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TC Consulting is a diversity, equity, and inclusion consulting firm that identifies the cultural gaps, strategizes how the goal becomes the reality, and refines half-measures to holistic frameworks. Connect with TC Consulting today!
Dr. Tanaisha is committed to leading by example and to being a lifelong learner, exploring different cultures and perspectives. Also, Tanaisha is here to help individuals, organizations, institutions, and more navigate the complexities of comprehensive DEI efforts and nuanced L&D support needs with mindful intention and holistic strives!
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I am a cultural transformation strategist and executive consultant specializing in proactive transformation and institutional effectiveness. With a focus on re-architecting systems to ensure equity is an operational outcome, I lead through a human-centered consulting lens to diagnose structural friction and build psychological safety within complex organizations. My expertise lies in bridging the gap between high-level executive vision and measurable daily impact across higher education, the public sector, and corporate leadership.
IDI and Racial Justice: Toward a Developmental Approach to Dismantling Systemic Racism Webinar Series by Intercultural Development Inventory
Intercultural Development Inventory Qualifying Seminar
Cross-Cultural Facilitation Skills for Trainers & Educators by Lee Mun Wah & Christine Gindi
Cultural & Linguistic Competence to Address Disparities & Inequities by Northern Vermont Area Health Education Center
Engaging Diversity Issues in the Workplace: Using Best Practices in Intercultural Communication and Social Justice by Amer Ahmed and Kathryn Sorrells
Inclusive Leadership and Moderator Workshop by Sustained Dialogue
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Director of Student Development & Belonging: provided leadership for a multi-center department serving 22,000 students across 9 cultural centers spanning ethnicity, race, gender, and sexuality, setting institutional belonging strategy and equity-centered programming.
Co-led a race and reflection immersion across Washington, D.C., Georgia, North Carolina, and Alabama, building participants' capacity for honest dialogue on race, history, and repair.
Completed a social justice service-learning immersion in Ferguson, Missouri focused on Black community initiatives and healing from racial trauma.
Completed a service-learning immersion in Chicago, Illinois, examining how HIV and AIDS stigma affects the LGBTQIA+ community, past and present.
Learning and Development
As Director, designed the supervision, performance-management, and onboarding systems behind a rise in team psychological safety from 1 to 4 (of 5) and staff feedback participation from 20% to 90% within one year.
Co-led the design and facilitation of a multi-state race and reflection immersion, building experiential-learning and group-facilitation skill that transfers directly to L&D program design.
Developed restorative, trauma-aware facilitation and intercultural-humility practice through service-learning immersions on racial healing and HIV/AIDS stigma, adapting sensitive content for diverse adult learners.
Doctor of Philosophy in Education for Social Justice – University of San Diego
Master of Science in Organizational Development – Abilene Christian University
Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies and English Journalism – Eastern University
Our Vision
TC Consulting strives to dynamically inspire individuals, communities, workplaces, and institutions to holistically develop and sustain DEI efforts and L&D support needs that embody liberation for various marginalized communities and evolving social inequities.
Our Mission
TC Consulting fosters environments where individuals, communities, workplaces, and institutions are proactively and intentionally striving to dismantle systems of oppression.
Our Values
Openness to difference- Preparing individuals, communities, companies, and schools to recognize and validate differences.
Growth mindset- Coaching individuals, communities, companies, and schools to perceive challenges as learning opportunities.
Intercultural humility- Teaching individuals, communities, companies, and schools to understand how one’s flex of privilege and oppression, awareness of social inequities, and intersectionality of lived experiences shape who we are and impact how we show up with implementing DEI efforts and L&D support needs.
Equity strategizing- Equipping individuals, communities, companies, and schools to consider all the moving parts with DEI work and L&D services to outline dynamic ways to address inequities and integrate multi-layered realities where social change can be cultivated and sustained.
Consultant Impact
Across more than a decade of equity, belonging, and organizational-development work, TC Consulting has turned strategy into measurable change. Leading a multi-center department serving 22,000 students across nine cultural centers, the firm's founder raised team psychological safety from 1 to 4 on a 5-point scale within a single year and lifted staff feedback participation from 20% to 90% through restorative, equity-centered leadership. This same rigor carries into client engagements, from designing an organization-wide cultural assessment of 155 staff that produced 12 prioritized recommendations, to facilitating mission, vision, and values work and participatory assessments across healthcare, nonprofit, education, corporate, and government settings. The numbers below capture a snapshot of that impact.
