Tama J. Kieves is an honors graduate of Harvard Law School who left the practice of law and wrote the bestselling book, This Time I Dance! Creating the Work You Love / How One Harvard Lawyer Left It All to Have It All (Tarcher/Penguin), which was chosen as a Finalist for the National Nautilus Book Award, along with the Dalai Lama's The Art of Happiness. As a sought-after speaker and career coach, she has helped thousands world-wide to live their creative dreams. She is also the founder of Awakening Artistry, an organization dedicated to creating a global family of visionary minds, creative souls, and empowered leaders.

Tama has been inspiring audiences across the country with her unique blend of humor, realness and spontaneity. Besides keynoting at conferences and speaking to New Thought churches, universities, women business organizations, coaching organizations, writer's groups and more, Tama regularly teaches at prestigious venues such as the Omega Institute, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health, Naropa University, New York Open Center and the Canyon Ranch six star spa. She is also a national presenter for A Course in Miracles, an internationally acclaimed program of living in love instead of fear.

Recently, Tama has been featured as one of today's greatest teachers in the Los Angeles Times bestseller A Blessing in Disguise: 39 Life Lessons from Today's Greatest Teachers (Berkley/Penguin), along with Thich Nhat Hanh, Joan Borysenko, Martha Beck, Dean Ornish, and others. She has also been featured in the newly released book 100 Words: 200 Visionaries Share Their Hope for the Future (Conari Press), along with Alice Walker, Jane Goodall, Caroline Myss, Christiane Northrup, and more.

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