ABOUT
You were never taught the human side of work. I teach it.
Hi, I'm Trina May. I teach the human skills that careers actually run on, the ones no one ever sat you down to explain.
MY STORY
It was never about being the smartest person in the room.
Across a career inside agency and corporate work, I watched the same thing happen again and again. Brilliant, hard-working people would stall, not because they couldn't do the work, but because no one had ever taught them the human part: how to speak up, how to build trust, how to handle the conversation everyone else avoided.
I learned those skills the slow way, through real rooms and real mistakes, and then spent years as a mentor helping others learn them, too. The more I knowledge I shared, the clearer it became that almost none of it is ever formally taught. We're expected to just know how to give or receive hard feedback, read a room, or recover from a misstep, and then quietly judged when we don't.
So I built Trust, Talk and Teamwork to close that gap, for the people doing the work, at every level. Because the moment someone is handed the unspoken rules, the capability they already have finally gets to shine.
Trina May
Most people are far more capable than their workplace has let them be. The gap isn't always talent. It's the things no one ever explained.WHAT I BELIEVE
WHO I HELP
The same skills, wherever you're starting from.
The human side of work trips up the newest hire and the seasoned leader alike. Wherever you are on this list, the work begins in the same place.
Individuals growing their skills
You want to be heard, handle hard conversations, and feel steadier when the pressure's on.
New to the professional world
You're stepping into a workplace for the first time and learning its unwritten rules in real time. None of this was in the syllabus, and that's exactly what we cover.
Teams and organizations
You're building a culture where people communicate, trust each other, and feel safe enough to speak up, and you want a partner who gets the human side.
"Trina has the wisdom and experience to be a smart, effective leader, building the kind of trust with team members that helps them do their best work."Linda L.
WHAT’S NEXT
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