Tameka has more than 20 years of experience in organizational and leadership development. She applies her talent management experience to advise clients on the best approach to attract, retain and develop their teams. Tameka’s experience spans from managing diverse work teams and overseeing organizational assessments to solution design, facilitation, and execution for a variety of industries as diverse as financial services, manufacturing, retail, professional services, nonprofit, health care and pharmaceuticals. For eight years as a partner and founder of a practice, Tameka led Next Street’s talent management practice, which focused on the diverse human capital needs of small business/nonprofit and large enterprise organizations. Tameka holds a dual bachelor’s degree in sociology and African-American Studies with a concentration in history from Yale University, where she received a Master’s Cup and the Elm and Ivy Award for her dedication to community service and strengthening the relationship between Yale and the surrounding New Haven neighborhoods. She has been a repeat lecturer at the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City’s ICCC executive education series, a speaker at the Linkage Organizational Development Summit and for the New England Human Resources Association South Shore Workshop series, as well as an author for Workforce Magazine.