Tameka McNair is the author of Conquering Uncertainty - Don’t Concede Too Soon, Your Victory Awaits You. She holds an undergraduate degree in Industrial Engineering with a focus in Human Factors and an MBA with a focus in Leadership. Currently, she is a Director at Microsoft driving digital employee experience success.
Her unique style, personality, and commitment to walking in her authentic truth have all played a major role in navigating her life and career. Inspired by her own journey from poverty to becoming a powerful thought leader, Tameka encourages others to pursue their dreams despite the various challenges they may face. Tameka is a long-time advocate of DEI work and has helped establish employee resource groups to push DEI initiatives. She is an active mentor to both adults and youth in underserved communities and is passionate about encouraging youth and minorities to explore STEM careers. She is also the co-founder of the Women In Energy Conference.
Always looking at what’s ahead of her, Tameka aspires to become the CEO of a Fortune 100 company.
Listen in to hear Tameka share:

Her mission statement: to empower everyone she encounters and help them discover their purpose

Her experience being an engineering student and a single mom to twin boys - one of whom had a stroke at 6 weeks old

How she went from being a little girl in poverty to a single mom in survival mode to thought leader and mission-driven leader

The significance of owning your stories and writing them in a way that gives you power - even in moments where you might feel powerless

How to use being underestimated as a form of fuel

Her goal to be a CEO of a Fortune 100 Company - in order to make space for others to dream

Her decision-making to conscientiously be the “1st generation of many things” in her life in spite of judgment from others 

How your success will make other people uncomfortable and what to do about it

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Connect with Tameka: www.tamekamcnair.com


Book:  Conquering Uncertainty: Don't concede too soon...your Victory awaits you


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