Amplifying Leadership

In this episode, Tara is joined by Maria Maldonaldo Smith, the Chief Empowerment Officer of MMSConsulting and creator of the Executive Vision Imagery program, as they discuss all about goal setting. Learning from the foundations to today, building good habits for goals, the why behind the goal, how follow up is important, to a process to setting goals. Enjoy the episode!

Join Tara and Laura Aiken, a Resilience Specialist and consultant at Thrive Leadership, as they discuss the challenges of feeling like an outsider, being a balanced and resilient leader, balancing being direct and emotional through self-reflection all while being authentic yet adaptable. We also have a couple tools for communication and stress to share too. Enjoy the show!

Brainstorming is a common way to find various solutions to a problem or to achieve a goal. However, have you ever tried reversing it and coming up with ways to make the problem worse or all the ways to not meet your goal? Tara covers what Reverse Brainstorming is and how it can benefit organizations in this short Tip Thursday with Tara.

Join Tara and Jennifer Redden, who works within the realm of Quantum Visionary Leadership, as they discuss climbing a corporate ladder to self-leadership, taking action, going from burn out to nurturing our self-leadership and embracing our unique gifts as leaders. She also shares 3 easy tips to help with you are feeling stressed at work as part of self-care.

Team building is not just for when you do exercises with your group of employees, but for you as a leader as well. In this episode of Amplifying Leadership's Tip Thursday with Tara, Tara reviews why it is important for leaders to do their own team building together and having fun with it too!

In this episode, Tara welcomes Christina Flach, a world-renowned celebrity makeup artist with experience working with celebrity clientele, magazines, and big-name brands. She has been featured in Vogue, People, Time, and Elle, as well as campaigns for Gucci, Nordstrom, Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Macy's, and Bloomingdales among others, as we discuss all things leadership. We touch on some ke...

Mistakes happen and we need to create a space for that as leaders. Why? Find out in this week's Tip Thursday with Tara, along with a couple tips too! Enjoy the episode.

Join Tara in a conversation about Innovative Leadership with Dave Castro, an entrepreneur and creator of the IceBrekr app, Dave seeks to empower people to meet key new connections on their own terms wherever their ideal kind of people gather. We discuss what it means to be an innovative leaders, being curious and seeing a vision, to listening and taking things in without judgement. We also touch o...

In this short episode, Tara discusses when leaders should not only considering being a mentor, but the importance around Reverse Mentorship (leaders seeking advice from those newer to the company or younger then they are). Let's learn, grown and develop to be great leaders through both mentorship and reverse mentorship.

In this episode, Tara and Olivia Smith, a Transformation Expert, founder of Write a New Story and also a Professional Coach, discuss how leaders can ensure they hire the right team. We review tips and tools for new and seasoned leaders, to why job descriptions and assessments are very important. Enjoy!

In this episode, Tara uncovers why we should train everyone on key leadership skills such as communication, collaboration, inclusion, or good conflict. Enjoy

This episode, Tara and Michael Allison, an executive business consultant, personal growth coach, and career/professional development expert, as well as a Purple Heart Combat Veteran, explore what is needed in professional development to move from one industry and type of leadership to another. We discuss personal development, EQ, empowering employees, creating vision, to building rapport and trust...

There are times when leaders need to be disrupters too. In this Tip Thursday with Tara, Tara goes into why leaders may need to challenge the status quo and also provides some tips and ideas around this. Enjoy!

In this episode, Tara is joined by DeLinda Forsythe, a retired CEO, a storyteller, and In the fall 2023 she was also named San Diego Business Women of the Year lifetime achievement. This episode covers the ins and outs of cross-generational mentorship as a leader from understanding the different generations, building effective cultures including how to be an intrapreneur and building resilience. T...

Staying focused as a leader can be difficult with all the distractions around us. In this Tip Thursday with Tara, she shared some tips and tricks that work for her, when she needs some dedicated focused time that you can also teach your employees. Enjoy!

Join Tara and Neil Rogers, author of Bar Tips: Everything I Needed to Know In Sales I learned From Behind the Bar, as we uncover how so many tools in sales, can lead to great leadership. We discuss listening, taking ownership, communication, growth, self-leadership, vision, and building relationships. Enjoy!

In this Tip Thursday with Tara, Tara gives some tips on how to deal with those challenges, barriers, issues, concerns, or other "stuff" that can come in your way. This may or may not involve your team or leadership team. Enjoy the tips!

This episode with Nicole Majik, an accomplished leadership and empowerment strategist and educator, and Tara covers the benefits of strong teams. This comes from change management, understanding what team members want, helping reduce burnout, boosting employee morale and culture, communications, and Nicole's 3 things everyone needs. Enjoy!

In this Tip Thursday with Tara episode, Tara provides a few tips on how to help your team manage priorities when everything feels like one and was due "yesterday". Enjoy this episode!

Join Tara and Lexi Godlewski, who helps leaders experience the richness of life as a soultrepreneur, engage in a great conversation around people-centered leadership, leveraging the unique talents of ourselves and our employees by thinking differently. We also touch on mentorship, communication, being open to ideas, and learning within this episode.

Being part of the team as a leader is more than just training them, coaching them, or doing higher level work. In this Tip Thursday with Tara episode, Tara explains why learning what your employee do by shadowing or actually doing the work, can not only build trust but help you and your leadership. Enjoy the episode!

Join Tara and Therese Gopaul-Robinson a healthcare consultant specializing in Change Management, Training, & Leadership Development, and a keynote speaker, as they delve into how female leaders have unique challenges, overcoming doubt with confidence, the 3 buckets of what we Bring, Receive, and Project. Therese also talks about the Glass Cliff and the Broken Rung.

In this Tip Thursday with Tara episode, Tara explores a couple tips around leading with integrity including: being consistent, honest, transparent, safety, and how you use your words or actions around discipline. Enjoy the episode!

In this engaging episode, Tara and David Kitchen who is a speaker and a consultant through Edge Leadership Academy, delve into his 5C's of leadership; Character, Consistency, Commitment, Creativity, and Communication. We talk about leaders being built not born, taking initiative and courage to growth, as well as the 70-25-5 rule to leadership growth.

Join and engaging conversation in this episode, with Tara and Tom Hubler - an author, professional speaker and owner of Hubler for Business Families. The discussion covers embracing feedback, mentorship, EQ and IQ, communicating within family owned businesses, gratitude, and even listening without judgement.