Keynotes & Sessions - Tri Delta

FRIDAY KEYNOTE

TARA RENZE
Create it. Own it. Live it.

Tara Renze is an author, keynote speaker, emotional intelligence & positive intelligence practitioner, podcaster, thought-leader, wife and mother and is redefining how we unleash purpose, level up our success and create sustainable happiness and fulfillment in all aspects of our lives. After two decades of success in corporate leadership and social selling, she started writing and keynote speaking to empower others to “be who they came to be” and create, own and live the life they desire, envision and deserve. Tara has a true passion and talent for guiding others to harness and realize their full potential.

Through books, keynotes, workshops, podcasts, social media, and insights, she helps her audience become the best version of themselves, achieve unlimited success, live fulfilled and pursue their passions. Tara takes a new and refreshing approach to helping others find purpose and be who they came to be. She combines her expertise in emotional & positive intelligence, success in corporate leadership and experience in social sales along with her roles as a wife and a mother to offer her audience an experience and a message that are sincere, motivating, relatable and game changing.

Tara is recognized as an inspirational leader and top achiever. At CareerBuilder.com, she was celebrated as a top national sales leader as she built and led two multi-million-dollar sales teams, facilitated national trainings, and provided leadership consulting to sales teams across the country. She left the corporate world to raise her two boys and successfully built a nationwide, multi-million-dollar social selling business that offered flexible entrepreneurship for women.

Tara is a frequent keynote speaker and workshop host at local and national conferences and seminars and is an emotional-intelligence expert certified through OKA-Online. She graduated from the University of Kansas and has studied leadership at the Wharton School of Business, The University of Chicago and the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Tara published her first book “Be Who You Came To Be” in November of 2021 and her Children’s book “Bee Who You Came To Bee” in January of She’s currently working on her third book “Perfectly Flawed,” which will drop 2024.

Her favorite titles in life are wife to Scott, mom to Ben and Jack, daughter, sister and friend. Her dogs, Olive & Phog, are by far her biggest fans.

EDUCATIONAL SESSION OPTIONS

Officers will get the chance to attend their choice of educational sessions at CLC. The topics will be a mixture of position-specific education and broader leadership skills (e.g., leading a team meeting, having difficult conversations, etc.). Each officer role will select the topics they want to attend.

Collegiate Chapter President

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Vice President/Operations

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Vice President/Chapter Programming & Development

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Vice President/Community Relations

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Vice President/Member Experience

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COMMUNITY COHORTS

Attendees will also get to bond over their shared roles in Community Cohorts, based on your officer role! Community Cohorts provide an opportunity for intensive training, developing leadership skills, skill application and more personal conversations with your peers in smaller groups.

Collegiate Chapter President

Vice President/Operations

Vice President/Chapter Programming & Development

The vice president of chapter programming and development (VPCPD) community cohort time is designed to provide you with an opportunity for the development of leadership skills, critical thinking, empathy and care. You will gain an understanding of best practices for learning and personal development for you and your members. Throughout the weekend, you will learn about how to best facilitate difficult conversations, how to best support your team, and make developmental decisions during conduct committee meetings. You will use this knowledge to engage in different potential situations you may encounter in your chapter. The weekend will conclude with in-depth practice scenarios to prepare you to lead with confidence during the year ahead.

Vice President/Community Relations

This community cohort is designed to provide the vice presidents of community relations (VPCRs) with an opportunity for the development of leadership skills, application of skills, training and more personal conversations with their peers. Throughout the weekend, VPCRs will explore key responsibilities of their role, including the role of Panhellenic delegate and the chair of the diversity, equity, inclusion, access and belonging (DEIAB) committee. VPCRs will do a deep dive of their role as Panhellenic delegate and practice serving in this role through real-life scenarios. The community cohort will continue with powerful conversations about DEIAB and VPCRs will develop a plan to move their chapter forward using the DEIAB Chapter Assessment as a tool. VPCRs will also develop new ideas to foster community and belonging in the chapter through exploring concepts such as psychological safety and gaining tools to have productive conversations. VPCRs will leave CLC with a network of support and share their personal commitments with their peers in their final community cohort.

Vice President/Member Experience

The vice president of membership experience (VPME) community cohort will dive into how to support the recruitment and retention efforts in your chapter through collaboration with the membership experience team and the other officer teams. VPMEs will identify how recruitment and retention work together to affect the chapter’s membership growth. In the second community cohort, the VPMEs will explore the purpose of the retention committee and how to create purposeful retention plans that promote a positive membership experience. VPMEs will also dive into Fraternity resignation trends to identify members most at-risk for leaving Tri Delta and examine why and when members typically leave. VPMEs will leave CLC with a plan to support their chapters recruitment and retention efforts and share their personal commitments with their peers in their final community cohort.