Here’s How Tammy Can Help
Speaker
Tammy is an international keynote speaker and broadcast journalist who has delivered compelling stories and breaking news to millions of viewers daily across 25 years as a national correspondent and investigative journalist.
Adviser
Tammy advises Fortune 500 companies and pharmaceutical and biotech organizations on strategic communication consulting - developing organizational communication frameworks, executive messaging strategy, and crisis communication protocols at the enterprise level.
Coach
One-on-one and team coaching for CEOs and C-suite leaders preparing for high-stakes moments - FDA advisory committees, board presentations, investor calls, and media interviews.
Tammy also works with professional athletes and high-performance professionals who need to excel under pressure and in media situations.
Writer
Tammy is a #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning writer available to craft your book, keynote speech, or strategic media messages.
About
Whether racing Ironman, swimming alone from Alcatraz Island, skydiving, ice climbing, lasting 30 days on Survivor, following drug smugglers through sewage tunnels, confronting murderers, or spending years inside the cavernous mind of a serial rapist, Tamara knows how to adapt.
This one important trait has been pivotal to her success in business, extreme sports and in life—and now forms the foundation of her coaching practice, where she teaches others to harness the power of adaptation.
Constantly adapting, her career evolved from newspaper crime reporter, to reality TV personality, investigative journalist, documentarian, network correspondent, professor, motivational speaker and bestselling author. Not afraid to take risks and push boundaries — Her passion as a journalist, storyteller and photographer has led her all over the world.
Since her 2001 appearance on the hit reality TV show "Survivor" watched by 20 million viewers, Tamara has been in the public eye. As an investigative journalist in Phoenix, NYC and Chicago she's been a fixture on televisions in homes across America for decades. And while reporting as a national network correspondent on the Today Show, Nightly News and MSNBC, millions of viewers watched Tamara daily.
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Speaker
Tamara is a motivational speaker with an international perspective on how to get what you want out of life and business by adapting to the evolving circumstances around you.
She draws on decades of experience as an national correspondent and investigative journalist, where she continually adapted to her everchanging environment and situation, yet always staying true to her authentic self.
Tamara has developed a proven method of adaptability that builds longevity, empowerment and success. She creates each personal keynote for corporate clients that takes the audience on a journey of self-discovery, while providing tools to sustain their newfound awareness.
COACH
Tammy's not your typical executive coach. She's a 12x Emmy-winning NBC correspondent who survived reality TV, swam solo from Alcatraz, completed Ironman and wrote a #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller.
She's coached 250+ pharmaceutical executives through FDA advisory committees and C-suite leaders from Fortune 500 and Fortune Global 500 companies to lead with unshakeable confidence - because when billions are on the line, you need someone tested under extreme pressure.
What sets Tammy apart: Every extreme challenge has taught her the same skills executives need most - how to stay calm when everyone's watching, think clearly under time pressure, and adapt quickly when plans fall apart. Whether it's a hostile interview, a grueling endurance race, or a high-stakes FDA meeting, the mental toolkit is the same. She teaches executives to access that same unshakeable composure when their biggest moments arrive.
COACH
Tammy's not your typical executive coach. She's a 12x Emmy-winning NBC correspondent who survived reality TV, swam solo from Alcatraz, completed Ironman and wrote a #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller.
She's coached 250+ pharmaceutical executives through FDA advisory committees and C-suite leaders from Fortune 500 and Fortune Global 500 companies to lead with unshakeable confidence - because when billions are on the line, you need someone tested under extreme pressure.
What sets Tammy apart: Every extreme challenge has taught her the same skills executives need most - how to stay calm when everyone's watching, think clearly under time pressure, and adapt quickly when plans fall apart. Whether it's a hostile interview, a grueling endurance race, or a high-stakes FDA meeting, the mental toolkit is the same. She teaches executives to access that same unshakeable composure when their biggest moments arrive.
WRITER
When Tamara left the network in mid 2019 she realized it was time to once again adapt – to reinvent her career to allow her to move closer to family in Southern California and take a break from the never-ending cycle of breaking news. Tamara challenged herself to finish writing a book she started decades prior.  And she is now the author of the international bestselling true-crime memoir "Don't Say a Thing".
This investigative work explores the harrowing journey of women who survived a serial rapist. Tamara reveals the impact this crime had on the mental health of these women — painting an intimate, raw picture of the immediate and long-term effects of violence against women.
Journalist
Tamara’s journalism career started in newspapers, specializing in long-format investigations. After a few years she transitioned into television.
She has exposed the underworld of body brokering, spent years reporting on cyber security and the dark web, investigated Mexican drug cartels and reported as an inmate from inside Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Tent City - which has since been shut down for inhumane treatment of inmates.
Tamara has been widely recognized for her investigations, writing, and her ability to influence change, receiving a dozen Emmys for her work.
Notably, she received a George Foster Peabody, an Edward R. Murrow and a Sigma Delta Chi award for her documentary that exposed a decades old government cover-up, where American soldiers were ordered to bury Agent Orange on a U.S. military base in South Korea.
While at NBC News she was honored with a national GLADD media award for her investigation into the unreported and misreported violent deaths of transgender people here in the U.S.
She’s lived in London and worked internationally – reporting on human rights injustices from Syria to Russia, Venezuela to Mexico.
Leitner reporting for The Today Show in a refugee camp in Lebanon, two miles from the Syria border.
SURVIVOR
More than twenty years ago, the reality TV show Survivor was just becoming a part of pop culture, when Tamara was cast on the fourth season of the reality television show where 16 contestants are dropped on an island with no food, no water and no fire. The goal: Outwit, outplay and outlast.
Tamara adapted to the ever-changing mental game and used her athleticism to win three straight challenges and last 30 out of 39 days.
Athlete
Always the athlete and competitor, Tamara is constantly pushing her body and mind. Whether competing in Ironman, swimming from Alcatraz Island, ice climbing or lifting weights, she believes that an athletic state of mind gives her a mental edge - translating to success in both business and life.
She learned to box in Thailand, meditate in the Himalayas, studied yoga throughout India, and has run thousands of miles all over the world: in jungles, on beaches, through slums, and frenetic cities. Because when she travels – whether on assignment as a journalist or for pleasure, she always makes time for runs. It’s how she relaxes, sees a new place, and re-energizes after a long flight.
