Tamara Yakaboski, PhD

Mentorship Coach | Leadership Consultant | Embodied Impact Strategist

(Re)Building resilience.
Embodying transformation. Collaborating with Nature.

My signature process is Awakening Resilience.

Your inner work is not separate from your outer work. It’s the root system.

Whether you’re an individual at a crossroads, a leader navigating complexity, or a community ready to engage with climate and collective care, resilience is the grounding force.

I’m Tamara Yakaboski, a former tenured professor and organizational sociologist turned mentorship and climate-aware coach and leadership consultant. I train and guide individuals, teams, and community groups through the messy middle but necessary work of reclaiming wisdom, reorienting to values, and restoring connection - to self, community, creativity, and Earth.

My path has taken me through academia, motherhood, career grief, and spiritual unraveling. I’ve rebuilt my life with deeper integrity, rooted in resilience research and Earth-based practices. I pivoted myself out of institutional systems at the pinnacle of my career as a tenured full professor and department chair. Now, I walk alongside others navigating their own metamorphosis so that they are ready to trust themselves again, reclaim their intuition, and live in right relationship with their inner and outer Nature.

I work with folks in these containers:

For those ready to pivot their life, career, or identity. We work at the intersection of intentionality, embodiment, and reconnection to help you trust yourself again and take meaningful, aligned action.
For teams, leaders, and institutions seeking lasting, impactful approaches to well-being, culture, and change. I offer consulting, workshops, and strategy rooted in relational leadership, emotional intelligence, and team resilience skill building.
For folks gathering around climate emotions, career grief, personal transformation, or embodied creativity. These are workshops, circles, retreats, and check-ins where we slow down, reconnect, and imagine new ways of becoming.

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Choose Your Path with Intention

Offering you six pathways of resilient, regenerative living and leading

Each of these is an invitation to reorient, reimagine, and rebuild in ways that honor your whole self, your community, and the planet.

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Career Crossroads

Navigate uncertainty. Reclaim your direction with clarity.

You're questioning your next steps. Should you stay or go? Or do you need space to navigate career grief and identity shifts? Or you want to transform how you work through mentorship and strategies from an insider who’s trained leaders, administrators, and faculty?

Explore 1:1 mentorship coaching, the Stay, Go, or Transform Your Career Program, and career support to change your relationship with your work.

Embodied Creativity

Reconnect to your embodied nature. Create from wholeness.

You want to live, work, and create with renewed purpose beyond productivity, perfectionism gremlins, or external output metrics. You know you can’t thrive in chronic burnout and are ready to root into creative, embodied, and values-aligned practices.

Explore community programs, creative mentorship, writing intensives, and personal retreats.

Grief & Threshold Work

Honor what’s ending. Claim what’s beginning next.

You’re crossing an invisible line into midlife, into loss, into the unknown. You’re navigating identity death, career rupture, menopause, or ancestral grief and need to honor what’s ending so something new can begin.

Explore grief-informed trainings for career and climate, grief circles, and creating personal ceremony or rituals for your day-to-day living.

Team & Leadership Resilience

Rebuild trust through changes. Lead with integrity.

You or your team are navigating burnout, disconnection, or organizational change. And you're ready to rebuild culture and trust with regenerative skills and empathetic, boundaried emotional intelligence. You know that resilience is a professional competency and want a thought partner with strategies.

Ideal for organizations, teams, and leadership groups seeking training, workshops, and retreats to support them through the messy middle of transformation.

Climate-Conscious Leadership & Living

Transform with grounded vision. Live in alignment with Earth.

You’re living, working, and leading in a world shaped by climate crisis and social injustices. You’re ready to adapt and transform with integrity and care through systems change work (advocacy, social justice, sustainability) where burnout and misalignment abound.

Workshops and coaching to reconnect with Nature, activate eco-emotional resilience, and lead regenerative change.

Career Diversifying

Dream a vision of possibilities. Then build it regeneratively.

You’re not meant to thrive in systems that are built to delete you. Career diversification is about aligning your livelihood with your values, needs, gifts, and vision. It’s reimagining work with embodied clarity checked against real world needs. Maybe it's a consulting path, creative endeavors, or parallel income stream to give you back your creativity, stability, and sovereignty.

Explore business dreaming, Aligned Action Intensives, and regenerative solopreneurship support through my individual and group programs.

Each of these represents a radical threshold into deeper ways of living and leading. The pathways are invitations to reconnect:

To your body’s truth
To nature’s wisdom
To community and care
To your creative embers
To the grief and joy of becoming
To dreams that build better futures