Trisha Lagowski
Trisha Lagowski is an enterprise transformation leader known for her ability to step into complex organizations and rebuild them for scale, alignment, and long-term impact. With a career spanning public, private, and nonprofit sectors, she has developed a reputation for diagnosing operational challenges, uncovering untapped opportunities, and implementing structured solutions that drive measurable growth. Based in the Greater Orlando area, Trisha specializes in public–private partnerships, economic development, and stakeholder engagement, consistently operating at the intersection of strategy and execution.
Throughout her career, Trisha has led organizational restructuring efforts, strengthened stakeholder ecosystems, and built sustainable revenue and operational frameworks across diverse industries, including healthcare, construction, and the public sector. Her leadership roles—including executive and senior director positions—have centered on guiding organizations through periods of growth, transition, and transformation. Known for her hands-on approach, she engages both executive leadership and frontline teams to gain a full understanding of organizational needs, ensuring that solutions are practical, inclusive, and built for long-term success.
What sets Trisha apart is her natural ability to connect with people and foster trust quickly, creating environments where collaboration thrives and meaningful progress can take shape. She leads with a balance of clarity and empathy, helping teams navigate change while maintaining momentum toward shared goals. Passionate about building and scaling organizations, she continues to seek opportunities where she can drive impact, align vision with execution, and create lasting value across sectors.
• Florida Southern College- B.S.
• Ronald McDonald House Charities
What do you attribute your success to?
I just love to help people. That's really the bottom line. I love to help people in any way and any opportunity that I possibly can. With how I've grown as a professional, it really has allowed me to get hands-on experience with a lot more people and a lot wider variety of opportunities than I would have ordinarily expected, and I've been very grateful. I've gotten a lot of exposure to a lot of different experiences. It's been a very big blessing. The amount of people I'm able to help is what drives me, because that's all I ever want to do. I just want to help whoever, wherever, however I can, and with what I do, the how is a really, really wide range. I've actually really enjoyed sort of the bouncing around concept because it keeps my mind fresh, really fresh, and I have been able to hang on to my outsider's perspective, and that's a huge strength of mine as well.
What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
I don't know if this necessarily qualifies as advice, but there is a person who I've come across in my professional career who really introduced himself as someone good to always keep in your back pocket and to give a call anytime, really, on any topic, because everyone always needs someone. To just undeniably have that type of resource with the type of resources that they come with is a really powerful tool. Having that person as my resource for advice has been invaluable.
What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
The best plan to have is to not have a plan. Honestly. But then kind of same thing, just staying true to who you are, not falling beneath anybody's shadow, just not wavering from who and how you are as a person.
What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Well, the job market is just so odd in itself, but I think really for me personally, it's just been getting in front of the right human, and that's been the key piece, the human piece, because for me specifically, what I do and what I offer holds extreme value to literally anyone or any company in current existence or aspiring to be in existence. Sometimes it can be a challenge to really translate that on paper, but it's just getting past the automated systems and just getting directly to a human, because I know if I myself get in front of the decision-making human and they truly have the funding capacity to take on an additional resource, they're going to want me on board because that's just the value of what I do. But that's definitely becoming an increasing challenge - just getting in front of the right person or really, honestly, anyone for that matter.
What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
To stay open, honest, and transparent. I chant this with everything I do. I am perhaps one of the most genuine and authentic people that you will ever meet, and I will not ever step out of line, and it does not matter what I am being dragged through, what I have been thrown into, I will not steer from my line of my values and my beliefs. I want to always look back at what I have done, obviously to the best of my ability - I am human and I obviously make plenty of mistakes - but overall, big picture, I want to be able to look back and say that I did everything truly, genuinely, truly, honestly, and I want to take pride in that and show my kids that you do not have to bend the rules to do things that you believe in, that you need to stand true and strong to who you are, how you are, and your work can truly reflect that. That's something that I just, especially now more than ever, feel very, very strongly about.