Hi, I’m Tamera
No two companies are alike. And developing your team’s sales, customer service, and leadership skills can be challenging – especially when off-the-shelf training programs don’t meet your organization’s unique needs. That’s where I come in!
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TAMERA SCHMIDT
Founder | Enlightened Coach, LLC
Leadership Strategist | Neurocoach | Fractional Facilitator | Keynote Speaker
Tamera Schmidt is a leadership strategist and transformation expert with over 20 years of experience leading across customer-facing teams, enablement, transformation, and executive operations. She’s built global L&D programs, led major change initiatives, and served as Chief of Staff — giving her a rare 360° view of how leadership, culture, and business strategy intersect.
Before founding Enlightened Coach in 2016, Tamera held senior roles in enterprise sales, customer success, technical support, field enablement, and strategy at Fortune 500 companies. Her firsthand experience shapes every cohort, keynote, and toolkit she delivers.
She’s partnered with organizations like Cisco, IBM, Pure Storage, Hilton, VMware, and Greenhouse to elevate leadership at all levels — from new managers to senior revenue and strategy leaders — using neuroscience-backed tools and frameworks.
Coaching doesn’t change companies — leaders do
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🧠Built by a Cross-Functional Executive — for Leaders Driving Impact
Tamera’s signature Neuro-Transformation™ Framework fuses neuroscience with practical leadership strategy to drive measurable behavior change, improve retention, and accelerate results. She works with revenue teams, people managers, and enterprise leaders to create the conditions where trust, clarity, and performance can thrive — especially in high-pressure, high-change environments.
Her approach blends strategic insight with operational reality. She’s designed onboarding tracks, scaled coaching culture, led executive reviews, and delivered enterprise-wide development programs that actually move the business.
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🎤Speaker. Facilitator. Transformation Partner.
As a keynote speaker and fractional facilitator, Tamera is known for bringing clarity, humor, and structure to every engagement. She’s served as an adjunct to major sales methodologies, helped enablement leaders deliver strategy through managers, and supported Chief People Officers during periods of rapid organizational change.
She’s also the creator of the Applied Leadership Cohorts — transformational group programs with two progressive levels per track:
• Revenue Leadership Accelerator™ Revenue Leadership Accelerator™ (for experienced customer-facing leaders in sales, success, support, and field strategy)
• Strategic Leadership Accelerator (for experienced internal, cross-functional leaders)
• Emerging Manager Foundations (for new, aspiring, or informal leaders)
Each experience includes live virtual sessions, neuroscience-based toolkits, and alignment with organizational goals.
🔧 She Specializes In Helping Companies:
• Upskill new and emerging managers before the title
• Strengthen trust and retention in frontline leadership
• Align customer-facing, support, and strategy teams during change
• Build coaching capacity inside the business — not just outside it
• Translate neuroscience into measurable team performance
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📜 Professional Certifications & Credentials
Tamera holds advanced certifications across coaching, facilitation, emotional intelligence, and neuroscience-based leadership development, including:
• Certified™ Professional Facilitator (CPF) – International Association of Facilitators
• Certified™ Team Coach Facilitator (CTF) – Team development and performance coaching
• Master Certified Coach (MCC) – International Coaching Federation
• Certified Professional Leadership Coach (CPLC) – ICF-accredited program
• Brain-Based Coaching Certificate® – NeuroLeadership Institute
• Foundations of NeuroLeadership Certificate – NeuroLeadership Institute
• NeuroTransformational Coach (NTC) – Advanced neuroscience-based coaching
• EBW Emotional Intelligence Practitioner – Emotions and Behaviors at Work
• Leadership Circle Profile™ Trained Coach – 360 feedback + leadership insight
• Dare to Lead™ Trained – Based on the work of Brené Brown
• Certified Infinite Possibilities Trainer – Based on the work of Mike Dooley
💡 Resilience in Action
Tamera is also the founder of Outsmart Brain Cancer, a nonprofit inspired by her late husband’s journey with glioblastoma. Her personal story of resilience and purpose shapes the empathy, clarity, and courage she brings to every leadership transformation she leads.
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