COACHING

Achieve breakthrough leadership success

As the world of work has changed, so have the demands on public service leaders. It’s now harder than ever to succeed at work and have energy left in the tank for anything else.

My coaching program, Personalized Leadership Development, is a proven way to help Executives and Senior Managers navigate a wide array of challenges, ranging from demanding schedules to interpersonal dynamics, political pressure, and change management.

I offer one-on-one, confidential coaching that strengthens leaders’ ability to thrive in a dynamic and demanding work environment. Grounded in research and backed by decades of experience in developing top-tier leaders, my approach ensures comprehensive support tailored to each individual's needs.

My coaching programs serves different points in a
leader’s development

New Leadership Role

Guiding Organizational Change

Succession Planning

What you can expect from coaching

Initial
Assessment

Absolute Confidentiality

Leadership Confidence

Measurable
Results

Monthly Sessions

Personalized Guidance & Materials

Positive Transformation

Certificate for Training Hours

Throughout coaching, we will prioritize your well-being — ensuring you feel, perform, and lead at your best.

Executives and senior managers facing new challenges need a diverse range of skills — a blend of existing abilities and additional capacities to thrive amidst heightened responsibilities and expectations.

Coaching is designed to assist you in this journey. I provide essential skills in visionary leadership, effective communication, strategic thinking, emotional intelligence, adaptability, collaboration, problem-solving—all while placing your well-being at the forefront.

My coaching program includes ten, 50-minute, monthly sessions. Every session is completely confidential and personalized to address your individual leadership objectives. In addition to our sessions, I provide supplementary learning materials such as skills videos and handouts to enhance your learning and reinforce your skills outside of our sessions.

My priority is your tangible progress, ensuring that each session yields significant benefits for you. Whether it's saving time, enhancing performance, boosting confidence, improving relationships, resolving conflicts, or achieving successful negotiations, I am deeply committed to your measurable advancement through our coaching partnership.

Clients love my coaching

  • “Tara’s coaching was truly a life changing experience for me. The insights she offered have been lasting and help me become the best version of myself. She is an informed advisor and her breadth of knowledge, fantastic listening skills, and objective approach always left me excited for our next session together.”

    Natalie Krout, ISD Director, CDFA

  • "Tara’s executive coaching significantly improved my management skills and overall efficiency. Her personalized lesson plan helped me enhance my abilities in managing meetings, developing briefings, and coaching my leadership team. As a result, I feel more focused, productive, and less stressed."

    Jeremy Lancaster, Director & State Geologist, DOC


  • “Tara’s coaching style is truly transformative. We set clear objectives for our time together and made measurable progress in areas of leadership, presence, and work-life balance. Her work helped me grow in confidence, create the space for proactive strategic focus, and gave me new ways of thinking that have changed me for the better.”

    Meghan Hertel, Deputy Secretary for Biodiversity and Habitat, CNRA

  • “Tara helped me develop a leadership style that aligns with my values. Her coaching was highly attuned and tailored to my needs, helping me discover new areas for growth along the way. I was fortunate to meet Tara at a critical juncture in my career, and I'm confident I will draw on her teachings for years to come.”

    Andrew King, Deputy Director of Data Operations Strategy, CA Office of Data and Innovation

  • “My sessions with Tara have been incredibly helpful in changing the way I approach my work. Her direct, candid feedback has given me practical ideas that I’ve been able to apply effectively. I feel truly heard without any judgment, regaining confidence in leveraging my strengths, learning from failure, and growing as both a person and a leader."

    Hye-Youn Park, Senior Toxicologist, OEHHA

  • "The modern workplace is chaotic and demanding. Tara helped me reset with concrete steps to bring my authentic self to work and maximize my positive impact through leadership. She doesn’t shy away from hard truths and honest feedback and challenges you to be the best version of your professional self. I am so grateful to have worked with her!"

    Tony Andersen, Deputy Secretary for Communications, CNRA

  • "Coaching assisted me in identifying and resolving challenges that exist from an organizational level as well as from an interpersonal level. I have encouraged our entire Executive Team to participate because I believe that we and the organization can benefit from working with Tara."

    Edna Murphy, Deputy Executive Officer, CARB

  • "Tara’s coaching has been instrumental in assisting my transition to executive management. She provided numerous tailored and practical insights and recommendations that covered a wide range of every day challenges related to personnel management, strategic planning, and building a strong culture.”

    Brian Brown, Chief Financial Officer, DTSC

  • "Tara’s coaching has been truly transformative to me as a leader. She helped me create bandwidth to focus on my own priorities in my work. Tara gave me the tools to not only address the challenges I was having, but also to feel like I have a strong foundation to navigate challenges that will come.”

    Laurel Firestone, Board Member, CA SWRCB

  • “Tara’s skills were crucial to helping me discover sustainable solutions. She frequently challenged me to clarify the problem, consider other perspectives, and develop practical solutions. Tara was also excellent at helping to zero in on measurable actions so that the result of our sessions could be applied and evaluated.”

    Richard W. Corey, Former Executive Officer, CARB

  • "I highly recommend Tara for leadership coaching. Tara helped me ground my vision with practical strategies and effective tools for implementation. And she helped me identify both strengths and opportunities for development, then worked closely with me to outline actionable steps for growing my program.”

    Sarah Rubin, Deputy Director, DOC

  • "Leadership coaching with Tara provided me key tools to help me work smarter, not harder in my life. The tailored, one-on-one sessions were key in identifying habits and mindsets that needed to be changed. I am a better leader, manager, and person from this experience.”

    Sandy Louey, Manager, CA Energy Commission

  • “Tara’s coaching is outstanding. She provides tools, insights, and perspectives that help me address real-time issues – and their underlying causes. Tara does all this in an encouraging, yet challenging way that make the sessions extremely productive and worthwhile.”

    Jack Kitowski, Former Division Chief, CARB

  • “My coaching work with Tara over the course of a year was transformative for me and my executive team. Tara created the environment that allowed us to lean into uncomfortable issues and territory, but with scaffolding and boundaries that promoted a safe, honest, and real space within which to work.”

    Matt St. John, Former Executive Officer, North Coast RWQCB

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