Build a resilient, connected, and high-performing team through the Resilient Teams Series
In a world marked by ongoing uncertainties – economic instability, climate crisis, and systemic inequities – resilience is not an optional luxury for professional development. Resilience is the missing key skill for creating people-first leadership, genuine connections, authentic engagement, and community impact. Resilient leaders and employees are vital to your organization's mission and growth.
Too often, organizations place the burden of change at the individual level, leaving under-supported staff and managers overwhelmed and without the necessary skills, support, or space to grow. The good news is that resilience is not a fixed trait, but a built competency that can be developed through teachable mindset shifts, skill-building, and practices. Resilient teams don’t bounce back from adversity; they adapt and transform with intention, trust, and integrity.
This is where the Resilient Teams and Leaders training comes in, offering a unique blend of coaching, consulting, and training that navigates the messy middle of growth.
Why Resilience Matters
Most team-building and leadership frameworks begin from a deficit model - what’s broken, what’s missing, what’s wrong. What if we began from wholeness?
My signature approach, developed through years of research and facilitation across sectors, focuses on strengths-based, regenerative practices that equip individuals and teams to:
Navigate emotional and professional complexity with confidence and clearer communication
Strengthen peer accountability and collective care with a coaching framework
Build cultures of clarity, collaboration, and courage without burnout and stagnant productivity
This isn’t a one-off training or retreat. It’s a pathway to sustainable, people-centered leadership.
Who This is For
Resilience training is designed for organizations, departments, and leadership teams who:
Are navigating change, reorganization, or team restructuring
Experience low morale, high burnout, or trust breakdowns
Want to deepen collaboration, communication, and cohesion to maximize creativity
Seek a proactive, grounded approach to emotional and cognitive resilience in the workplace
Whether you’re leading a non-profit, higher education division, or corporate team, resilience matters because your people matter.
What Your Team Will Gain
The Resilient Teams curriculum is tailored for your team, so that participants leave the program with tangible skills and capabilities that benefit both the individual and the collective:
Greater emotional and cognitive agility
Understand internal stories, emotional triggers, and nervous system cues. Shift from reactive patterns to responsive leadership and team dynamics.
Clearer boundaries and burnout prevention
Develop healthy limits that support well-being and focus in order to maximize creativity and innovation. Reduce the overwork/guilt cycle and create space for sustainable productivity.
Trust, accountability, and collaboration
Address interpersonal challenges directly to save mental and emotional time and resource drains. Practice transparent communication, shared responsibility, and group cohesion.
Proactive problem solving and adaptability
Build capacity for navigating the ambiguity that exists throughout all levels of change. Learn to lead and peer support through uncertainty with curiosity, courage, and aligned decision-making.
Embodied, value-aligned work
Integrate internal wisdom, integrity, and compassion into everyday work. Model what it means to lead and function within a team with humanity and strength.
“Before working with Resilient Teams and Tamara, I felt trapped and stuck in my role, and I struggled to find purpose and joy in my work. Now I feel empowered and safer at work to be who I am. I’m proud of the work our team has done to reframe our thinking towards empowerment, ownership, and accountability. I highly recommend this program and working with Tamara. She listens and seeks to understand, gets to the root cause of the conflict and dysfunction without blame, and helps you move forward, both as an individual and as a team.”
- Lianne, participant
What could your team become with the right support? Let’s find out what they can accomplish with Resilient Teams Program.
"The COVID-19 pandemic took a toll on us. Folks were questioning and exploring their work and personal lives more closely than ever. Tamara helped our team members focus and center their thoughts and values. The praise I heard from our staff was overwhelming and heartfelt. Folks really appreciated bringing Tamara in. It made a significant difference and impact for many.
Leaders throughout our organization agreed that Tamara's approach and philosophy were exactly what we needed."
-Dr. Brett Perozzi, Vice President of Student Affairs, Weber State University
The Awaken Resilience Model
The core of the Resilient Teams and Leaders experience is my Awaken Resilience framework, a process of six key components developed through years of leadership and organizational research, coaching, and facilitation. Each session integrates individual and team-level learning through six components:
Self and systems awareness to axe negative bias and group contagion
Emotional and cognitive regulation of self in group settings
Adaptability and mindset growth to reclaim self-accountability
Value-aligned action and integrity for intrinsic motivation
Boundaries and collective accountability to foster work relationships
Proactive and creative decision making to fuel forward movement
These components unfold over a 7- or 10-week series that can be customized to fit your organization’s needs, including 1:1 coaching or team-specific assessments.
Outcomes and Research-based Competencies
By the end of the program, your team will embody core resilient competencies and leadership capabilities. By conducting pre- and post-assessments, these are the prominent ones that have occurred across teams in corporate and university settings.
-
Team members moved from viewing resilience as individual endurance to seeing it as a shared, relational, and systemic practice. Emphasis grew on emotional intelligence, trust-building, and mutual support within teams.
-
Participants showed growth in identifying stress triggers, pausing before reacting, and managing physiological responses. Individuals understood their stress thresholds and reset behaviors in order to grow tolerance.
-
Teams developed shared language for giving and receiving feedback without defensiveness, thus strengthening communication with each other and their supervisors. Participants began distinguishing between feedback, criticism, and courageous conversations, normalizing accountability.
-
Participants showed more curiosity toward others’ perspectives and increased capacity to engage across differences. This led to reduced silos, improved morale, and more effective coordination.
-
Team members were more reflective about their personal motives and impact on group dynamics. Decision-making became more intentional, grounded in empathy, clarity, and values rather than urgency or emotion, thus making them more effective and efficient.
-
There was a notable shift from reactive behavior to addressing root causes with empathy and clarity. Teams engaged more directly with change and ambiguity, fostering a mindset of learning through change, not just surviving.
-
Teams began using workshop tools (e.g., emotional check-ins, resilience language, feedback loops) in meetings. There is now shared ownership of team resilience, with leaders modeling reflective and emotionally attuned behaviors.
Ready to Lead More Boldly?
Let’s create a team culture rooted in connection, courage, and care.
Bring the Resilient Teams Program to your organization today.
What I Bring That Makes This Last
Scholar-Practitioner Insight
I ground all my work as an organizational sociologist in the research-backed principles of org development, leadership theory, neuroscience and adult development, while also making it deeply accessible and actionable for everyday life and work.
Embodied Resilience, Not Surface Fixes
My approach is holistic, meaning we begin in the body, and connect to the mind, so that participants learn to feel and respond rather than override and react. This allows for deeper, more lasting change. I want you to not have to keep hiring trainers and coaches.
Relational Repair and Realignment
I get into the messy middle of relational dynamics with you. I help teams and leaders build trust by moving through rupture, not around it. Together, we develop shared language, practices, and accountability that rebuild connection at every level.
Pattern Recognition + Strategic Solutions
Whether in one-on-one coaching or team facilitation, I help you see the blind spots to learn what’s really going on beneath the surface, and then work alongside you to build capacity, shift behavior, and develop aligned, long-term solutions.
Resonance and Real Results
This work isn’t a quick fix and that’s the point. It sticks because it’s honest, embodied, and tailored. Every session plants seeds for transformation.
“When we first started the Resilient Teams program, I really struggled with speaking openly and taking things personally. I found myself always assuming the worst. Since then, I’ve shifted from feeling tense and uncomfortable at work to feeling much more at ease. Our team feels whole again, and I feel more at peace with who I am and what is happening around me. Working with Tamara made such a huge difference! She works WITH you. The sessions aren’t a bunch of lectures. Sure, she has slides with tactics, but she makes sure to address what the team needs and tailor the sessions accordingly.”
- Leslie, participant
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.
Here’s What Others Are Saying
“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.”
- Janine, Director and Chief of Staff, Biotech company
“What a difference Resilient Teams has made for me and our team. Before working with Tamara, I didn’t know how to identify my feelings and how they impacted my behavior at work. I also struggled with giving and receiving feedback, as well as asking for what I wanted and needed.
I’ve learned from working with Tamara! Now I know that giving feedback should be approached as a means to strengthen relationships and foster collaboration, not critique and criticize. Feedback isn't so bad, and I feel comfortable receiving it and giving it!
I appreciate how Tamara clearly cared about our team. She was able to take a look at what our team struggled with and put a name to it. She is solutions-oriented.”
- Andrea, participant