensure a deep talent bench in support of future growth and strategies. A talent identification and leadership assessment and development expert, she is astute at identifying leadership potential and is sought out for her capacity to apply these insights to support senior decision makers to make critical talent appointments. Working with CEO’s and VP’s, Trisha has been highly sought out for her ability to identify leaders’ unique leadership potential, and de-risk significant decisions in support of external appointments or internal transitions into more senior and complex roles. Organisations such as Telstra, NAB, University of Melbourne, Transurban, CBA have used Trisha’s skills and experience to identify and accelerate their most senior top talent executives of the future, and support excellence in succession planning.

Highly respected for her leadership development expertise, Trisha has supported leaders to build the critical skills, mindsets and experiences required to navigate organisational complexity and achieve their professional and career goals. She has designed and run large scale leadership development programs for large ASX listed organisations, as well as coached a myriad of leaders, from emerging / high potential leaders to new CEO’s.

Trisha brings a unique combination of strategic focus, commercial and business understanding with her deep insight, empathy and delivery focus. She combines her lived experience in senior executive roles with her psychological skills and training as a psychotherapist to coach leaders in how to create systemic personal and organizational change and traverse significant leadership transitions. Identifying and fostering leaders ‘unique potential, grounded in their leadership purpose, Trisha brings together her deep insight from her original training as a psychotherapist to inspire growth and transformation. Building personal insight and self awareness of strengths and derailers, Trisha uses her clinical insights together with her understanding of leadership assessment tools to accelerate targeted growth opportunities.

• Bachelor of Arts in Psychology – University of Melbourne
• Graduate Diploma in Applied Psychology –Swinburne University
• Diplomas in Psychotherapy and Coaching – Cairnmillar Institute
• Registered Psychologist and M.A.Ps.S accredited
• Hogan, MBTI, LSI, KF4D, KFALP, ESCI, MSCEIT, SHL, Mental Health First Aid trainer accredited
• Executive to Leader Institute accredited (Korn Ferry)

An obsessive foodie, Trisha loves to travel the world, learning the different cultures through the lens of their food culture and history. Dogs, playing sport (squash and tennis) as well as hiking the trails of Australia are amongst her other passions. She is equally as happy with the simple pleasures of time spent with loved ones and her extended family.