awaken new insights and realize your potential
Hello and welcome!
I’m Tara Atkins-Brown, MSOD, your partner in professional and personal growth.
As a coach and consultant, I support purpose-driven leaders and teams to navigate career and life hurdles and excel in performance. My journey began in health education, driven by a passion to make a positive impact. Observing acquisition challenges my first two employers faced sparked my interest in organization development. Over my twenty years of organization development consulting experience, I’ve partnered with leaders during pivotal organization transformation. I’ve seen teams elevate performance, managers grow in effectiveness, and professionals bounce back from burnout. I believe in the power of deep listening and powerful questions to uncover your wisdom and answers within.
My experience
With a rich tapestry of experience as both an internal and external consultant, I bring a wealth of knowledge and a unique perspective to every organization I serve. My journey has allowed me to collaborate with industry leaders across diverse sectors, including utility, health care, high-tech, consulting, biotech, non-profit, and government. I take pride in my track record of developing comprehensive executive on-boarding and development programs, serving executive teams to navigate complex redesigns and merger, and delivering incisive assessments that drive management, leader, and team effectiveness. My facilitation and process support in strategic planning, conflict resolution, and collaborative processes has been instrumental in navigating change.
My training and toolkit
My purpose and philosophy
Personal purpose: Spark exponential benefit by serving those who serve others for a greater positive impact to our community and world.
Philosophy: People champion the changes they shape and see their future success. Open and empathetic listening, encouragement, and powerful questions are key to helping leaders carve out their unique leadership path.
What I believe:
- You are the expert of you. Everyone has their answer within them. My job is to help you draw it out. Ultimately, you and teams make the decisions that impact your lives and business.
- You deserve my best. Building of my organization development masters foundation, I have trained in tested tools that expand value including coaching, leadership assessments, team performance, facilitation, organization diagnosis and design, and conflict mediation.
- Integrity is everything. I uphold the highest standards in confidentiality to protect my coaching clients and team members who take risks to openly give the gift of feedback.
- Your diversity brings strength. Variety of backgrounds, ethnicities, sexualities, genders, (dis)abilities, and neurodiversities brings strength to team thinking and our community! I welcome the opportunity to work with diverse audiences.
- Teach to fish. My success is marked by my clients gaining the tools to help solve their future problems.
On a personal note
- I inherited entrepreneurial genes from my parents – my father who started several engineering companies in Silicon Valley, and my mother who served as his CFO.
- I’ve been consulting internally and externally for nearly two decades as I love helping others solve people puzzles.
- Life has its ups and downs. I’ve had mine and so have close friends and colleagues that I’ve helped rebound through health challenges and burnout.
- Beyond my profession, my passions include community resilience, cooking, gardening and restoring the upland/riparian habitat in the greenspace behind our home.
- I’m married to a wonderful 8th grade science teacher. We optimize our quality time by camping and hiking with our pup (Jackie) in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.
