Tammy Bearden Email & Phone Number

United States

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

Develop strategic roadmaps through discovery processes, create collaborative problem solving approaches, moderate, mediate, and/or facilitate meetings or workshops.I bring clarity to ambiguity using exploratory leadership to elicit stakeholder insights, verify the knowns, and discover the unknowns. As a long time human-centered Knowledge Manager and Certified Change Practitioner, I care deeply about meeting people where they are to get them to where they want to go.Since I see people as complex, fascinating, and uniquely valuable, I am a natural at facilitating dialogue to advance common understanding and problem solving among diverse groups of stakeholders.

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

Through a human-centered prism, I help clients tackle ambiguous problems and dig into root causes. Whether unpacking their visions and strategy, reworking processes to yield operational efficiencies, or researching their challenges and opportunities from multiple angles (PESTEL,) I love helping clients see the unseen potential in their offerings while helping them build a narrative that drives consensus and solid decision making.Facilitating internal innovation workshops, monthly brain-stretching roundtables, and a weekly podcast keeps me connecting insights across the diverse clients, needs, and industries we serve. We are smarter together, so let's work outloud!

Kansas City, Missouri Area

A broad set of macro-environmental factors influence our clients' businesses. The insights gleaned from my team's research aid our clients' decision making and fuel their future growth. • We uncover the knowns via online secondary research from both internal and external sources via marketplace monitoring, competitive analysis, benchmarking, opportunity sizing, and regulatory and policy research.• We discover the unknowns through primary research. This discovery happens with clients and their stakeholders via surveys, interviews, user testing, focus groups, and workshops. I have also designed, created, and maintain a growing Knowledge Library to reference proposals, client deliverables, frameworks, and thought leadership to support the entire consulting value chain. And I was delighted to rework our Employee Onboarding Experience, putting new employees in the drivers seat of their learning journey.

Kansas City Metropolitan Area

Redesigned the volunteer onboarding journey content collection in partnership with AVI Volunteer Coordinator.

DWKC is a professional network of women committed to learning, mentoring, collaborating and growing together. Our group thrives on the different backgrounds and professional paths of our members to focus on professional development, networking, project & team connection, soft skills development and building a sense of community.

Kansas City, Missouri

I led research and knowledge management efforts within our Strategy and Innovation department in the Business & Technology Solutions Group, incorporating a depth of market understanding to new opportunities to deliver highly informed recommendations and thought leadership. Our group leads clients through business transformation by developing innovative solutions and providing consulting services around new, emerging technologies. Additionally, the team leverages advanced product development processes to create and incubate new service lines as well as new technology products. We guide strategic direction, partnerships, investments, and innovation for the firm.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

I managed a fantastic team of experienced legal researchers, complex legal and non-legal research projects, competitive intelligence, knowledge management efforts, and current awareness services firm-wide, ensuring timely, high quality, accurate results. As a resource expert aligned with five of our transactional legal practices, I took a leading role in the development of knowledge and information as a value-driving business function. I regularly trained attorneys, paralegals, and staff on competitive intelligence, research methods, and strategic resources, both online and in person. I continually analyzed our resources and processes to ensure they addressed the needs of our attorneys. I am proficient with technology (HighQ, SharePoint, Smartsheets), change management (Prosci-certified), and leading teams.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

New to the legal industry, I quickly gained understanding of the firm's priorities and needs of my internal clients to proactively bring added value to their client work and other engagements. I supervised a local team of researchers, reported to a Chief Research Officer in Minneapolis, and managed research projects and knowledge resources for the firm.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

*Curated and disseminated critical news on marketplace threats and opportunities and consumer trends and pressures to an audience of 2,000+ employees daily.*Connected business leaders with insights, secondary research, and internal experts to inform decision making.*Trained others on competitive intelligence, secondary research methods and resources, both one-on-one and in group sessions.*Managed library budget, vendor negotiation and contracts, physical collection & virtual resources.*This position also enveloped all strategies and assignments of the Knowledge Management Leader.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

*Facilitator for innovation labs, workshops, and focus groups.*Authored Knowledge Management Strategy adopted by Corporate Officers.*Completed Knowledge Audits for both Corporate Innovation Group and Consumer Insights Division.*Integrated KM as a corporate discipline by: facilitating Knowledge Transfer sessions; redesigning the process to identify, capture, manage, and share our collective insights; and led a team to design and populate corporate-wide Platform Learning Sites (on SharePoint) with internal knowledge for rapid onboarding of leaders following a corporate reorganization.*Designed, produced, and maintained Insights Knowledge portal (on SharePoint) containing $2.3 million in knowledge assets.*Managed Idea Campaigns for product development within Corporate Innovation Group for 13 months.*Managed our 30+ site SharePoint collection for proprietary consumer and shopper insights.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

*Designed, fielded, and analyzed consumer, user, and market research for Hallmark.com, Hallmark Magazine, and other emerging businesses. *Facilitated one-on-one interviews with executives, clients, partners, and customers to gain front-line insights.*Authored surveys, conducted user testing, and measured and communicated results.

*Collections management and reference inquiry. *Intranet and site management for digital resources.*Taxonomy development.

*GlobalSource was a Hal Oppenheimer start-up, providing aggregated competitive intelligence about people, industries, and products, primarily for investment bankers. *Identified and synthesized information to construct insightful stories to inform our clients' investments. *Led a pod of five researchers.*Developed a deep appreciation for research automation, which rapidly expedited our work products and project delivery. Technologists are some of the best partners for enabling great work.