Teresa Tran Mar
M.A., PCC, PMP
Professional Certified Coach
Professional Background
Teresa coaches at the intersection of career and mindset. Her coaching mission is to empower women to find their authentic selves in order to achieve true fulfillment with themselves and their work. She specializes in coaching early to mid-career women in the following areas: career transitions, leadership, work/life integration, self-confidence/speaking up, people pleasing, and perfectionism.
Teresa is a Professional Certified Coach (PCC), Gallup Certified Strengths Coach, and Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) Qualified Administrator. She is also a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist. She holds a B.A. in Psychology, a M.A. in Organizational Psychology, and a Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
Teresa is also a founding member of Asian Women Collective Collective (AWCC). She is a co-lead for external engagements where she manages strategic partnerships with other organizations focused on advancing Asian-Americans in the workplace.
Outside of running her own coaching practice, Teresa is a program manager in Google Engineering with 13 years of experience on multi-billion dollar products such as Chrome, Search, gSuite and Google Cloud Platform. She works on people and product operations programs to improve Googlers’ lived experiences at work. She coaches Googlers as part of her community contributions.
Teresa’s Journey to Authenticity
Teresa came to coaching from a spiritual awakening in 2018 that transformed her life. Her wake-up call came from soul-crushing events at work that challenged her self-worth and culminated in a fainting incident. Her people-pleasing and perfectionism behaviors had finally caught up to her and couldn’t be ignored. These behaviors had helped her survive a traumatic childhood of poverty, alcoholism, neglect, and emotional abuse, but were no longer serving her as an adult. Her spiritual awakening was the catalyst for a transformational three-year journey of introspection, self-care, therapy, and career coaching. On the way, Teresa found her authentic self behind the debilitating fears she had around shame, failure, and rejection. She overcame numerous self-limiting beliefs and is now living out her true mission as a career and mindset coach. She thrives from connecting deeply with others and supporting their journey to find their authentic selves at work.
Teresa is inspired by Brené Brown for her shame and authenticity research, Ariana Huffington for her Thrive work, and self-made women entrepreneurs like Reese Witherspoon and Sara Blakely.
Teresa is married with 2 sons and 2 dogs. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, learning, practicing self-care, and connecting with loved ones.
Chat with me
Sign up for a complimentary session to discuss your goals and what may be holding you back.