Tamara’s passion is advising purpose-based enterprises and leaders that are facing complex problems as they navigate their way to making an even greater positive impact on society. She achieves this through focusing on leadership capacity building, strategy, human-centred design, and collaboration.

Tamara has spent the last 8 years working in the not-for-profit sector, most significantly as the CEO of Shalom. Shalom is an education & community innovation incubator and provider. It runs a UNSW university residential college and innovative community programs. She was responsible for transforming the organisation to focus on emerging target customer needs, impact and sustainability and implemented significant growth/change while managing substantial risk. More recently Tamara’s portfolio career has included working as a mentor, coach and consultant as part of the Social Impact Hub’s Professional Impact Network, working with UNSW’s Australian Graduate School of Management with MBA students and alumni as an executive and career coach and building her private corporate focused coaching and consulting organisation.

Tamara spent over 25 years in the corporate world across consumer goods/services, financial services and airlines. Tamara unique background of both strategy management consulting and operational leadership roles allows her to understand what strategy can be implemented and how. She is known for her strong strategic thinking, problem solving, commercial acumen and customer centric focus.

Tamara is a member of Australian Institute of Company Directors, has certification from the Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership, is in an accredited Strengths Profile practioner and has a Bachelor of Commerce with a major in marketing and human resource management.

In her spare time Tamara loves hanging out with her 4 teenagers and partner, surrounding herself in nature, practising Japanese yoga and being involved in her local community.