Senior Client Partner, Culture, Change & Communications
Tamara has worked at the intersection of communications, HR and marketing for more than two decades, helping leaders inspire movements and behavior change at scale.
Tamara has a global outlook, having led engagements spanning every time zone and being embedded in client operations from European HQs to Australian mining camps.
Her expertise is as varied as her clients and their challenges, including employee value proposition development, culture transformation, purpose/mission/values definition and corporate communications functional effectiveness.
Tamara is a certified executive coach who helps leaders communicate strategy with clarity and conviction, define their own brand and bring it to life via thought leadership and strategic stakeholder engagement.
Examples include doubling followership for a Top 5 global tech firm’s chief talent officer and landing his first-ever Fast Company feature; and coaching a CEO succession candidate at a Fortune 500 industrial company to convey a compelling strategic vision to the Board and ultimately earn the CEO appointment.
Tamara has spearheaded communications for some of history’s highest-profile material events: the world’s largest merger of 2009 between two top life sciences rivals; one of the most contentious global hostile takeovers of all time in a deal that led to sweeping M&A reforms; and a CEO’s harrowing first year at a Top 5 global airline after a tumultuous merger and deep employee mistrust. That airline subsequently delivered its best customer performance since the acquisition, and the CEO later detailed the communications campaign in his 2023 bestseller.
Tamara joined Korn Ferry in 2021 from Edelman, the world’s largest communications firm. As a senior leader with the agency’s Employee Experience practice for more than 15 years, she led hundreds of client engagements, earning top-tier awards for organizational and executive communications.
Before that, Tamara was a global communications specialist at Whirlpool Corporation. She started her career as a reporter at the Herald-Palladium in St. Joseph, Mich.
Tamara graduated summa cum laude on full academic scholarship from Western Michigan University with a B.A. in public relations and a Spanish minor. She earned her graduate coaching certificate through UC Berkeley.
