
Resilient People. Connected Teams. Purpose-Driven Organizations.
Helping leaders build cultures of care that sustain impact, creativity, and growth through uncertain times.
When people feel disconnected, exhausted, or uncertain, the entire organization feels it.
I partner with mission-driven companies, nonprofits, and higher education institutions to help teams realign around shared purpose, strengthen communication, and restore resilience. Through evidence-based practices, skill building, and reflective conversation, I partner with leaders to recreate workplaces where people feel valued, connected, and capable of navigating the messy middle of change together.
Resilient Teams is my signature program for organizations that want to shift from survival mode to sustainable impact.
Together, we identify the patterns—overwork, disconnection, unclear boundaries—that undermine team well-being and effectiveness. Then we practice new ways of working grounded in clarity, care, and shared purpose.
Outcomes include:
Increased trust and communication across teams
Clearer boundaries and reduced burnout
Stronger alignment between individual values and organizational goals
Renewed motivation and belonging
Bring resilience and purpose to your next professional development event.
Whether you’re gathering leaders, faculty, or staff, I create experiences that spark reflection and action. My interactive workshops and keynotes weave research, storytelling, and practical tools to help people reconnect with their purpose and build cultures of care.
Popular topics include:
Awaken Resilience: Leading with Care in Times of Change
Boundaries as the Gatekeepers of Resilience
The Key to Employee Retention: Meaning and Fulfillment
Redesigning Work for Purpose-Driven Growth
What’s Unique About My Style
I bring a rare blend of academic depth, lived administrative experience, and embodied practice to every workshop, coaching session, and strategic partnership. As a former professor and scholar of organizational sociology and leadership, I have spent over two decades studying the patterns that shape how people and institutions change—or don’t. My superpower lies in identifying those patterns, naming what others may miss, and co-strategizing pathways forward that are relationally sound, emotionally honest, and structurally sustainable.
Unlike many resilience or leadership offerings that stay at the surface, focusing only on productivity, mindset, or individual grit, my work is regenerative, relational, and grounded in real-world systems. I’m not interested in helping people just “bounce back.” I help individuals and teams transform through the hard stuff, integrating nervous system awareness, values alignment, and courageous communication.
I’m also a premier thought leader and facilitator in the emerging field of career grief—a lens that reveals how unresolved grief about identity, purpose, and professional disillusionment shapes burnout, disengagement, and resistance to change. Career grief is often unnamed and unprocessed, but it lives in the body and the workplace. My style gives people and teams the tools to name it, integrate it, and move through it with more clarity and confidence.
Ready to strengthen your team’s resilience and connection?
“Tamara’s approach to team and 1:1 sessions is deliberate and highly effective. Following an organizational restructuring in 2020 and returning to campus in 2023, our team had lost trust in the company and its leaders. We needed to be revitalized, and that would require (all of) us to change, but I didn’t know how to ignite or cultivate it. Because of this, I was looking for someone who would get to know us and identify the root cause of our dysfunction so we could move forward.
Tamara introduced us to powerful concepts and tools. I cannot unsee what she has taught me. One of the main issues with our team was my own behavior. I micromanaged and disempowered my people from resolving their conflicts. I spent so much time reacting that I didn't properly receive what was being said.
For the team, we are no longer stuck! Through our collective and individual efforts, we have transformed ourselves, our work, and our team. They are more open to changes, own their feelings, and are willing to shift their behaviors. Our team continues to be a work in progress, but I am confident that our transformation will be durable and sustainable.”