COACH | ADVISOR | SPEAKER

LaTanya began her career as the founding director of a small national nonprofit where she honed her skills in organizational development. Since that time, she has developed strategies that have helped C-suite and senior leaders across sectors and industries overcome obstacles and increase inclusion and equity to advance business goals and achieve impact.

As an experienced practitioner, advisor and coach, she’s driven groundbreaking and large-scale program launches by developing sound strategy, building multi-stakeholder initiatives, and inspiring collective action.  

LaTanya is adept at turning nascent ideas into successful projects and helping teams achieve outsized results by anchoring their efforts in a relationship systems approach. 

She is the inaugural leader of one of the largest business-led efforts focused on increasing racial equity in corporate purchasing and senior leadership. 

A student and champion of inclusive leadership, racial equity, and diversity, equity and inclusion long before they became buzzwords, LaTanya is respected as a culture builder helping organizations and leaders reimagine possibility and actualize their potential. 

Career highlights include:

• Senior Vice President, Inclusive Leadership and Opportunity | Greater Houston Partnership 
• Director, Donor Engagement | Greater Houston Community Foundation 
• Executive Director | The Women's Resource
• Director, External Relations | City Year
• Founder & Principal | CauseAdvance 

The throughline in all of her work has been increasing access and opportunity to help people realize their full potential.

EDUCATION

LaTanya holds an MPAff degree from UT Austin’s LBJ School of Public Affairs, completed a Public Policy & International Affairs Fellowship at UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy, and earned her BA in Sociology from Trinity University.   

CIVIC

Advisory Board Member, Eight Million Stories 

LaTanya is a LeadersTrust Capacity Coach, certified coach with the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, completed studies in Conversational Intelligence® at the CreatingWe Institute and is certified in Organizational & Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC ™) - the first relationship systems training program to be accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). 

• Outstanding Diversity Champion - Houston Business Journal Diversity in Business Award
• Top 100 Women in Business - National Women’s Conference 
• Pioneer Award – FDIC Alliance for Economic Inclusion
• Houston’s 50 Most Influential Women – Houston Woman Magazine