Her Story
About Tamala
I am more than a career woman. I represent the modern, influential woman. I'm accomplished, but approachable. Strategic, yet nurturing, professional, while deeply grounded in faith and service. My gift is to help professionals reposition themselves confidently in competitive industries, help women rediscover their value and visibility, help children grow academically and spiritually, help ministries strengthen their outreach and impact, help organizations communicate change effectively, and help communities rally together around purpose-driven initiatives. My work consistently reflects one message: You are not stuck where you are. Growth is possible. This message resonates because I live it myself. I know the power of reinvention. One of my greatest strengths is my willingness to evolve. Many people strain when life changes, but I adapt, I learn, I build, and I rise. From leadership in education and ministry to consulting, branding, communication strategy, and coaching, I continue to expand my impact by encouraging others to do the same. I especially inspire women who may feel overlooked, underestimated, or uncertain about their next chapter. I remind them that wisdom still matters, experience still matters, faith still matters, and purpose does not expire but grows higher with age. Real influence is not loud, it is consistent. It is the late nights preparing lessons, the encouraging phone calls, the carefully written words that help someone land a job, the prayers spoken over families and children, the vision to create opportunities where none existed before. My influence comes from service. I pour into others because I genuinely want people to win. This kind of leadership cannot be manufactured. People feel it, communities remember it, lives are changed by it.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Tamala
01What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to just having a strong-willed mom. I have 4 beautiful, wonderful sisters who are very supportive, and I attribute that to my whole upbringing. I was brought up by a woman who thrived with excellence. Everything was excellent. And it wasn't like her hammering over your head, but she trained us, you know, in a sense, she prepared us for what's to come, but she did it with excellence. So I have to attribute that to my mom and my sisters.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice I ever received was to do it afraid. Take the risk. And you know, if you feel like that's where you should do and be, then go for it. Go after it, because you're gonna regret not even taking the chance. I am a risk taker, and that's probably why I have such a broad background, because I just took the chance on myself. Sometimes you gotta take a chance on yourself and believe that you can do it. That was some career advice from some of my own mentors that I was given.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
The advice that I would give to women is, one, never stop learning. Never stop asking questions. And strive to thrive with excellence, but it's okay to mess up. Just get back up. Don't stay down there, you know? We all, when you err, there is room for success. Success is failure turned inside out. So you sometimes need to fail at some things in order to become successful. You know, that's what builds strength.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Currently, I think one of the challenges, and this is something I'm working on to really have a workshop about, is that because I am older, sometimes businesses write me off. As you start to age, society says you're old or you're of age or however they want to call it, but there's more to give, you know. That's one of the challenges. It's amazing how, as you get older, you have the wisdom. But nowadays, because you have all of this technology and you have younger folks coming in that they know more than you do, and I don't take anything away from them because they are very innovative, but wisdom stands the test of time. As Solomon said in the Bible, nothing is new under the sun. So that's wisdom. That's the challenge, you know, that you have to get past. Sometimes people are like, I'm not finished yet. Don't let the age fool you.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
My values in work and personal life are building relationships and building that trust in order to have a relationship. I feel like trust is very important, personally as well as professionally. If I can't trust you, then we can't really grow. And just that transparency and that trust and transparency build trust, and I can open up, and we can respect each other after we discuss whatever it is we have to, but that is what I would say.
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