Having 2 kids can change a woman on the path of climbing the corporate ladder. Tara Renze, former Sales Leader and online business owner turned Emotional Intelligence expert will share with us some great insights on how she managed her professional life with her personal life as she built a side hustle that led to her down the path to her current business.

Tara Renze is an emotional intelligence practitioner, entrepreneur, speaker, inspirer, blogger, thought-leader, wife and mother and is redefining how we unleash purpose, level up our success and create sustainable happiness and fulfillment in all aspects of our lives. After two decades of success in corporate leadership and social selling, she started training, speaking, coaching and co-founded authentiCITY to share her passions and help others live the life they desire, envision and deserve. Tara has a true passion and talent for guiding others to harness and realize their full potential. 

Through social media, seminars, insights and writings, she helps her audience become the best version of themselves, achieve unlimited success, live fulfilled and pursue their passions. Tara takes a new and refreshing approach to helping others find purpose and be who they came to be. She combines her expertise in emotional intelligence, success in corporate leadership and experience social sales along with her roles as a wife and a mother to offer her audience an experience and a message that are sincere, motivating, relatable and game changing.

Tara is recognized as an inspirational leader and top achiever. At CareerBuilder.com, she was celebrated as a top national sales leader as she built and led two multi-million-dollar sales teams, facilitated national trainings and provided leadership consulting to sales teams across the country. She left the corporate world to raise her two boys and successfully built a nationwide, multi-million-dollar social selling business with Stella & Dot, a San Francisco-based boutique-style accessories company offering flexible entrepreneurship for women. 

In 2018 Tara co-Founded authentiCITY with Amanda Thompson. authentiCITY is Tara’s passion project to help women redefine what success looks like for the modern-day female entrepreneur. Tara is a frequent keynote speaker and trainer at local and national conferences and seminars. 

She is also a passionate supporter of Susan G. Komen and breast cancer awareness. Her mother, mother in law, sister in law and aunt are all breast cancer survivors. 

Tara is an emotional-intelligence expert certified through OKA-Online. She graduated from the University of Kansas and has studied leadership at the Wharton School of Business, The University of Chicago and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management. 

Her favorite titles in life are wife to Scott, mom to Ben and Jack, daughter, sister and friend. Her dog, Olive, is by far her biggest fan.