About Trellis-Strategy
You have an idea. A challenge to solve. A goal you want to achieve. But knowing where to start, or how to move from vision to action, isn't always straightforward.
That's where Trellis-Strategy comes in.
Inspired by the way a trellis supports and guides healthy growth, Trellis-Strategy helps organizations gain clarity, build momentum, and achieve meaningful results. We provide strategic guidance, trusted partnership, and embedded support that help organizations navigate complexity and move their priorities forward with confidence.
Whether you're launching a new initiative, engaging stakeholders, building partnerships, facilitating collaboration, or bringing a program to life, Trellis-Strategy provides the structure, leadership, and capacity needed to turn ideas into action.
With more than a decade of experience working across environmental, water, energy, and sustainability initiatives, we bring practical expertise in strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, coalition building, communications, education, program management, and facilitation. Our approach is grounded in listening, collaboration, and a commitment to helping organizations do what they do best.
Trellis-Strategy is a woman-owned, military spouse-owned small business dedicated to helping mission-driven organizations create lasting impact.
Jamie Garrett, Founder and Owner
Jamie brings 15 years of experience and success across environmental sustainability initiatives. She excels at systematically organizing goals into clear, actionable steps. Jamie has worked across the nexus of energy-water-food including in renewable energy space with EVs, with cleantech start ups, on sustainable water infrastructure, and on creating more equitable and accessible food systems. She believes a comprehensive outlook across this nexus, as well as a collaborative approach across relevant initiatives, will yield the most impactful outcome.
Jamie has her BS in Business Administration from University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and her MBA from the UC San Diego Rady School of Management. She worked with the Milken Innovation Center developing financial models and catalyzing programs and partnerships for sustainable water infrastructure in Israel and California, and spearheaded business development strategies for OPTERRA, focusing on EV infrastructure, energy resiliency, and waste-to-energy growth initiatives. She serves as Secretary on Board of Directors for the Association of Women on Water, Energy, Environment (AWWEE), as co-chair for the Resiliency Working Group for San Diego Regional Climate Collaborative, as a board member for Cleantech San Diego, and has experience judging, evaluating, and advising cleantech startups, including for UC San Diego's Entrepreneurship Center, Cleantech Open, and LA Cleantech Incubator. Jamie also serves as Secretary on the City of San Diego's Climate Resiliency Advisory Board.
Jamie has a passion for growing, preparing, and sharing food with her community. Through her life she has spent time volunteering on farms, educating children about food and cooking, and has been engaged with organizations such as Slow Food, Coastal Roots Farm, and many local San Diego farmers markets. Jamie connects her work to this passion through "Balanced-Palate".
