Tara Renze

Tara Renze is an author, keynote speaker, emotional intelligence & positive intelligence practitioner, podcaster, thought-leader, wife and mother and is redefining how we unleash purpose, level up our success and create sustainable happiness and fulfillment in all aspects of our lives. After two decades of success in corporate leadership and social selling, she started writing and keynote speaking to empower others to "be who they came to be" and create, own and live the life they desire, envision and deserve. Renze has a true passion and talent for guiding others to harness and realize their full potential.

Through books, keynotes, workshops, podcasts, social media, and insights, she helps her audience become the best version of themselves, achieve unlimited success, live fulfilled and pursue their passions. Renze takes a new and refreshing approach to helping others find purpose and be who they came to be. She combines her expertise in emotional & positive intelligence, success in corporate leadership and experience social sales along with her roles as a wife and a mother to offer her audience an experience and a message that are sincere, motivating, relatable and game changing.

Renze is recognized as an inspirational leader and top achiever. At CareerBuilder.com, she was celebrated as a top national sales leader as she built and led two multi-million-dollar sales teams, facilitated national trainings and provided leadership consulting to sales teams across the country. She left the corporate world to raise her two boys and successfully built a nationwide, multi-million-dollar social selling business with Stella & Dot, a San Francisco-based boutique-style accessories company offering flexible entrepreneurship for women.

Renze is a frequent keynote speaker and workshop host at local and national conferences and seminars. She is also a passionate supporter of breast cancer awareness. Her mother, mother in law, sister in law and aunt are all breast cancer survivors. 2020 marks the 3rd Annual “Breast Night Ever” event. Renze created this event to celebrate women who’ve been impacted by breast cancer and to raise funds and awareness around the importance of early detection.

Renze is an emotional-intelligence expert certified through OKA-Online. She graduated from the University of Kansas and has studied leadership at the Wharton School of Business, The University of Chicago and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Renze’s first book “Be Who You Came To Be” hit bookshelves in September of 2021. Her first children's book, "Be Who You Came To Bee" which she co-authored with her mom released in early 2023. She is currently writing her second book, "Perfectly Flawed", which will drop in 2024. Her favorite titles in life are wife to Scott, mom to Ben and Jack, daughter, sister and friend. Her dogs, Olive & Phog, are by far her biggest fans.