Tara Renze
High performers burn out, hide, or coast long before their organisations notice. The gap is rarely capability. It is the quiet erosion of confidence, focus and authenticity that follows sustained pressure, and the absence of any honest internal language for naming it. Teams that cannot have that conversation lose their best people slowly, then all at once.
Tara Renze is an emotional intelligence and positive intelligence practitioner who helps sales organisations and women’s leadership audiences turn personal authenticity into measurable performance.
Full Profile
Why organisations work with Tara Renze
- Twenty years inside CareerBuilder and Stella & Dot give her a sales-floor credibility that few EQ speakers carry. She has run the number, trained the new hires, and built a multi-million-dollar book of business before stepping onto the stage.
- She works in the practical intersection of Shirzad Chamine’s Positive Intelligence and applied emotional intelligence, translating both into language that revenue teams and women’s networks will sit through, take notes on, and act on.
- Her core framework, “Be Who You Came To Be”, is a trademarked through-line across keynote, workshop and book, which gives client teams a shared vocabulary that survives past the event.
- Repeat work from operationally serious clients including T-Mobile, Pfizer, Aflac, Amazon, Shaw Industries and Women’s Foodservice Forum, not only inspiration-circuit buyers.
Biography highlights
- Author, Be Who You Came To Be, published by Amplify Publishing Group (second edition).
- Host, Be Who You Came To Be podcast.
- Certified practitioner in Emotional Intelligence and Shirzad Chamine’s Positive Intelligence methodology.
- Former Sales Leader of the Year at CareerBuilder.com; led the company’s national new hire sales training programme.
- Founder of a multi-million-dollar nationwide social selling business with Stella & Dot.
- Degree from the University of Kansas; executive leadership studies at the Wharton School and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Biography
A sales floor is one of the more honest places in a corporation. The number is the number, the pipeline is the pipeline, and the people carrying the quota tell you quickly whether the culture, the leadership and the personal motivation are real. That environment is where Tara Renze spent two decades before she ever called herself a speaker, first as Sales Leader of the Year at CareerBuilder.com, then as the founder of a multi-million-dollar national social selling business with Stella & Dot.
She moved into the emotional intelligence and positive intelligence space with that operating background still attached. Her practitioner work draws on the EQ tradition and on Shirzad Chamine’s Positive Intelligence methodology, which she applies to the specific tensions she watched up close for twenty years: high performers who lose their edge, women leaders who hide their ambition, sales teams whose self-talk eats their pipeline.
The frame she has built around this work, “Be Who You Came To Be”, anchors a book published by Amplify Publishing Group, a podcast of the same name, and the keynote and workshop programme she takes into clients including T-Mobile, Pfizer, Aflac, Amazon, Shaw Industries and Women’s Foodservice Forum. The through-line is consistent. Authenticity is treated as a performance variable, not a wellness slogan, and mental fitness is taught as a learnable discipline with practical tools that a sales manager or a CHRO can actually deploy on Monday morning.
What clients tend to book her for is the combination buyers struggle to assemble otherwise: a speaker who can hold the room on confidence, self-leadership and EQ, who has also personally carried a quota, run a sales training programme and built a national business.
Key speaking topics
- Emotional intelligence in commercial environments
- Positive intelligence and mental fitness
- Authentic leadership for women
- Sales leadership and seller mindset
- Self-sabotage and saboteur patterns at work
- Culture, engagement and team performance
Ideal for
- Chief Revenue Officers and sales leadership teams running enterprise sales kick-offs.
- CHROs and L&D leaders designing manager development and women’s leadership programming.
- Direct-selling and field-force organisations where individual mindset determines revenue.
- Industry associations and women’s networks (Women’s Foodservice Forum profile) seeking a keynote that holds an executive room.
Audience outcomes
- A working vocabulary for the internal patterns (self-doubt, saboteur voices, performance anxiety) that quietly degrade individual and team results.
- Specific Positive Intelligence techniques for interrupting those patterns in real working conditions.
- A practical reframe of authenticity as a performance discipline, not a personality trait or a wellness extra.
- A shared language across a team or sales force that survives past the event and can be reinforced by managers.
Talks
A keynote built around Tara’s signature framework, applying authenticity and self-leadership to professional performance and career direction.
Key takeaways:
- The cost of operating in a borrowed identity at work
- How to identify and interrupt internal saboteurs
- Practical steps for aligning personal values with professional decisions
A Positive Intelligence based session on mental fitness as a learnable discipline for high performers.
Key takeaways:
- The mechanics of saboteur thinking and how it shows up under pressure
- PQ techniques for shifting state in real working conditions
- How mental fitness translates into commercial and leadership outcomes
A leadership keynote translating emotional intelligence into the practical behaviours that distinguish high-trust managers.
Key takeaways:
- Where EQ shows up in everyday management decisions
- How to lead through change without performing certainty
- Building team conditions for honest performance conversations