I’m Tralee McGinness, and I started Mutual Genius to guide business owners so they can engage with their businesses and customers the way they want to. As a business owner, you may find that to continue growing, you need help but don’t know what kind of help you need or you're not sure where to start. You can’t see the forest for the trees.

Mutual Genius can be that trusted and knowledgeable resource that helps you get organized. I can be an advisor & sounding board as you consider where to next invest your energy. I can keep you focused & on-task during those long projects that you may have been avoiding.

Over my career I have seen first hand how massive corporations, non-profits & smaller owner-operator businesses are run & how they succeed. My broad scope of professional experience gives me a unique perspective that I want to share with business owners so that, to the benefit of their businesses, they can engage with best practices across industries & environments.

After 13 years in the corporate world I created Mutual Genius. This endeavor is made up of the parts of my career that I excelled at & enjoyed, combined with what I'm passionate about: nurturing non-corporate & local businesses so communities can maintain their cultures, independence & identities. That passion comes from living in Seattle for 21 years & witnessing what has changed over that time.
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Professionally, my most recent formal role was at Amazon as a program manager in the legal department. Prior to that, I worked for over 5 years as the Executive Assistant (EA) to Amazon's Chief Financial Officer. If you're unfamiliar with the EA role, it includes a broad set of responsibilities including developing & managing processes for efficiency, time & relationship management, team-wide communications & event planning, hiring & management of employees, & constantly connecting seemingly disparate elements into a cohesive set of expressions & practices. Being an EA required me to have my finger on the pulse of company-wide goings-on as well as have advantageous insight into critical aspects like Human Resources, communications, inter-team & employee politics, significant yet confidential impending changes, & beyond.

I have also worked at as a development assistant at a non-profit (the awesome Three Dollar Bill Cinema which produces the annual Seattle Queer Film Festival & Translations Film Festival), as a barista & bartender (at West Seattle businesses Bird on a Wire & Admiral Bird, now operating under different management as The Birdhouse & BeBop's Waffle Shop), as a nanny, & in retail. I've held a number of administrative-focused roles in a variety of environments (sales & recruiting, economic & financial planning & consulting, & industrial fabrication). I've been a Rat City Rollergirl, & volunteered with Seattle Arts & Lectures, & Artist Trust. 
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I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, earned my BA in English Creative Writing (from the University of Oklahoma by way of the University of Montana), & moved to the PNW in 2003.​
 
My manner is straightforward & curious. I have a good sense of humor & ask a lot of questions. It's important to me that people be heard & seen; I value & am inspired by others' experiences & perspectives.​​