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Tara Renze

Keynote Speaker

Keynote Speaker; Emotional Intelligence Expert; Author

High-energy keynotes and transformational workshops that ignite confidence, break self-sabotage, and inspire ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

 

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Tara Renze is an author, keynote speaker, and emotional intelligence & positive intelligence practitioner who inspires ordinary people to do extraordinary things—by stepping into their confidence, breaking free from self-sabotaging beliefs, and fully owning who they came to be—personally and professionally.

Through her career, Tara discovered that the most successful, fulfilled, and innovative people all shared one defining trait – the emotional intelligence IT factor. It wasn’t talent, luck, or confidence alone. It was emotional intelligence: deep self-awareness, strong self-regard, and the ability to elevate others. Tara now teaches audiences how to develop that same IT factor—unlocking confidence, creativity, and performance while empowering those around them to rise.

Known for her relatable storytelling, high energy, and science-backed insights, Tara delivers keynotes that are memorable, actionable, and deeply human. Her message doesn’t end when the event does—audiences are still talking about it months later as they apply what they learned at work and in life.

Tara is also a podcaster, thought leader, wife, and mother, bringing warmth, credibility, and real-world perspective to every stage she steps on.

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Tara Renze – Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable – OWN IT

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Tara Renze – Turning a Setback Into a Comeback

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Tara Renze: You Didn’t Come To Be THEM – You Came To Be YOU

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Tara Renze: Get Mentally Fit – Emotional and Positive Intelligence

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Tara Renze: Own Your Authenticity – Replace Comparison with Admiration

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Tara Renze: Ordinary is Extraordinary – EQ Secrets to Level Up Your Leadership

Tara Renze’s Speech Topics

  • Get Mentally Fit Workshop

    Your thoughts can be your greatest advantage—or your biggest obstacle. Mental fitness is the foundation of resilience, leadership, and success. This immersive, interactive workshop expands on the Get Mentally Fit keynote, diving deeper into the science of Positive Intelligence (PQ) and emotional intelligence (EQ) to help participants rewire their thinking, eliminate self-sabotage, and strengthen their mindset for peak performance.


    By understanding and conquering their inner saboteurs, attendees will develop the skills to reduce stress, increase focus, and show up as their best selves in work and life.


    Key Learning Objectives & Takeaways:

    • Understand the Power of Emotional & Positive Intelligence – Learn how EQ and PQ impact leadership, retention, and overall job satisfaction.
    • Identify and Eliminate Your Mental Saboteurs – Recognize the self-sabotaging thought patterns that hold you back and replace them with empowering strategies.
    • Unlock Your Positive Intelligence Score (PQ) – Discover how to shift from negative thinking to a mentally fit, high-performing mindset.
    • Fulfillment vs. Happiness – Why fulfillment is the real driver of success and how to cultivate it.
    • Eliminate Unrealistic Comparisons – Elevate authenticity and confidence to improve overall job satisfaction.
    • Master Fear & Risk-Taking – Deconstruct fear, embrace change, and step into growth.
    • Self-Assess to Self-Actualize – Implement a system for continuous personal and professional development.
    • Develop a Personal PQ Roadmap – Create a step-by-step plan to strengthen mental fitness and eliminate self-doubt.


    Who This Workshop Is For: The modern workforce constantly wrestles with the balance of career, family, personal growth, and fulfillment. This workshop provides actionable solutions to some of the most pressing questions professionals ask themselves:


    How do I make an impact and grow within my organization?

    How do I navigate change, stress, or self-doubt? How can I be successful at work and at home?

    How do I stop sabotaging myself?

    How do I build sustainable happiness and fulfillment?


    By increasing mental and emotional fitness, attendees will reduce stress, increase engagement, and perform at their peak—all while honoring who they came to be.


    Workshop Format & Experience: This workshop is a deep dive that expands on the Get Mentally Fit keynote and includes

    • A Custom Workbook – Attendees will use this during the workshop and take it with them for continued learning. Virtual attendees receive a printable PDF.
    • Three Team Breakout Sessions – Facilitated exercises focused on self-discovery, actionable takeaways, team building, and group sharing.
    • One Individual Breakout Session – Guided time to develop a personal PQ roadmap to get and stay mentally fit.
    • Pre-Workshop Positive Intelligence Assessment – All attendees will receive a FREE PQ assessment to take before the session, providing valuable insights into their mental fitness and self-sabotaging patterns.
  • The Secrets to Level Up Your Leadership Workshop – 90 Minutes to Half Day

    *This workshop is designed to meet CE credit requirements for leadership development, workplace engagement, and emotional intelligence training.


    Authentic leadership is the foundation for driving results, fostering innovation, and creating a culture of trust and engagement. At its core, authentic leadership is rooted in emotional intelligence (EQ)—the ability to understand and manage emotions while inspiring and empowering others. The best leaders are self-aware, adaptable, and intentional about their impact, fueling success by building high-performing, emotionally intelligent teams.


    But how do leaders create an environment where teams feel valued, inspired, and empowered to grow, change, and evolve within an organization?


    After two decades in corporate leadership and sales, Tara Renze developed this high-impact workshop to share the game-changing leadership secrets she has mastered along the way. This session goes beyond theory—it’s practical, engaging, and designed for immediate impact. Since no two organizations are alike, each workshop is fully customized to ensure participants walk away with relevant, high-impact strategies that can be immediately applied to their roles and teams.


    A Sneak Peek at Tara’s Leadership Secrets:

    Tara pulls from 20 powerful leadership secrets designed to elevate leaders, strengthen emotional intelligence, and transform culture. Some of the secrets explored in this workshop include:


    • Use a Clear Mirror to Self-Assess – Cultivate radical self-awareness and take ownership of your success.
    • Get Mentally Fit: Strengthen Your Positive Intelligence – Identify and quiet self-sabotaging thoughts that limit performance.
    • Leadership Isn’t About You – The best leaders don’t focus on their own greatness; they bring out the best in others. Using lessons from basketball coaching, learn how to develop a team culture that creates raving fans.
    • Managing Team Culture: The Thermostat Approach – Leaders aren’t thermometers, reacting to the environment; they are thermostats, setting and maintaining a consistent tone that fosters trust, engagement, and long-term success. Learn how to lead with consistency, composure, and a commitment to leaving people better than you found them.
    • Never Complain Down – Master the art of leading with confidence and composure, even in difficult situations.
    • The ACE Method for Conflict Resolution – Assume a misunderstanding, Collaborate, and Extinguish tension to create win-win outcomes.
    • Assertiveness & The Big Ask: Responding Intellectually vs. Emotionally – Master the art of assertiveness, communication, and strategic influence.
    • The Power of LOVE in Leadership – Shift from transactional leadership to transformational leadership by leading with L.O.V.E.: Listen, Observe, Validate, Empower.


    Learning Activities: Participants will receive a comprehensive, downloadable workbook featuring.


    • Fulfillment Inventory – Personal and professional assessment to align purpose and performance.
    • Comparison Inventory & Admiration Shift Exercise – Move from unhealthy comparison to inspired admiration.
    • Nostalgia & Assumed Constraints Questionnaire – Identify and overcome limiting beliefs.
    • Butterfly Goals & Invitational Fear/Risks Bucket List – Take bold, strategic action toward big goals.
    • Clear Mirror Self-Assessment Worksheet – Gain clarity on strengths and growth areas.
    • 1-5-10 Year LIVE IT Plan – Create a roadmap for personal and professional success.
    • 14-Day Emotional Intelligence Challenge – Daily strategies to strengthen self-awareness, adaptability, and mindset.
    • Mindset Shift Tracker: “You Are Not Your Thoughts” – A tool to help reframe negative thoughts and build mental fitness.
    • Big Goals Tracker: “No Playing Small” – A system for setting and tracking ambitious, transformative goals.
    • Positive Intelligence Saboteur Assessment & Report – Delivered to participants’ inboxes to identify self-sabotaging thought patterns.
  • The Butterfly Goal Effect™

    Ignite growth. Strengthen culture. Transform potential into performance.


    When individuals stretch themselves, organizations soar. This inspiring keynote reveals how setting Butterfly Goals—bold, purpose-driven goals that push beyond comfort zones—creates ripple effects of innovation, fulfillment, and success. Tara Renze blends emotional intelligence, neuroscience, and storytelling to show audiences how personal growth fuels professional transformation in an AI-driven world.


    Get ready to watch your organization take flight as each individual leaves not just motivated but equipped with a plan for personal transformation—ready to create, own, and live their next chapter.


    Create It – Discover the science behind transformational goals and why growth fuels fulfillment.

    Own It – Strengthen mental fitness to overcome fear, opposition, and self-doubt.

    Live It – Choose fulfillment over happiness, turn setbacks into comebacks, and keep evolving.


    Includes a customized digital workbook for continued learning.

  • Be Who You Came To Be™ – Create, Own & Live the Life you Deserve & Desire

    Authenticity doesn’t just transform individuals—it drives results for teams, organizations, and cultures. When people embrace their unique strengths and show up as their best selves, they unlock potential, ignite innovation, and foster meaningful connections that elevate performance and purpose.


    At the heart of this transformation is emotional intelligence and mental fitness, and the ability to recognize that you are not your thoughts—you are how you choose to show up. With 80% of our daily thoughts being negative, repetitive, and often biased, the ability to shift from limiting narratives to empowering ones is a game-changer.


    In this session, you’ll learn how to harness emotional intelligence (EQ) to recognize and reframe those thoughts, quiet the inner critic, and lead with clarity and confidence. When you build mental fitness and tap into the power of EQ, you unlock a level of potential that impacts every aspect of life—personally and professionally.


    Through Tara’s inspiring stories and actionable insights, you’ll discover how to:

    • Strengthen mental fitness and master the power of shifting your perspective.
    • Redefine success by prioritizing fulfillment over fleeting happiness.
    • Ignite resilience and embrace challenges as opportunities for growth.
    • Replace comparison with confidence and fully own your authenticity.
    • Self-assess with clarity, take bold action, and own your success.
    • Take bold, strategic risks to achieve big goals and create a life of purpose, impact, and lasting success.


    You’ll walk away ready to create, own, and live the life you deserve and desire:

    Create: Redefine success by focusing on fulfillment over fleeting happiness, giving yourself permission to grow, evolve, and embrace change with resilience and tenacity. Shift from transactional achievements to transformational impact.

    Own: Overcome self-limiting beliefs, eliminate guilt and comparison, and take control of your narrative to step into your true potential through self-assessment and clarity.

    Live: Achieve peak performance by taking bold, strategic risks, setting big goals, and taking massive action to create a life of purpose, authenticity, and impact.


    Tara’s powerful keynote will leave you motivated, empowered, and ready to be who you came to be—while making a lasting impact on your life, team, and organization.


    Beyond the Keynote: Tools & Takeaways

    This keynote includes a customized digital workbook featuring actionable exercises and strategies to continue building mental fitness long after the event, including:


    • Positive Intelligence Saboteur Assessment & Report – Identify and eliminate self-sabotaging thought patterns
    • Mindset Shift Tracker: “You Are Not Your Thoughts” – Learn to reframe negative thoughts and build mental fitness
    • Big Goals Tracker: “No Playing Small” – Set and track ambitious, transformative goals
    • 14-Day Mental Fitness Challenge – Daily practices to strengthen mindset and resilience


    Tara’s engaging, no-fluff approach ensures audiences walk away empowered, energized, and equipped to train their minds like they train their bodies—because success starts in the mind.

  • The Secrets to Level Up Your Leadership Workshop

    Elevate Your Leadership, Strengthen Emotional Intelligence, Transform Team Culture, and Drive Sustainable Success


    (Available as 90 minutes – half-day workshop)


    Authentic leadership is the foundation for driving results, fostering innovation, and creating a culture of trust and engagement. At its core, authentic leadership is rooted in emotional intelligence (EQ)—the ability to understand and manage emotions while inspiring and empowering others. The best leaders are self-aware, adaptable, and intentional about their impact, fueling success by building high-performing, emotionally intelligent teams.

    But how do leaders create an environment where teams feel valued, inspired, and empowered to grow, change, and evolve within an organization?


    After two decades in corporate leadership and sales, Tara Renze developed this high-impact workshop to share the game-changing leadership secrets she has mastered along the way. This session goes beyond theory—it’s practical, engaging, and designed for immediate impact.


    Since no two organizations are alike, each workshop is fully customized to ensure participants walk away with relevant, high-impact strategies that can be immediately applied to their roles and teams.

  • The EQ Secrets to Level Up Your Leadership

    Elevate Your Leadership, Strengthen Emotional Intelligence, Transform Team Culture, and Drive Sustainable Success.

    Authentic leadership is the foundation for driving results, fostering innovation, and creating a culture of trust and engagement. At its core, leadership is about emotional intelligence (EQ), self-awareness, adaptability, and the ability to bring out the best in others. Great leaders don’t just focus on their own success—they create teams, cultures, and environments where success is inevitable.


    After two decades in corporate leadership and sales, Tara Renze developed this high-energy, transformational keynote to share the game-changing leadership secrets she has mastered along the way. This session goes beyond motivation—it’s practical, engaging, and designed for immediate impact.


    Since no two organizations are alike, each keynote is fully customized to meet the specific needs of the audience.


    A Sneak Peek at Tara’s Leadership Secrets

    Drawing from over 20 powerful leadership strategies, Tara customizes each keynote to deliver the 7-10 secrets that best fit the audience’s challenges and goals. These high-impact insights help leaders elevate their leadership, strengthen EQ, and build thriving cultures.


    Some of the topics explored in this keynote include:

    • Leadership Isn’t About You – The best leaders focus on bringing out the best in their teams, not just themselves.
    • The Thermostat Approach to Culture – Set the tone, stay consistent, and create an environment where people thrive.
    • The ACE Method for Conflict Resolution – Assume a misunderstanding, Collaborate, and Extinguish tension for win-win outcomes.
    • The Power of LOVE in Leadership – Lead with L.O.V.E.: Listen, Observe, Validate, Empower to inspire and connect.
    • Get Mentally Fit – Strengthen resilience and eliminate self-sabotaging thoughts that limit leadership potential.


    Beyond the Keynote: Tools & Takeaways

    Each keynote includes a customized digital workbook featuring key exercises, mindset shifts, and leadership strategies designed for immediate application. Attendees will receive tools to:

    • Identify and overcome self-limiting beliefs
    • Strengthen confidence and leadership impact
    • Set bold goals and take strategic action
    • Elevate emotional intelligence and self-awareness


    Tara’s dynamic, no-fluff approach leaves audiences inspired, empowered, and ready to lead at the next level.

  • Get Mentally Fit – Master Your Mind. Own Your Potential

    Your thoughts can be your biggest obstacle—or your greatest advantage. Mental fitness is the foundation of peak performance, resilience, and success. In this high-impact keynote, Tara Renze dives deep into the science of Positive Intelligence (PQ) to help individuals and teams rewire their thinking, break free from self-doubt, and eliminate the mental saboteurs that hold them back. When you master your mind, you take full ownership of your success, leadership, and fulfillment—both personally and professionally.


    Using her Create It, Own It, Live It framework, Tara will guide audiences through the mindset shifts and emotional intelligence strategies necessary to build mental resilience, amplify confidence, and unlock their full potential.


    Create It – Shift Your Mindset & Build Mental Resilience

    • Recognize the power of your thoughts and how they shape your reality
    • Identify the mental saboteurs that create self-doubt, fear, and inaction
    • Rewire your brain by strengthening your Positive Intelligence (PQ) muscles
    • Develop the emotional intelligence to turn challenges into opportunities

    Own It – Take Control of Your Success

    • Silence limiting beliefs and take ownership of your personal and professional growth
    • Cultivate self-awareness and emotional mastery to navigate high-pressure situations
    • Embrace setbacks and uncertainty as steppingstones to breakthrough moments
    • Stop playing small—elevate your self-worth and step into leadership with confidence

    Live It – Perform at Your Peak & Create Lasting Impact

    • Take bold, strategic action to maximize performance and fulfillment
    • Build mental fitness habits that strengthen resilience and adaptability
    • Show up consistently as your best self, both at work and in life
    • Transform success from a fleeting feeling into a sustainable way of thinking


    Beyond the Keynote: Tools & Takeaways:

    This keynote includes a customized digital workbook featuring actionable exercises and strategies to continue building mental fitness long after the event, including:


    • Positive Intelligence Saboteur Assessment & Report – Identify and eliminate self-sabotaging thought patterns
    • Mindset Shift Tracker: “You Are Not Your Thoughts” – Learn to reframe negative thoughts and build mental fitness
    • Big Goals Tracker: “No Playing Small” – Set and track ambitious, transformative goals
    • 14-Day Mental Fitness Challenge – Daily practices to strengthen mindset and resilience


    Tara’s engaging, no-fluff approach ensures audiences walk away empowered, energized, and equipped to train their minds like they train their bodies—because success starts in the mind.

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