Tammy Dowley-Blackman

Tammy Dowley-Blackman is a recognized organizational and leadership development authority. She has designed, delivered presentations, residencies, training, and workshops across the United States. In addition, she has served as a strategic advisor to hundreds of organizations on a range of topics including Advancement/Fundraising, Board Development (Recruitment and Retention), Business Model Development, Career and Professional Development, Corporate Brand and Identity, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Accessibility, and Belonging (DEIAB) and Racial Equity (RE), Educational Institutional Reform and Policy, Gen Z Workplace Solutions, Leadership Development, Philanthropic Trends, and Tools for Executive Team Leadership. She has also served as a professor and Senior Fellow at the Boston University School of Management, Cambridge College and Lesley University.

She is the CEO of Tammy Dowley-Blackman Group, LLC, a certified National Supplier Development Council Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), Small Business Administration (SBA) Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB), and Women's Business Enterprise Network Council (WBENC) woman-owned company, as well as a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program. The company is comprised of a suite of brands, including TDB Group Strategic Advisory, a management consulting firm specializing in organizational and leadership development for the corporate, government, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors utilizing the proprietary TDB Group Truss Framework to foster innovative solutions, as well as Looking Forward Lab, which partners with corporations and higher education systems to offer a full-service learning engagement model that includes residencies, executive coaching, consulting, and training focused on Gen Z workplace development and support for their managers.

Tammy is the former CEO of two nationally affiliated nonprofits where she helped to steward significant growth. She served as the founding Director of the Proteus Fund Diversity Fellowship, a successful nationally recognized human resources tool designed to bring more equitable representation and systemic change to large-scale philanthropic institutional systems. She also helped to create four other national fellowship programs, including one designed to help African American women train for elected office.

In addition, Tammy recently completed her six-year term as the president of the TSNE MissionWorks Board of Directors, where she led the $64 million-dollar organization through unprecedented leadership and business model strategic alignment and planning. She also provides leadership as an Advisory Board member for the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

A sample of Tammy's global clients include ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Barr Foundation, Brandywine Health Foundation, Cambridge Innovation Center, City of Boston, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Common Cause, Ford Foundation, Fractured Atlas, GreenLight Fund, Indianapolis Civic Leadership Alliance, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Mississippl Allance for Nonprofits and Philanthropy, Poets & Writers, Schott Foundation for Public Education, Surdna Foundation, TJX Corporation, and YWCA Boston.