Leadership
Tara is an alumnae of the Vermont Leadership Institute (2011) and has served in numerous leadership positions including as a School Board Chair. She is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Center for Courage & Renewal.
Facilitation
Tara has developed and facilitated workshops and retreats in Canada and the United States with youth, educators, philanthropists, leaders and activists, social services clients, and people in career transitions. She is a certified Courage & Renewal facilitator and serves as a mentor to new facilitators in preparation. Tara works with individuals, groups and organizations to support healing, change and emergent strategies that honour wholeness. Tara is deeply committed to her own inner work around anti-racism and anti-oppression--the being as well as the doing of social justice and transformation.
Tara's facilitation is specifically designed to help clients:
• Gain new insights and expand possibilities
• Become more balanced in life and leadership
• Achieve goals you never thought possible, both personally and professionally
• Gain tools to move your organization’s social impact metrics forward
• Optimize your inner trust, intuition and self-worth
• Achieve more with an accountability partner
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Courage to Lead--A Circle of Trust® Retreat--April 12-14, 2024 (Tatamagouche Centre, Nova Scotia) (ONSITE)
What Makes You Come Alive?: A Courage & Renewal event--Exploring the Power of Awe, Wonder, Resilience, and Delight (POSTPONED--Fall 2024)
Tara's facilitation is specifically designed to help clients:
• Gain new insights and expand possibilities
• Become more balanced in life and leadership
• Achieve goals you never thought possible, both personally and professionally
• Gain tools to move your organization’s social impact metrics forward
• Optimize your inner trust, intuition and self-worth
• Achieve more with an accountability partner
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Courage to Lead--A Circle of Trust® Retreat--April 12-14, 2024 (Tatamagouche Centre, Nova Scotia) (ONSITE)
What Makes You Come Alive?: A Courage & Renewal event--Exploring the Power of Awe, Wonder, Resilience, and Delight (POSTPONED--Fall 2024)
Testimonials
Tara's quiet but fierce leadership was immediately apparent when we participated in the Vermont Leadership Institute '11. More recently, this was reinforced further by my experience with Tara at the helm of a multi-generational training. Her intelligence and heart are always present and allow others to shine and discover new paths to leadership and community.
--Barbara McAndrew (she/her), Director of Development, UVM Health Network
Tara is a thoughtful, intellectually curious leader who has consistently helped make communities better places to live, work and play for many years. She is passionate about community building and has expertise across multiple fields, including philanthropy, human services, town planning and more. She is an excellent thought partner and collaborator and a delight to work with. --Christopher Kaufman Illstrup, Executive Director, Vermont Humanities Council
Tara is visionary leader and advocate who is engaging in some of the most important work of our time: Opening hearts and minds to create a more just and equitable society. We at Lead Smart Coaching, LLC are delighted to partner with Tara.
-- Valerie Brown, JD, MA, PCC, Principal, Lead Smart Coaching