Woods College Faculty

Tamara Myles

Part-time Faculty

M.S. in Leadership

Profile

Founder, TMC, LLC

Tamara is an accomplished consultant, trainer, and international speaker with over two decades of experience helping leaders improve business performance. She leverages her expertise in productivity, well-being, and meaningful work to help leaders create systems and cultures that enable their teams to thrive and their organizations to grow.

Tamara was one of the first 600 people in the world to earn a Master’s in Applied Positive Psychology (aka the science of happiness) from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a leading global authority on meaning at work—her research is the first rigorous study to examine the leader’s impact on making work meaningful. 

Tamara's work has been featured in FastCompany, Business Insider, and Forbes, among other publications. She is the author of "The Secret to Peak Productivity" (2014), and her next book, "Meaningful Work," will be published in February 2025.

Tamara is an instructor of Positive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and a senior trainer for the Penn Resilience Program, the world’s leading organization for state-of-the-art, evidence-based resilience and well-being programs.