Make the Seemingly impossible, Possible.

That often means learning how to have strategic discussions with purpose, personality and respect. Our team loves helping people tap into this problem-solving ability. We have a seasoned professional history in supporting and developing leaders. We’re also adult learning nerds. Whether we draw from our background in the military, politics, the arts, or legislative advocacy and organizing, we know how to help people get engaged and learn.

Tanya Tarr is founder and President of Cultivated Insights. Tanya is a behavioral scientist who studies how people make choices and how that can motivate change.

She spent nearly 20 years working in progressive politics. Half of that time was spent on the data-side of elections, where she analyzed millions pieces of data - including polling and historical voter history - to understand how to influence voting behavior and persuasion on issues. The other half of her career was leader-facing, including advising and coaching hundreds of executives, elected officials and community leaders. She also managed and mobilized hundreds of people during her career.

Tanya is a columnist and senior contributor with Forbes, where she covers negotiation technique, equal pay and the future of work. Over the years, Tanya has interviewed more than 200 CEOs, executives and women leaders making a positive impact in their industries.

Tanya is ranked as the #24 most influential voice on Twitter on gender equality and diversity, according to Onalytica. She is also founder of the Cultivated School, which offers virtual workshops to entrepreneurs and careerists on the art and practice of negotiation. Her students hail from India, Nigeria, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. To date, 1,000+ people have participated in her interactive workshops.

Tanya’s career also includes working with military families and in national defense during the second major Iraq deployment. She designed and executed a family readiness and cost-benefit study for the United States Army Reserve. Tanya has a master of science in performance measurement from Carnegie Mellon University. She is a certified master trainer by the Center for Effective Performance and is a certified coach via the State University of New York, Purchase.

Anna Beard is an associate practitioner with Cultivated Insights. Anna began pursuing dance, earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Michigan in 2003.  Along the way she has danced and trained with a number of different groups, including the Kyrgyz National Ballet in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Movement Artists’ Guild and her own creation, AuxWerks.  Over her twenty years of teaching, a deep love of technique has allowed her to refine movement and give her students a strong foundation in a way that is both fun and rewarding, and that extends as well into corporate training.

Anna’s recent focus has been on instructing adults exclusively.  As adults, we often talk ourselves out of trying new things because we perceive it as “too hard” or because we’re “too old” or think we’ll be judged too harshly. Wouldn’t it be great if adults had a place to play? Not play in the entertainment sense, but truly explore both ourselves, and an activity, in the most innocent sense of the word.  This and the fact adults find swearing much more entertaining has inspired her to dedicate herself to creating accessible learning opportunities for those who think it is beyond their reach.