Speaking
I lead a foundation, I run most of my executive week on AI, and I dug my own family out of more than a hundred thousand dollars of debt. That is where the talks come from, and I stay inside that short list. No jargon and no hype, and nothing that needs a follow-up email to make sense.
Where I speak
Campus recreation and parks and recreation associations, sport and youth-sport organizations, chambers, nonprofit associations and capacity builders, professional chapters, service and mother-daughter organizations, schools and parent communities, conferences, and staff or board retreats. Keynote, breakout, workshop, or a 75-minute evening. Virtual or in person.
If you are a volunteer program chair trying to fill a calendar slot with something people will actually remember, that is a normal reason to write to me, and you will not get a sales pitch back.
AI
I show the room how I actually run my week on AI, and then we put it to work on theirs. Nobody leaves with a reading list. Also offered as "The Confident Beginner's Guide to AI" and "AI in Our Homes."
Good for: leadership teams, campus recreation and parks and recreation departments, associations and conferences, chambers, and community networks new to AI.
Leadership
The biggest threat to a mission is rarely a lack of passion. It is the systems that quietly burn out the people who care the most, and the people running those systems have been looking at the same turnover numbers I have. Twelve years of leading a foundation, and my Forbes Nonprofit Council writing, on what actually creates performance a team can keep up.
Good for: nonprofit and association leadership, sport and recreation organizations, workplace-culture conferences, leadership programs, and HR audiences.
Money
My family owed more than a hundred thousand dollars, and what turned it around was not earning more. The talk is the two lists that did it, and it takes about twenty minutes to build them. There is no shame in it, no thirty-tab spreadsheet, and no investment advice.
Good for: employee financial-wellness events, membership groups and chapters, professional associations, and parent communities.
Confidence
Most people in an unfamiliar room assume they are behind, and most of them are wrong about that. I have felt it in every unfamiliar room I have walked into, and I learned to move anyway. This is confidence built on evidence rather than on being told to believe in yourself.
Good for: emerging-leader programs, campus recreation, parks and recreation and youth sport conferences, women in sport, and any audience full of people who are further along than they think.
On request
Our daughters should not just grow up using AI. They should grow up helping shape it. A practical, no-jargon talk on how to actually use AI in real life, and why the people it will affect most belong among the people deciding how it gets built. Works well as a mother-daughter program.
Good for: hosts who specifically want this one. Girls' and women's organizations, mother-daughter groups, and schools and parent communities.
Keynote
One concrete thing, named out loudEvery talk ends on a single specific action, not a stack of theory to file away and forget.
The parts that did not work, tooI speak from what I have actually done, which includes the things that were slow or that failed. That is usually the part a room remembers.
A talk shaped to the roomKeynote, breakout, or workshop, virtual or in person. I tailor the examples to your audience before I ever step up.
I am Tara Fitzpatrick-Navarro. I lead a Mid-Atlantic foundation, I write for the Forbes Nonprofit Council, and I am a Gallup-certified strengths coach. I run my own executive week on AI, and I dug my own family out of more than a hundred thousand dollars of debt. The full list of credentials is on the About page. My side work runs on my own time and tools, outside my day job, and I do not take engagements with my employer's funders, grantees, vendors, or partners.
Contact
Tell me about your event and your audience, and I will send the right one-page overview for the talk that fits. I read and answer these myself.
Start with a short note