Our Voices: Tamara Lebak, PCC, M.Div
Tamara Lebak, PCC, M.Div is an experienced DEI and restorative practices facilitator, certified executive coach, gestalt trained organizational development consultant, ordained UU minister, and published author. Tamara’s consulting experience includes educational, corporate, nonprofit, religious organizations as well as government entities. She was the first openly gay minister to serve the largest UU church in the world and the first successful Defense Initiated Victim Outreach (DIVO) advocate in Oklahoma on a capital case. Tamara’s methodology includes a trauma-informed, developmental, and data-driven approach to DEI as well as the idea that our values should guide our priorities. She has been trained in a number of body centered practices including microexpression recognition, bioenergetics, and Qigong. Tamara has lived in Belgium, speaks French, and loves to travel (especially to locations where she can try a new michelin star restaurant). Tamara and her wife Bonnie and daughter Beckett currently live in Tulsa, OK where Tamara is involved in designing statewide professional development for teaching the Tulsa Race Massacre in a culturally responsive way. Tamara is dedicated to developing effective leaders, raising emotional and cultural awareness, promoting truthfulness and authenticity, and ultimately contributing to creating a more just and compassionate world.