Meet the Team
Guryan Tighe
Three Trees Institute Director of Training, Instructor, Coach,
Co-Founder
Guryan is Director of Training for Three Trees Institute. Guryan brings to our upcoming first responder program her experience as an executive coach, workshop leader, and communications strategist. Guryan created her company, FOURAGE because she's dedicated to helping people shift their relationship with fears to one of allyship. She created a model on how to identify and live your WHY (purpose) through accessing your fear. She's a published author; contributing a chapter on Fear as Your Treasure Map and The Importance of your WHY. The Better Business Book: 100 People, 100 Stories, 100 Business Lessons To Live By (Volume 3 & Volume 4).
She has served as the Head of Speaker Development at Jolt, working to reinvent the learning experience, Partner of Speakeasy Strategies, a strategic communication advisory firm where she led influencer relations and messaging & positioning, and prior to that, Chief Culture Officer, Highwire PR. Guryan received her coaches and leadership development training from The Coaches Training Institute (CTI).
Michael Blasi
Three Trees Institute COO, Instructor, Coach,
Co-Founder
Michael is a co-founder and chief operating officer for Three Trees Institute. He had a combined total of 28 years of military and public service when he retired permanently from public safety in the fall of 2020. While still serving as a peace officer, he completed a master of intuition medicine certification as an energy healer and intuitive practitioner. He continued his energy healing education by receiving his Reiki I Energy Healing certification in February 2021.
He is currently developing a course in conjunction with Three Trees Institute partner Guryan Tighe designed to help peace officers, first responders, front line health care workers and our armed forces veterans navigate their own struggles and challenges. He intends to leverage his own real world successes and failures in combination with Guryan's extensive expertise on the science of fear, organizational culture change, and corporate consulting to facilitate positive change and healing opportunities for us all. They hope to introduce and present their material at the start of the new year.
Michael's passion and hope is to introduce healing and intuition medicine as an energy practitioner to people who have dedicated their lives to public service of all kinds to help them cope and heal with the challenges and struggles from their years of service.
Alicia Lerrigo
Three Trees Institute CEO,
Co-Founder
Alicia is co-founder and chief executive officer of Three Trees Institute, formerly Three Trees Wellness. Alicia's professional background is in project, program and portfolio management. She has almost two decades of experience with Project and Program Management at Fortune 100 and 500 companies.
She wants to put her experience in organization, marketing, and business to work for a cause she holds dearest to her heart, "Wellbeing". She wants to help more and more people find it.
Alicia's goal is to ensure the branches that form Three Trees Institute: Wellness, Training and Coaching, are aligned with the company's mission to establish a support framework for powerful human growth and healing to occur in the communities we live in.