Hustle Grind Shine & Reignite: Episode 2 with Tanarra Schneider

Hustle Grind Shine & Reignite with Jessica Hartley

As a culture strategist at her core, Tanarra Schneider has always been on a personal quest to marry her passion and purpose of centering humans in everything that she touches. In this episode, we start at the roots of Schneider’s life growing up as a biracial kid in Chicago, up through her current role as a Managing Director of Leadership and Culture at Accenture.

We explore:

• The importance of supporting your mental health and recognizing when you need support
• How the privilege of taking a break can provide centering and an opportunity to recast your future
• Delegation of responsibilities as a form of power for you and empowerment for the people who work with you

About Tanarra Schneider

Based in Chicago, Schneider is a skilled user experience strategist, with a passion for solving key business and social problems by putting the user first. She believes strongly in working with teams and that titles and labels are meaningless – it's the work you do that counts. Her fascinating professional background includes dancing, cooking, event planning, designing and more, and this has provided a holistic approach to her teams and her work.

Among the solutions, she has influenced or created are high fashion websites, customer support tools, intranets, extranets, learning management systems, social health programs, and learning applications. She loves to synthesize concepts visually – and believes a picture IS worth 1000 words. In the near future, Schneider is leaning into her own personal passion projects, including launching a personal coaching consultancy and a project marrying two of her favorite loves, food and storytelling.