Your Practice Is Alive.
Lead It With the Depth and Clarity It Deserves.

I help practice leaders read and respond to the full ecosystem of their practice — culture, leadership, people, and patterns — making decisions rooted in clarity, not chaos.

I’m sure there’s a lot to say, but here’s the relevant things you actually need to know about me:

  1. My brain runs fast and in layers.
    I see the emotional, structural, cultural, and strategic threads of a practice simultaneously — and I can’t not see them (it’s my natural tendency, not a forced process).

  2. I think in systems, not tips.
    Patterns, dynamics, power flows, leadership gaps, emotional undertones, interconnected processes — I track the whole organism, not just individual symptoms. Another thing I can’t not do. It’s second-nature.

  3. I help leaders see what’s really happening.
    I don’t care about the story. I don’t care about the performance. Hell, I don’t even GAF what the community thinks about your group. I care about the actual, underlying things that are driving the chaos, stagnation, tension, atrophy, or friction of your group. I want the raw and messy truth, and I want you to see it with me for sustainable change to happen.

  4. I don’t believe in cookie-cutter answers.
    What I offer is nuanced, layered, and specific to the leader and the practice-organism in front of me.

  5. I could bathe for eternity in depth, clarity, and real change (I am seriously here for it).
    I’m not good at performative leadership or a fancy framework if it doesn’t get to the core. If you’re ready to understand your practice at its root level, you’re in the right place.

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Hey there, I’m Tara!

Your Practice is Alive: The Framework

I can’t look at any one piece of a group practice without seeing how intricately connected it is to every other piece.

When we pull on one thread, we see movement in the entire body.

The Living Practice Framework™ is my model for building, conceptualizing, and running group practices. It assumes a practice carries a metaphorical pulse, has a state of health, and constantly seeks homeostasis.

We need to know how to understand and respond to the needs of the practice, while ensuring that it’s moving in the desired direction. It’s a skillset, not a talent.

Conceptualizing a group practice as alive is also where:

  • structure meets soul

  • leadership isn’t just a title, it’s a way of being

  • culture isn’t something you hope for... it’s something you shape.

It’s embracing the fact that the practice you’re building is alive, and it will either ripen with the right attention or it will die on the vine.

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Your Practice is Alive. So Are You.

There’s no one right path. No perfect formula. And no five-step plan that magically makes you the leader you’re trying to become.

What you do have is curiosity, instinct, and a felt sense that your practice is asking more of you — more clarity, more capacity, more honesty, more leadership.

And that’s the work. It’s not about hustling harder or performative confidence or “fixing” things in isolation.

It is about learning to read your practice like the living system it is and responding with precision, depth, and integrity.

If you want support that actually meets you at that level, there are two ways to stay in my world:

  1. listen to my podcast (where I teach, think, and riff in real time), and/or

  2. join my email list below — it’s the only place I share updates, any of my offerings, and deeper insights (without noise or filler).

Stay close if you want to. Drift in and out if you need to. This work is cyclical, and I trust you to know when it’s time for your next season.