Tangie Newborn
Tangie Newborn is a seasoned executive coach, consultant, and thought leader dedicated to helping individuals and organizations unlock purpose and achieve meaningful transformation. After a successful career as a nonprofit and association executive, she made a bold transition into full-time coaching, driven by a desire to create a life aligned with freedom, impact, and intention. Today, as the founder of Immense Business Solutions, LLC, she works with mid-career professionals, executives, and individuals approaching retirement to help them gain clarity, redefine their goals, and design lives they genuinely love.
With more than two decades of experience leading her own consulting practice and over 12 years in coaching, Tangie brings a wealth of expertise in leadership development, public relations, organizational management, and strategic growth. She has worked extensively with nonprofits and associations, offering services such as grant writing, board and staff training, and operational consulting. Known for her ability to build strong relationships and deliver results, she is frequently sought after as a speaker and advisor, guiding leaders and teams toward sustainable success and greater impact.
At the heart of Tangie’s work is a deeply personal philosophy: helping people “live the life they love and love the life they live.” She empowers her clients to move beyond simply chasing jobs and instead pursue careers and lifestyles rooted in passion, purpose, and intentional living. Through her coaching, speaking, and writing, she continues to inspire transformation at every stage of life, encouraging others to embrace change, trust their journey, and step confidently into their next chapter.
• Life Coaching Certification
• Training Certification
• DEI Certification
• IMC Montessori Certification
• Certified Diversity Executive
• University of Maryland
• University of South Florida Muma College of Business
• Best Practice Leader and Organizational Diversity Award from Center for Social Leadership
• Society of Nonprofit Organizations
• Center for Survivor Agency and Justice
• Grant Professionals Association
• American Society of Association Executives
• Center for Survivor Agency and Justice
• Society for Nonprofits
• ASAE: The Center for Association Leadership
• National Center for Black Philanthropy, Inc.
What do you attribute your success to?
I have to say, I would attribute my success to the leaders that I actually had an opportunity to work under. I was inspired especially by the women leaders I had to work for - they were very inspirational in growing my career, pushing me in my career, and giving me those opportunities to actually advance. I'll tell you, one of the presidents and CEO of the American Medical Women's Association that I worked for had promoted me to deputy under her as number two, and one of the things she had said to me was that, you're ready to actually lead a nonprofit. And the only thing you need to do now is to work on the full gamut of financial management and people management and those kind of things. So she put me in that position as her number two to push me to actually move forward and go for that top position. And it worked.
What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice I've ever received was to think like a tree. Or be like a tree, sorry - to be like a tree. Stay grounded and connected to your roots.
What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I would say my advice would be, look at opening doors to living your best life. Look at opening doors to your... to living your best life.
What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
I'd say the biggest opportunities and challenges in my field are really change. I would say change, the way the world is changing, and the needs of people are changing. It has a two-edged sword, or half-glass-full, half glass empty feel to it, because there are opportunities for people to make change and to do things differently. But then there are also the downside of people being forced to change. And so, when they are forced to change, the decisions that they make sometimes become desperate or harder to make. I'm talking about how AI and technology is starting to take over, so it's affecting people differently, especially older people. My generation especially, the baby boomers, we've grown along with the world wide web and cell phones and those kind of things, but this whole new way of doing things from an AI perspective is really becoming challenging. I even heard the other day a lawyer saying that AI was affecting lawyers today, because more people are leaning towards that for their advice versus coming in and talking to a lawyer and getting the real legal advice. I think the way technology is changing the world, it's really becoming challenging for everyone in every career that they have, no matter what you're doing. That rapid change is really changing people, and then so it makes it challenging for how you help people grow in that area.
What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
My values in my personal and work life are definitely empathy for people, honesty, of course, and actually pouring into people. I'm big into pouring into people and being there to coach and help them along, and really help them build their own skills and give back to them what was given to me.