ToTran Nguyen

ToTran Nguyen is a Consultant with Triad Consulting Group. She helps leaders and teams navigate difficult conversations and strengthen the connections that shape work experiences and drive business outcomes. Her work blends behavioral science, socio-cultural perspectives, and systems thinking to ensure solutions and strategies are grounded in the realities of an organization’s day-to-day context.

Immersed in real-world settings, ToTran has conducted human-centered research on topics including multistakeholder collaboration and polarization in public health. Her peer-reviewed publications offer insight into why organizational initiatives often unfold differently than planned—and what it takes to foster more effective dialogue, collaboration, and progress on complex business and societal challenges.

ToTran has also advised senior leadership and guided teams at Fortune 500 companies and nonprofits through change, operational improvements, and growth strategies, as a consultant with Kearney and as an independent advisor. She has worked across diverse industries, including consumer goods, chemicals, IT, healthcare, and education.

She holds a PhD in Work & Organization and an MS in Culture & Development (highest distinction) from KU Leuven in Belgium, as well as an MBA from the Darden School of Business and a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Virginia. Drawing on the arts as inspiration for leading and learning, she can be found at dance festivals and art exhibitions where she embraces being a perpetual beginner.