Trisha Stiles

Founder & Executive Director

Trisha Stiles is a Human Resources Executive with over 25 years of HR experience. She has lead HR organizations and teams across Technology, Entertainment, Sports, News, Digital Medial, Gaming, Banking and Finance, Pharmaceuticals, Private Equity and Education. Trisha has worked in public, private and non-profit organizations helping to create, scale and optimize HR strategy.

Trisha has held senior roles across fortune 500 companies such as: CHRO for Brightcove. VP of Employee Success at Salesforce/Tableau, SVP of HR for CBS Interactive and other strategic roles at NBC Universal/General Electric. She is a graduate of the prestigious GE HR Leadership Program and has a Blackbelt in Six Sigma. 

She is the Founder of LEAPS for Peace, a nonprofit 501C3 focused on providing leadership training and development for other non-profits and or their constituents. LEAPS’s focus is on leadership development for early career professionals and youths in the US and in developing countries. Trisha is also a mentor, donor and pro-bono HR consultant for SHE-CAN. They are an International NGO that supports women from post conflict countries (Rwanda, Liberia, Cambodia and Guatemala) to attend college in the US and develop their leadership skills to return home to be leaders in their home nations.

Trisha holds a BA in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MA in Organizational Psychology, with a focus on Leadership and Change Management, from Teacher’s College, Columbia University. She is currently working on completing her second master’s in international Affairs-Business and Finance from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. She is an ICF certified Executive and Leadership Coach.

Trisha has spent extensive time working, traveling and volunteering in Europe, Asia, SE Asia, the Middle East, Africa and South America. She has received several awards for her HR work over the years, but she is most proud of winning an Emmy for her HR expertise and support during the San Diego Wildfires in 2007.