About Trisha McOrmond
Mission
Work is medicine
People are safe, empowering them to be creative contributors in their communities through their work.
Vision
Work is a beneficial contributor to sustainable culture.
People are empowered to create a fulfilling career that meets their needs. People, families, communities, and business work together to create a healthy culture.
We navigate systemic change for the benefit and prosperity of people through values-based, relational leadership.
Meet Trisha McOrmond
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 major events. She also focused efforts on supporting individuals and communities to recover 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 believes what we do affects all our relations, we are better in community, and a good future is possible through committed service doing good work.
Areas of Expertise
Career
Transformation
Labour Market
Dynamics
Trauma-Informed Organizations
Complex Trauma as a Gateway
Decolonization and Metis Culture and Traditions
Emergency
Management
Disaster Risk
Reduction
Community
Restoration
Inspiration
Our Work Is Medicine.
For the liberation of inspired work to create a community and culture where healing, balance, and sustainability are the cornerstones of success. Where we are excited about how our work connects us to each other and the world for the benefit of all beings.
Papers & Panels
Climobilize Conferfence
On January 24, 2024 at the Climobilize conference, Trisha spoke about why climate emergency is ineffective framing and how we can address this new reality collectively.
Canadian Risk and Hazard Network
Trisha gave the inaugural Ron Kuban Keynote at the Canadian Risk and Hazard Network October 2015, on her experience working on the 2013 Southern Alberta Flood.
HazNet
Decision-mamking in emergency management and public safety in Alberta – Bigger, Better, Faster Decisions … Through Committee
UN: Paris Group Discussions
Setpember 4-5, 2003
Working TIme Arrangements
UN: UK Representative
17th International Conference of Labour Statisticians, November 2003
International labour organization
UN: Siena Group
Finland, February 2005
Conceptualising and defining social capital
Land Acknowledgement
Trisha lives and works in amiskwaciwaskhikan (Edmonton), traditional homeland of the Metis. Metis Iskwew, she recognizes the stewardship and love for this land by all our relations since before we remember and for as long as Creator wills it. As Irish Catholic settler, she honours all people who tend the land where they live and the love that grows in stewardship. She is grateful for all the gifts of our Mother, knowing the land is our medicine and our pantry. She recognizes and accepts the obligations of stewardship for our descendants to have a dignified future.