TRAININGS & RETREATS
TRAININGS & RETREATS
Want to add a dynamic engaging seminar, training, or retreat to your program?
Choose from 3 ways to hire Tara for your next event:
Tara Sage, MA
A professional speaker, coach, consultant, author, nomad, and location-independent entrepreneur, Tara is CEO & Founder of Tara Sage Inc. Business owner and industry pioneer since 2004, Tara brings a customer-centric, performance-driven approach to all she does. Her extensive leadership training, with a specialized Masters Degree in Holistic Leadership, combined with her Psychology degree, coach training, commanding stage presence, and passion for supporting others to create freedom-filled lives, all contributes to how she serves clients and audiences alike. She skillfully unlocks individual and team momentum for success.
Past events include:
Keynote speaker for the LadiesDC Mentorship Program: “The Three Keys to a Successful Mentorship Experience”
5x Featured Speaker at the Florida RV Supershow, 2019 & 2020
Led “Speak Up” seminar for LadiesDC members and was spotlighted in the Ladies America News Brief
Hired as Keynote Speaker for “Gals on the Go” event in Oregon
Facilitated daylong “Dreaming Out Loud” program at The Comedy Connection in Rhode Island
And more…
StrengthsFinder 2.0, Top 5: Strategic, Activator, Command, Futuristic, Relator.
Tara has been described as an “incredibly captivating speaker” with compelling content, a commanding presence, and an engaging leadership style.
When she leads a seminar, it’s not just about theories. Bringing vast practical experience working one-to-one with ambitious innovative individuals, and she’s repeatedly been told that this comes through on the stage. Tara helps attendees solve problems and experience profound breakthroughs in their understanding and abilities.
Tara’s personal commitment is to work with you and make your program as successful as possible. Whether it’s your next meeting, seminar series, or conference, her commitment is to provide expert insight and practical strategies in a fun and interactive way.
A skilled seminar leader and group facilitator, it makes sense that Tara also teaches others how to do what she does through her Speak Up™ Program. This program helps participants 1) catapult their public speaking confidence, 2) expand influence and abilities as a leader, and 3) speak in a way that powerfully moves and inspires others towards positive change through the creation and delivery of a Signature Talk.
“I am a human potential activator. I believe in the transformational power of leadership development and the value of leveraging strengths for innovation and collaboration. I delight in contributing to individual and organizational goals to create powerful growth-producing outcomes on all levels. My training, education, entrepreneurial success, personality, and personal journey make me uniquely qualified for educational and transformational speaking.” – Tara Sage
Why book Tara for your next seminar?
Tara is an expert coach, speaker, entrepreneur, author, and leadership development activator. She specializes in empowering and training ambitious professionals to grow as effective leaders. Through a holistic strengths-based approach to personal and professional development, she applies her mastery of coaching, behavior modification, client needs assessment, and seminar facilitation. Tara’s programs and seminars powerfully support participants in personal breakthroughs, fulfillment of potentials, and becoming the kind of leader they themselves would be inspired to follow.
A seminar led by Tara is not just about theories. She has vast practical experience working one-to-one with ambitious innovative individuals, and this comes through on the stage. She helps attendees solve problems and experience profound breakthroughs in their understanding and abilities. Give your attendees the opportunity to learn first-hand from Tara’s compelling content, commanding presence, and engaging leadership style.
Customized Seminar Topics
Professional Development
:: Speak Up! How to Cultivate Your Authentic Voice & Become a Confident Public Speaker
Fear of public speaking, also termed ‘glossophobia,’ is known to be the most common fear. As you grow in leadership, both personally and professionally, it is imperative you become a confident, engaging speaker. You’ve got something to say. Tara teaches how to be the most effective, clear, commanding presence you can be in the delivery of your message.
In this seminar, you will:
- Learn specific techniques to amp up your confidence as a speaker.
- Learn how to cultivate your authentic voice, hone your public speaking skills,
mobilize your message, and gain your audience’s respect. - Practice implementing the skills and techniques that you learn.
:: Must-Know Holistic Leadership Models for Success
Go beyond constricted, oversimplified views of leadership and benefit directly from Tara’s Holistic Leadership Masters degree.
In this seminar, you will:
- Learn the four Unique Frameworks of Effective Leadership and the core skills for mastering their
everyday application in our kaleidoscope of dynamic and ever-changing leadership environments - Also learn four Situational Leadership Models and when each style is appropriate.
- Experience roll-up-your-sleeves group strategy sessions to determine the best practical approaches
for effective leadership in various situations and organizational cultures.
:: Applied Strengths-Based Leadership: It Starts With You!
Becoming a better leader is a process – one that starts with becoming a better YOU. Knowing who you are as a leader is a recipe for success, and the alternative can be downright disastrous. Self-awareness and knowing your strengths is necessary for sustainable leadership and the success of an organization. It’s a must, yet all too often, personal reflection gets overlooked as busyness takes over or a head-in-the-sand approach becomes the default.
In this seminar, you will:
- Engage in insightful exploration with practical assessments and in-depth self-reflection.
- Clarify, embrace your strengths, and learn how to integrate them into your personal leadership style.
- Identify the roles that are imperative for sustained growth and momentum, and identify where support is needed.
- Apply innovative strategies to live and work in your personal “Zone of Genius” while aligning yourself with the
collaborative genius of others; maximize potentials, release struggle, and feel the freedom of being more fully YOU.
Resources/Assessments for preparation before this seminar:
- [Required] Purchase text: StrengthsFinder 2.0 ($15) and use code in the book to take the online assessment.
Bring your results to the seminar. - [Recommended] Take the Kolbe A™ Index ($49.95, www.kolbe.com) Bring your results to the seminar.
Personal Development
:: Fear to Clear: How to Prevent Fear from Slowing You Down & Take Clear-Minded Action for Success
Fear is a normal natural part of being human, yet too often it slows down even the bravest of brave. Fear can sabotage your success, even without your awareness! How is fear slowing down YOUR success? Come find out. Learn the proven steps to bravely reclaim your power over fear and s-t-r-e-t-c-h into taking swift forward-focused action with newfound clarity, confidence, and momentum.
In this seminar, you will:
- Shine a light on fear’s role and learn a proven psychological process to manage and minimize its influence.
- Learn how to harness the gifts of fear and the fuel for change.
- Define your brave next steps for swift, empowered, forward-focused action.
:: Nomadic Living 101: How to Live Nomadically for a Month, a Season, a Year, or Forever
There is so much curiosity about the nomadic lifestyle. This dynamic, interactive seminar and engaging lifestyle-focused program is sure to attract interest and add a unique dimension to your event.
In this seminar, you will:
- Learn real-world strategies and the inside scoop on location-independent living and working.
- Get a personal glimpse into simplification and the living experiment of a full-time RV lifestyle.
- Be inspired, empowered and motivated to stop waiting for “someday” and experience new horizons.
- Gain insight into the changing definition of home in the 21st century along with consideration, opportunities and resources that make nomadic living more feasible than ever.
- Co-habiltation tips, lifestyle logistics, cost-cutting strategies, wellness advice, and so much more…
:: Strengthen Your Personal Foundation, Revitalize Your Energy & Passion for Life
Tired of feeling scattered, frustrated, and wanting things to be different but unclear and intimidated about where to start? From exactly where you are, learn how to go from exhausted to inspired and powerfully reclaim your precious energy. Time management is one level, energy management is another. Go beyond theories of change and engage in a practical, easy-to-follow process for exactly how and where to focus your energy and efforts: create new habits, communicate with ease, watch time expand for you, and never again feel like life is happening TO you.
In this seminar, you will:
- Quickly gain stable footing with powerful assessments and specific tools to strengthen the foundation that all areas of your life are being built on.
- See how to powerfully and immediately reclaim your precious energy.
- Engage in practical, proven, easy-to-follow strategies to confidently steer your life in the direction of your own choosing.
:: Dreaming Out Loud!
Personal growth has never been so much fun! If you are feeling restless, uninspired, and wondering what’s next, get ready to break free of all the “shoulds” and “same-old-same-olds” and step into the freedom and excitement of the “because I want to’s.” Learn life lessons through laughter and connect with excitiement energy, passion potential, and massive momentum and motivation. Powerfully connect with your dreams and goals and be inspired by the dreams of goals of others – all while having a blast!
(While a full-day program by design, content can be scaled to meet any timeline. Visit www.DreamsandLaughter.com for details.)
In this seminar, you will:
- Be inspired to dream BIG and take the next steps to bring those dreams to life. (It’s never too late.)
- Gain resources and an understanding of the power in sharing and declaring your dreams.
- Learn how to access and embrace the joy and ease of manifestation and remove obstacles to your success.
:: Dream Acceleration Retreat Weekends & Special Events
Tara provides customized retreat weekends for groups of 12 or more. Contact her today to request a special event.
Get In Touch to Discuss Dates, Speaker Fees, and How We Can Best Serve Your Program
FREE BONUS SESSION(S):
Tara knows that questions often arise after a seminar ends. And because she is committed to ensuring that the full value of the program is received, she is happy to provide a special complimentary bonus session for all participants: A live 1-hour Q&A teleconference, delivered within 14 days of the in-person seminar.
TECHNOLOGY and HANDOUTS
AV technology support will be needed for seminar Powerpoint displays. Any relevant handouts will be provided by Tara.
RATES AND BONUSES
Based on what will best serve your attendees and your budget, programs can be scaled, from a 1-hour workshop, half-day seminar or a full-day seminar. Due to Tara’s travel schedule, a 50% non-refundable deposit is required to secure a seminar date. A 10% discount will be applied when booking more than one seminar. Standard accommodations and travel expenses may apply.
Half-day seminars are the most popular option, providing tremendous high-value content in a concise and powerful format that also allows for real-time, interactive participation and integration of the material.
Who to Invite. Make a list of all the circles of women you have in your life: family members, old friends, new friends, work friends, book club, or fitness club, spiritual community, friends from college… Send an invitation to all of them and be sure to ask them to think of a friend or two to invite. Make it first come, first serve to encourage registrations. Tara requires a 12 person minimum. Consider having an inter-generational group as the retreat lends itself to cross-generational learning.