Services
The services I offer fall into four main areas: assessment, strategy and implementation, coaching and speaking. Together, we can determine what mix of services will best fit your needs.
Assessment
I help you measure things that matter.
Analyzing various kinds of data will help you understand where your organization is today. This data can include:
- HR data
- Employee engagement surveys
- Candidate surveys
- Exit surveys
- Performance evaluations
This assessment will help us define where to focus your effort.
Strategy and Implementation
I help you build strategies and implement specific programs to make your culture more inclusive and equitable.
Your strategy will connect your hiring, learning and development programs, grassroots employee resource groups and DEI leadership council in a cohesive way that helps drive systemic change.
Using inclusive design, I can also help your company adjust its product or service offering. Inclusive design is a methodology that enables and draws on the full range of human diversity. Most importantly, this means including and learning from people with a range of perspectives.
Speaking
I’ve given keynotes internationally and have spoken at a range of corporate events around the world. I’m available to do keynotes, corporate events, fireside chats, panel discussions and more.
In my talks, I weave together stories, academic research and ideas drawn from my practical experience of seeing what works and what doesn’t in many organizations. I always aim to leave audiences with a new perspective and concrete takeaways.
Topics include:
- DEI in tech
- Effective DEI strategies
- Queer and trans inclusive design
- Ethics and technology
Coaching
I help women of color in corporate careers go from underestimated and overworked to unapologetic and wildly successful.
Coaching is a process that helps leaders unlock their potential, get unstuck, find inspiration and reach their goals. As your coach, I’ll partner with you to ask you thought-provoking questions and suggest new paradigms. I will see your awesomeness, witness your struggles and resilience and champion your successes. I’ll support you as you dig deeper and think bigger. Coaching is a tranformative experience!
I also provide coaching to fellow DEI professionals. As you’re supporting organizations that are doing the hard work of change, who is supporting you—personally, professionally or both? I can help you reconnect to the reason why you started doing this work, explore and discover your values, and clarify your dreams and goals. Together, we can quiet your inner critic and help you achieve your greatness.
By the start of 2023, I’ll be a certified coach with the Co-Active Training Institute, an accredited program that’s been considered the gold standard in the leadership coaching industry for 30 years. I’m working with Coaching for Everyone, a BIPOC-centred coaching initiative.
Reach out to book a chemistry session to see if we might be a good fit for each other!
Testimonials
Tara is a professional, knowledgeable partner for engineering teams looking to build organizations that are more inclusive of a variety of viewpoints. She’s comfortable confidently coaching leaders who are building new muscles in our modern world. If you are looking to transform your organization, Tara is an amazing partner.
Tara is a trusted sounding board for the people around her, sharing valuable insights and perspectives and always holding herself and others accountable to inclusion by personally modeling inclusive behaviors. Besides being a passionate advocate for equity-seeking communities, she is equally adept at setting meaningful goals and driving results.
Tara has been a wonderful help in navigating some complex corporate governance/personnel issues. She’s thoughtful, attentive, and passionate about what she does. I’ve worked one-on-one with Tara, and I leave every meeting with a clearer sense of how to look at, and tackle problems. I highly recommend working with Tara.
Tara has deeply impacted how we at Openscapes build diversity, equity and inclusion into the fabric of our science mentorship programs. Working with Tara isn’t a box to check, it is a conversation to start, habits to develop. She helped us be braver in how we lead, how we speak up, how to learn from mistakes. We continue to build from what we’ve learned with Tara, which is perhaps the most important thing of all.
Tara was a crucial partner in making my engineering organization tighter and more capable. She brings an infectious energy and forward motion to projects and conversations. I worked primarily with Tara on D&I initiatives and situations, and I would strongly recommend her for any role that requires the navigation of new or tough conversations that need to happen in an organization.
Tara is a strategic and pragmatic partner to any leader, especially those in the C-Suite. At Crunchyroll, Tara drove DEI assessments across the business and jumped in to help our newly formed DEI Steering Committee to find its footing. The most meaningful was the work Tara did to help amplify and stabilize our ERGs. She brought expertise and even guest speakers we couldn’t have procured on our own.