Breakfast Speakers

Each month at the WBE Breakfast we have an inspirational speaker. Thank you to all of our speakers!  Our speaker for May 2008 was:

Tamra Fleming 

It’s Spring!  Clarity, Focus, and Energy Reemerge

As you delight in the ways that Spring reminds you of new growth, you may also be feeling that tug to re-energize and start anew.  Want to experience renewed clarity, focus and alignment?  One place to begin is your physical environment – there is a zen to spring cleaning and understanding your surroundings that may surprise you!

Tamra Fleming, is a catalyst for personal transformation through the relationship between people and the spaces they inhabit.  She is passionate about kick-starting positive changes in your life and the lives of your customers, and will share her pioneering approach to intentionally aligning life goals with interiors.

After exiting the corporate world in 1997, Tamra set out on a yearlong solo journey around the world. Wandering the planet and seeing the contrast between the materialistic life of many Americans and the spiritual life of most of other cultures around the globe became the catalyst for a new career, culminating in Tamra founding the Life Architecture® process, a unique blend of energy-based life visioning, coaching, and creating intentional spaces.

About Tamra Fleming’s Background:

Natural Gifts
As a child, Tamra Fleming was sensitive to energy and her surroundings were an important part of feeling safe and nurtured in the world.  She also understood that her room was her place of self-expression and identity.  At 12, her room was a complete representation of who she was—until one day when she was away on summer vacation, her mom redecorated it as a sweet surprise!  It went from a tomboy’s den to a pink chiffon palace!  This experience was an early catalyst for Tamra’s future career.  At 17, and a freshman at the University of Oregon, she pursued this interest by completely remodeling her dorm room with custom built-in furniture!  The school newspaper featured her room as one of the most creatively redesigned rooms on campus and featured it on the front page with an article entitled, That Personal Touch.

The Call
After exiting the corporate world in 1997, Tamra set out on a yearlong solo journey around the world. With her ticket in hand and one key remaining to the padlock on her storage unit that housed what was left of her material possessions, she stepped off US soil and onto foreign streets and rich cultures. Wandering the planet would become a core turning point in her life.
She experienced the essence, texture and soul of life through Europe, Egypt, Africa, Jordan, India, Nepal, Thailand and Indonesia. What she discovered was the distinct difference between the materialistic life of Americans and the spiritual life of most of the rest of the world. On this journey, Tamra was called to come back to our culture with an awakened spirit and do what she could to make a difference. She chose to focus on assisting others in the life | space journey.

Intentional Living Through Space
In 1999, Tamra became a Life Coach and Practitioner of Western Aesthetic Style Feng Shui.  Five years later, she gave birth to the evolved version of this work in the form of the Life Architecture® process. This process is a unique blend of energy-based life visioning and coaching; and, translation of that vision into your physical surrounding through personal symbolic representation. This guided experience turns your space into a physical reflection of your intentions.

Life Architecture was inspired through in-depth personal study of the relationship between people and the spaces they inhabit. The most significant book of her studies was House As Mirror of Self, Clare Cooper Marcus, 1979; and The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols of the Self, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, 1981; and other masters of their trade, from famous architects such as Christopher Alexander, Sim Van Der Ryn, Antoni Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright and Friedensreich Hundertwasser—all passionately driven by the human | architecture | space relationship.

Education & Career
Tamra Fleming’s entire career has been about people and their relationships to life, work and space. Her career path took her from the fashion industry at Macy's San Francisco to Liz Claiborne New York, to eventually becoming the Director of Learning & Organizational Development at Starbucks Coffee Company, where she pioneered the first self-directed training program for its stores.  Her educational path has been eclectic and driven by her passion for life-long learning and personal evolution.