About
Activating lasting change for a better world
by helping organizations
chart their course.
Team Quest partners with leaders, teams, and organizations to unearth the core of the issue so that we can imagine possibilities and cocreate a path forward.
We work with mission-driven organizations grappling with difficulties linked to change and growth by unlocking the full potential of your team members to create and refine the structures, processes, and decision-making systems that create a sustainable and effective work environment.
Using our 5D approach, we will navigate each phase together to implement everlasting solutions that boost collaboration, effectiveness, inclusion, and productivity.
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Transform avoided conversations
into opportunities for growth
Let’s work together to unlock the full potential of your team through inclusive, honest dialogue and sustainable work management systems.
Boosting Engagement
We ensure every voice is heard, fostering a culture of inclusivity.
Open Communication
Establishing open communication channels to break down hierarchy constraints.
Psychological Safety
Creating environments where trust, clarity, and dialogue are welcomed.
Two-Way Feedback
Implementing formalized feedback systems to eliminate the fear of retribution.
Collaborative Connections
Streamlining hybrid arrangements for better connection and collaboration.
Our TEAM
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Maheen Shafiabady
Founder & Principal Consultant
I help Teams and Leaders grappling with difficulties linked to change and growth to harvest the experience and insights of everyone involved to find the structure, processes, information, decision-making, and rewards systems that best support your strategic objectives.
The reality is: most organizations are filled with exceptionally talented people, but your employees may not be sharing their full talent for any number of reasons (shifting & disconnected goals; low engagement levels; hierarchy constraints; etc).
Together, we will unlock the full potential of your team to create a sustainable, efficient, and effective work environment.
I am passionate about two facets of organizational effectiveness:
1) I help team members evolve into an engaged and satisfied community, committed to excellence and collaboration. My multi-cultural business experience allows me to reach across common divides to foster durable motivation, better teamwork, richer communication, and greater cross-functional collaboration.
2) I facilitate converting strategy into the required structure, operating and decision-making processes, information systems, and reward systems. I assist organizations in achieving sustainable competitive advantages through well-designed leadership, team building, and cross-functional work management training.
Fostering collaborative work environments with a holistic approach, I am comfortable with rolling up my sleeves, and I work effectively at all organizational levels with a results-driven focus.
Portfolio, Recent Projects
- Organizational Culture Shift & Creation after a Merger: formed a team of middle managers, front line staff, and team leaders focused on integrating, managing, and protecting organizational culture and values.
- Enhanced Meeting Productivity: elevated meeting facilitation skills of individual contributors and managers, focusing on hybrid formats, inclusion, and productivity.
- Embedded Collaborative Wellness for Burnt-Out Staff: fostered peer support and workplace wellness by creating a bespoke program focused on small, incremental, habit-forming practices.
- Leadership Transition for a General Manager: Assisted a new General Manager at a family-run business in understanding team dynamics and aligning with board members, facilitating a smooth leadership transition.
- Vision and Empowerment for a Founder: Helped a President and Founder clarify their visionary role and delegate daily operations, empowering their team and enhancing organizational efficiency.
Credentials & Certifications
M.S., Organization Development – University of San Francisco
B.S., Communications and Education – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Positive Psychology Master Coach – advanced training in the principles of positive psychology to enhance coaching effectiveness
Hogan Personality Assessments Certified Coach: Surfacing intrapersonal and interpersonal focus areas by providing deep personal and team insights.
The 5 Behaviors of a Cohesive Team: Improving team performance through Pat Lencioni’s framework.
Consultant & Coach
With over two decades of experience supporting and amplifying efforts that advance equity and social change in communities across the US, T.J. Jourian supports organizations, changemakers, leaders, and individual contributors align with their purpose and courageously move towards equity. Through consulting, training, coaching, and research and assessment services, he helps build and actualize a DEI-centered strategy that drives individual, team, and structural progress. Thinking beyond formulaic “best practices,” T.J. partners with clients to co-design a process that centers connection, learning, balance, and adaptability.
T.J.’s lived and professional experiences, as well as deep study and research, have honed his ability to approach any situation from a multiplistic perspective, to get creative and find new and divergent pathways forward, and do so hold relationships and humanity at the center. He is a champion of change makers and binary breakers and his super power is in seeing connections across seemingly disparate ideas, work, communities, and priorities.
Portfolio, Recent Projects
- Strategic visioning and planning: facilitated a strategic planning process with staff, board, volunteers, and past and current participants of a local chapter of a nationally-renowned arts-based organization
- Equity assessment and playbook: developed an equity-based playbook focused on supporting trans and nonbinary citizens and guests for a large, metropolitan city in the South through assessment and recommendations of policy, programmatic, and initiative-based strategy
- Inclusion curriculum development: designed three 90-minute modules deliverable in-person or virtual, accompanying workbooks, and asynchronous training-of-trainers to advance organizational inclusion through employee training
- In-residence trainer and consultant: oversaw the planning of and facilitated day-long programming sessions at four conferences for a college-to-career professional association spanning four different industries, served as on-time consultant, and compiled recommendations for future iterations
- Career crossroads group coaching: developed and facilitated a 3-month coaching program for LGBTQ professionals of color at a career crossroads within and beyond their industries
Credentials & Certifications
Ph.D., Higher Education – Loyola University Chicago
M.A., Student Affairs Administration – Michigan State University
B.A., General Management – Michigan State University
Certified Professional Coach (CPC), iPEC Coaching – demonstrated knowledge and proficiency using iPEC’s proprietary method of Core Energy Coaching™ and in core competencies outlined by the International Coaching Federation
Certified Life Coach | COR.E Transitions Dynamics Specialist (CTDS), iPEC Coaching – trained to coach with a specialized focus applying the principles of Energy Leadership™ to support clients during any type of transition.
Energy Leadership™ Index Master Practitioner (ELI-MP), iPEC Coaching – trained to coach and debrief clients using the researched and proprietary ELI Assessment to uncover opportunities for deeper awareness, optimal performance, and growth.
Portfolio, Recent Projects
- Organizational Culture Shift & Creation after a Merger: formed a team of middle managers, front line staff, and team leaders focused on integrating, managing, and protecting organizational culture and values.
- Enhanced Meeting Productivity: elevated meeting facilitation skills of individual contributors and managers, focusing on hybrid formats, inclusion, and productivity.
- Embedded Collaborative Wellness for Burnt-Out Staff: fostered peer support and workplace wellness by creating a bespoke program focused on small, incremental, habit-forming practices.
- Leadership Transition for a General Manager: Assisted a new General Manager at a family-run business in understanding team dynamics and aligning with board members, facilitating a smooth leadership transition.
- Vision and Empowerment for a Founder: Helped a President and Founder clarify their visionary role and delegate daily operations, empowering their team and enhancing organizational efficiency.
Credentials & Certifications
M.S., Organization Development – University of San Francisco
B.S., Communications and Education – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Positive Psychology Master Coach – advanced training in the principles of positive psychology to enhance coaching effectiveness
Hogan Personality Assessments: Surfacing intrapersonal and interpersonal focus areas by providing deep personal and team insights.
The 5 Behaviors of a Cohesive Team: Improving team performance through Pat Lencioni’s framework.
Learning & Development Consultant
Megha is a leadership trainer, facilitator, and executive coach. She loves to help leaders and teams strengthen how they communicate, collaborate, and make decisions, especially in fast-paced, high-stakes environments. With a research background in investigating the neurobiology of behavior, she brings a data-driven lens to the human side of workplace performance: how people handle uncertainty, feedback, conflict, influence, and change.
Megha partners with organizations to move beyond “good intentions” and into practical, observable behavior change. Her work is designed to be immediately usable; participants leave with clear language, repeatable tools, and simple practice structures that hold up in real world situations at work and outside of it.
Portfolio, Recent Projects
- Improved Data Fluency: Designed and delivered a Data Sensemaking workshop to help municipal energy staff engage productively with technical data, ask sharper questions, and translate insights into decisions.
- Collaboration Offsite Facilitation: Built and facilitated a one-day collaboration offsite for a commercial operations + analytics team to reduce silos, clarify decision-making, and strengthen operating norms.
- Women’s Leadership Program Design: Developed a research-backed multi-part leadership development program for women in traditionally male-dominated industries, integrating cohort practice and practical career tools.
- Executive Leadership Coaching: Coached senior leaders on accountability, stakeholder management, and modeling collaborative behavior to improve cross-functional outcomes.
- External L&D Partner: Currently serves as the dedicated external partner to a Director of Leadership Development at a large biopharma: advises on needs assessment, program design, and facilitation strategy for commercial capability priorities; translates stakeholder input into workshop-ready learning experiences and toolkits, and supports delivery readiness across Sales/Marketing/Market Access/Data & Analytics.
Credentials & Domains
Ph.D., Neurobiology – Stanford University
B.S., Integrative Biology – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
*Facilitation
*Course development & curriculum design
*Needs Assessment design & implementation
*Study design & data analysis
*Leadership Coaching
Nicole Ennen
Leadership & Team Consultant
Nicole Ennen believes that people are the heart of all organizations. Nicole specializes in developing and facilitating experiential workshops and employee solutions to help people in organizations work better, together.
Some areas of expertise include developing managers/leaders, building interpersonal skills in employees, and creating effective team cultures. She brings a unique approach, combining 14+ years of industry experience, a M.A. in I/O Psychology, and expertise in the creative arts to build engaging programs that help organizations and their people balance the complexities of doing business and being human.
Portfolio, Recent Projects
- Intro To Management Workshop Series: Developed and facilitated a 4 week program for new managers to help them develop key skills for success, such as: Emotional intelligence, Building an effective team culture, Performance management, Giving feedback and more. Included interactive components such as weekly activities, paired learning/discussion, 1:1 coaching based on Hogan assessments, and more.
- Virtual Interpersonal Skill Training: Developed and filmed educational videos about topics such as emotional intelligence, trust-building, and resilience as a part of an online simulation training program. Collaborated with client to create learning and development materials, including content creation, developing case study scenarios, and presenting the material on camera.
- Team-building Workshop: Used assessment-based approach to facilitate team building workshops for an internal research-based team to help them develop norms around communication, decision-making, and more. Reviewed assessment results, identified potential areas of conflict, discussed potential solutions, and created plan for next 6 months.
Credentials & Certifications
M.A. Industrial/Organizational Psychology – Minnesota State University-Mankato
B.A. Psychology, B.A. Sociology – University of Montana
Hogan Personality Assessments Certified Coach: Surfacing intrapersonal and interpersonal focus areas by providing deep personal and team insights.
Movement in Practice Certified Facilitator
Consultant & Coach
With over two decades of experience supporting and amplifying efforts that advance equity and social change in communities across the US, T.J. Jourian supports organizations, changemakers, leaders, and individual contributors align with their purpose and courageously move towards equity. Through consulting, training, coaching, and research and assessment services, he helps build and actualize a DEI-centered strategy that drives individual, team, and structural progress. Thinking beyond formulaic “best practices,” T.J. partners with clients to co-design a process that centers connection, learning, balance, and adaptability.
T.J.’s lived and professional experiences, as well as deep study and research, have honed his ability to approach any situation from a multiplistic perspective, to get creative and find new and divergent pathways forward, and do so hold relationships and humanity at the center. He is a champion of change makers and binary breakers and his super power is in seeing connections across seemingly disparate ideas, work, communities, and priorities.
Portfolio, Recent Projects
- Strategic visioning and planning: facilitated a strategic planning process with staff, board, volunteers, and past and current participants of a local chapter of a nationally-renowned arts-based organization
- Equity assessment and playbook: developed an equity-based playbook focused on supporting trans and nonbinary citizens and guests for a large, metropolitan city in the South through assessment and recommendations of policy, programmatic, and initiative-based strategy
- Inclusion curriculum development: designed three 90-minute modules deliverable in-person or virtual, accompanying workbooks, and asynchronous training-of-trainers to advance organizational inclusion through employee training
- In-residence trainer and consultant: oversaw the planning of and facilitated day-long programming sessions at four conferences for a college-to-career professional association spanning four different industries, served as on-time consultant, and compiled recommendations for future iterations
- Career crossroads group coaching: developed and facilitated a 3-month coaching program for LGBTQ professionals of color at a career crossroads within and beyond their industries
Credentials & Certifications
Ph.D., Higher Education – Loyola University Chicago
M.A., Student Affairs Administration – Michigan State University
B.A., General Management – Michigan State University
Certified Professional Coach (CPC), iPEC Coaching – demonstrated knowledge and proficiency using iPEC’s proprietary method of Core Energy Coaching™ and in core competencies outlined by the International Coaching Federation
Certified Life Coach | COR.E Transitions Dynamics Specialist (CTDS), iPEC Coaching – trained to coach with a specialized focus applying the principles of Energy Leadership™ to support clients during any type of transition.
Energy Leadership™ Index Master Practitioner (ELI-MP), iPEC Coaching – trained to coach and debrief clients using the researched and proprietary ELI Assessment to uncover opportunities for deeper awareness, optimal performance, and growth.