About Tyler Carey — Founder, Trellis
Built from
the inside out.
Eleven years inside high-growth organizations. Four years directly focused on supporting leaders scale. One decision to build something of his own around the work that mattered most.
Why I built Trellis — and what I believe about talent.
I believe organizations can pursue excellence and human flourishing at the same time. In fact, I think the two reinforce each other.
The organizations I most want to work with are those that care deeply about the value they create for customers and want to build an environment where their people can grow, contribute, and perform at their best.
I spent nine years at Amazon Web Services working across people analytics, organizational effectiveness, and leadership development. In my final years there, I worked directly with senior leaders to assess their strengths, understand what might get in their way, and become more effective in increasingly complex roles. That experience shaped a conviction that has stayed with me: organizations get better when they become more intentional about developing the people inside them.
I started Trellis to help organizations do exactly that.
Sometimes that means assessing and coaching a leader in a critical role. Sometimes it means helping a team become more effective together. And sometimes it means building the talent systems and practices that make development part of how the organization operates.
The common thread is creating organizations where people are expected to do excellent work and are given the opportunity, feedback, support, and challenge to keep getting better.
I want to help build organizations that create exceptional value for the people they serve while becoming places where the people doing the work can flourish.
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CertificationHogan Assessments — HPI, HDS, MVPIKorn Ferry - Candidate Report
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BackgroundOrganizational psychology · talent management · people analytics
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Prior experience9 years at Amazon Web Services — including 4 years in executive leadership development2 years at T-Mobile - workforce strategy and insights
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CoachingInternational Coaching Federation (ICF) credentialed
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Based inGreater Seattle Area, Washington
Why Trellis.
Deep experience at scale
Nine years at Amazon Web Services — one of the world's most operationally disciplined organizations — focused on how leaders sustain effectiveness as scope, pressure, and complexity increase. Hundreds of hours interviewing and observing common patterns across high performing executives.
Executive-level application, not theory
Four years working directly with AWS executives navigating expanded roles — identifying which leadership behaviors to double down on and which needed to evolve. This work is built on what actually moves the needle at the senior level, not what sounds good in a workshop.
Grounded in evidence, not intuition
A background in organizational psychology and talent management means every engagement is built on validated methods. The Hogan Assessment framework has decades of predictive validity research behind it — trusted by 75% of Fortune 500 companies for good reason.
Standardized process, personalized outcomes
A repeatable assessment structure combining validated personality data, structured interviews, and stakeholder input — rigorous and consistent, but always tailored to the individual leader or team. The method is the same. The insight is always specific.
Let's find out if this is the right fit.
The first conversation is 30 minutes — no pitch, no pressure. Just an honest look at what you're working with: what's happening with your leaders or team, what you've tried, and what a meaningful outcome would look like.
From there, we'll discuss whether this work makes sense and what the right engagement would look like for your organization.
Book a strategy callMost engagements begin within two to four weeks of the initial conversation.