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Tara Kachaturoff
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Since leaving the corporate arena, Tara has offered coaching,
consulting, and training to a variety of businesses located in the
United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia. She has worked with
individual professionals and multi-million dollar businesses including
attorneys, CPAs, professional speakers, business coaches, published
authors, probloggers, consultants, and entrepreneurs in a variety of
areas representing law, personal development, non-profits, higher
education, telecommunications, healthcare, real estate, marketing,
retail, corporate training, financial services, online marketing,
manufacturing, and sports.
In 2003, she graduated from Coach University, the world’s largest and
most prestigious coaching school, with over 200 hours of coach training.
She has over 450 additional hours of training and education through
Coachville, including its Graduate School of Coaching and Corporate
Coaching.
In addition to coaching and consulting, Tara has created over 20
seminars on a variety of subjects for startup and established
entrepreneurs on topics including personal branding, publicity, business
blogging, podcasting, marketing, writing marketing plans, writing and
publishing articles online, ecourse design and development, social
networking, information products, professional image, web traffic
generation, thought leadership, and several courses on relationships.
Not only has she designed and delivered her own courses, but also she
has served as a team leader, coach and consultant, on multiple
occasions, for three prestigious coaching programs focused on
information products, web traffic generation, and relationships.
Tara is the creator, producer and host of Michigan Entrepreneur. First
envisioned in 2005, Tara sought to create a television program where she
could combine her love of speaking and hosting a television show with
her interest in entrepreneurship. Michigan Entrepreneur, which debuted
in early 2006, is a weekly television talk show which features
businesses, from start-up to stellar, as well as organizations that
support entrepreneurship. The program’s mission is to create community
awareness about Michigan entrepreneurs, their businesses and the
organizations which support entrepreneurship and economic growth within
the state.
With 75 programs produced in the first two years, she’s going strong
into her next year of production.
Tara regularly takes professional and technical courses to stay
up-to-date with technology and to continue to deliver high quality
services to her clientele. In the area of personal branding, she holds
designations as a Reach™ Certified Online Identity Strategist, a
Certified 360°Reach™ Assessment provider, and a Reach™ Certified
Personal Branding Strategist™. With these new tools, Tara will be
able to assist her entrepreneurial and corporate clients to assess their
personal brands and advise them on how to use this information to
increase their brand identity and reach their professional goals. This
coincides with her plans to add personal branding coaching and
consulting, in 2008, for startup and established entrepreneurs as well
as corporate employees who looking to move up the ladder of success.
As a professional speaker, she presents at business, community and
educational events as well as through teleseminars. She has been an
active member of Toastmasters International for many years, where she
has been a featured speaker at three annual district conferences. She
holds five Toastmaster designations including Advanced Communicator-Gold
and Competent Leader.
An avid writer, Tara produces material both for her own business as well
as for others while working as a business ghostwriter. She has worked
on a number of books, including some which have become Amazon
bestsellers. Tara has written several books on topics including ecourse
design and development, writing and publishing articles online, social
networking, and marketing.
Tara has over 15 years of experience in the technology industry serving
in the capacity of senior financial analyst, senior consultant and
managing director of corporate planning and budgeting. Her job
responsibilities have included preparation of annual corporate operating
plans, forecasting, competitive intelligence research and analysis, SEC
reporting, auditing, acquisitions, implementation of financial software
systems and extensive work in financial modeling. She has also served
as a financial expert witness in legal proceedings. Early in her career
she worked as a staff auditor for one of the world’s largest public
accounting firms. In her latest role, she was in charge of corporate
planning and budgeting for a half-billion dollar IT professional
services company. Tara is a former Certified Public Accountant,
Certified Management Accountant, and Certified Data Processor.
She has held adjunct faculty positions at the University of Denver,
Walsh College, and South University, teaching courses, both onsite and
online, in financial accounting, corporate finance, money and banking,
and enterprise risk management.
Tara is triple-degreed in business, graduating Magna Cum Laude from both
Walsh College and the University of Denver. She holds a master’s of
science in Finance from Walsh College and both a master’s of Accountancy
and a bachelor’s of science in Accountancy from the University of
Denver. She enjoys travel, writing, classical music, reading novels, cooking, yoga, Colorado, Southern California (especially the beach), Disneyland, spending time with friends, and producing her television program. She is a native of Mission Viejo, located in beautiful sunny Southern California, and currently resides with her family in Birmingham, Michigan, which is ranked as one of the top 100 places to live in the US. Her dream is to one day return to California to enjoy the land of sun, surf, and very cool people.
www.MichiganEntrepreneurTV.com
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