Life, Values & Legacy: Our Chat with Tara Powers of Lafayette, CO

Tara Powers shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.

Tara, so good to connect and we’re excited to share your story and insights with our audience. There’s a ton to learn from your story, but let’s start with a warm up before we get into the heart of the interview. What do the first 90 minutes of your day look like?
I get up when it’s still very quiet in my house and my teen girls are sleeping. I make some coffee and sit down by my fireplace and journal. This has been my saving grace for the past 3 years post divorce along with bubble baths. It has kept my mind in a healthy place, allows me to work out anxiety that I may be experiencing, practice gratitude and joy for my beautiful family and life, and focus on what really matters. Two days a week, I workout with a personal trainer which I have also been doing consistently for over 3 years. This had kept me strong in mind and body which has been a game change during times of high stress.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I am the CEO of Powers Resource Center, a boutique corporate training and consulting company. We don’t just develop leaders—we spark potential. With over 30 years of expertise, we build custom, out-of-the-box leadership and team training solutions that address the challenges and opportunities of the modern workplace.

Our programs blend science-backed methodologies with practical solutions, creating measurable results. With learner completion rates of 82% and an overall 42% increase in leadership confidence, we offer tangible outcomes that shape the future of organizations. I’ve authored two books….Wiley’s Virtual Teams for Dummies and Working from Home for Dummies.

PRC has delivered over 3,500 workshops, impacted 350+ organizations and trained over 35,000 leaders and teams. We’ve been recognized with 25+ industry awards for our success in driving transformative change in organizations. We are a “go-to” trusted partner for Fortune 100 companies serving insurance, energy, finance, healthcare, IT, telecommunications, construction and manufacturing industries, as well as state and federal government agencies.

“We started working with PRC nearly a decade ago as a group of inexperienced managers navigating highs and lows. I don’t know that we would have gotten through the lows without them. PRC was transformational in how we came to value the power of trust in the workplace.” — Troy Lerner, CEO, Booyah Advertising

Our current projects include:
Leadership Acceleration Program: Award-winning leadership program that empowers leaders to rise to any challenge.

Team Transformation: Programs fostering trust, communication, and collaboration.

Executive Coaching: Personalized, high-impact coaching strategies.

Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team and DiSC Certification: Certifications that deepen team self-awareness and emotional intelligence.

Train the Trainer Masterclass and Resources: Equipping your L&D teams with the resources and tools to enable your workforce to thrive.

Hybrid Team Solutions: Innovative strategies for thriving in hybrid work environments.

Thanks for sharing that. Would love to go back in time and hear about how your past might have impacted who you are today. What relationship most shaped how you see yourself?
Being a mother to two girls has completely transformed how I see myself. Now that they are older, they see things about me and how I am in the world, that I don’t even see. It’s profound and beautiful when they tell me how much I have my life together, how strong, smart and tenacious I am, when I sometimes feel completely the opposite. However, I want to be the person they see me as, so its inspiring and motivates me to dig deeper when I need too. Being a role model for my girls is the greatest gift I could ask for. I know that everything I do in business and life, they are paying attention and that means everything to me.

What did suffering teach you that success never could?
The pain of divorce has taught me how strong and resilient I truly am. It also helped me to recognize that I am self-sufficient and there really isn’t anything I can’t do. That kind of confidence only comes through adversity. I have learned to much about who I am, what my values truly are, and what I stand for as well as what true friendship looks like. Getting divorced cracks the foundation of your life and everyone that is a part of it. Many close friends and family can’t handle it and you lose a lot of people through the process. But I have learned that everyone is going through their own stuff, and much of it has nothing to do with me. That is a huge lesson in letting go and not trying to control everything. It has helped me to focus on where I can have the most impact, using the gifts that I have and stop ruminating on people and things that I have no control over. That is so freeing.

So a lot of these questions go deep, but if you are open to it, we’ve got a few more questions that we’d love to get your take on. Where are smart people getting it totally wrong today?
We are not here to make the most money or accumulate the most toys, we are here to help each other. That is what this life is about in my opinion. Providing a helping hand, support, and kindness to someone in need is what I believe we were meant to do. Life isn’t about getting rich, it’s about your impact on others. This is true because no matter how much money you have, many people still aren’t happy or fulfilled. It’s because that is not the answer.

Before we go, we’d love to hear your thoughts on some longer-run, legacy type questions. When do you feel most at peace?
Hiking in the mountains or paddle boarding on the lake, paying attention to our natural world and realizing that life is happening all around us and it’s beautiful. We just have to stop and listen.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.powersresourcecenter.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taralpowers
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarapowers/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@powersresourcecenter