Scale What Matters
Performance, Growth, and Impact
A founder, CEO, and seasoned People & Organizational Design strategist, Tamika is known for transforming how teams work together and how organizations achieve their goals.
Her speaking style blends warmth, clarity, and evidence-based insight — leaving audiences equipped and inspired to lead with purpose.
Tamika’s talks bring Building for Mission’s values-centered approach to life — bridging people strategy, leadership, and emotional intelligence into actionable takeaways for today’s mission-driven leaders.
Tamika Mason
Founder, CEO | Building for Mission
Scale What Matters
Performance, Growth, and Impact
Tamika Mason is the Founder and CEO of Building for Mission, a talent consulting firm that helps organizations align people, culture, and systems with their mission.
With over 20 years of experience as a leader, entrepreneur, and HR strategist, Tamika partners with executive teams across sectors to help them lead change intentionally and sustainably.
A Certified SHRM-SCP and SPHR professional, Tamika has guided organizations to scale — from teams of 50 to 900 across more than 25 cities. She is the creator of TalentEQ, a people-centered framework for HR strategy, and a proud member of the BOW Collective and the BOW’s Speaker’s Bureau, representing top Black women entrepreneurs driving over $1.7 billion in collective impact.
Tamika’s speaking engagements combine insight and authenticity. Whether addressing leaders navigating growth, or teams managing change, she brings a practical, relatable approach that moves audiences from reflection to action.
Tamika Mason is the Founder and CEO of Building for Mission, a talent consulting firm that helps organizations align people, culture, and systems with their mission.
With over 20 years of experience as a leader, entrepreneur, and HR strategist, Tamika partners with executive teams across sectors to help them lead change intentionally and sustainably.
A Certified SHRM-SCP and SPHR professional, Tamika has guided organizations to scale — from teams of 50 to 900 across more than 25 cities. She is the creator of TalentEQ, a people-centered framework for HR strategy, and a proud member of the BOW Collective and the BOW’s Speaker’s Bureau, representing top Black women entrepreneurs driving over $1.7 billion in collective impact.
Tamika’s speaking engagements combine insight and authenticity. Whether addressing leaders navigating growth, or teams managing change, she brings a practical, relatable approach that moves audiences from reflection to action.
Tamika transforms lived experience into leadership breakthroughs that shift how teams work and win.
Growth-minded leadership
This session is about the mindset and capacity it takes to truly grow — as a leader, as a team, and as an organization.
This talk touches on growth pains and inspires people and leaders who may be in tough or challenging seasons that are actually seasons of growth. By sharing some of her own stories and weaving in common growth challenges leaders have, participants walk away with a new mindset/view of their situation, inspiration, and strategies they can lean on in tough seasons of growth.
Leaders leave with practical tools to develop themselves and their teams — not just to grow bigger, but to grow better.
The Secret to Thriving Teams
This session is for leaders who want to move from managing a group of individuals to cultivating a connected, high-performing team aligned around shared purpose. Through story telling Tamika highlights practical strategies for defining team purpose, aligning roles to strengths and needs, and building systems of joint accountability.
Whether you’re leading a team of five or fifty, this session helps you strengthen collaboration, psychological safety, and adaptability — creating a culture where learning is continuous and growth is sustained.
Leaders leave with actionable tools to develop themselves and others while maintaining the energy, trust, and focus that thriving teams require.
“Managing Rogue Emotions”: Emotional Intelligence at Work
This might be for you if you or your team are navigating high-stakes situations where emotions run strong — or where “professionalism” has too often meant suppression.
Tamika helps audiences understand the science and skill of emotional intelligence — how to understand what can activate us subconsciously, lead with empathy while maintaining boundaries, clarity, and accountability. She reframes emotions not as liabilities, but as sources of information and power when understood and expressed well.
Participants walk away with practical tools to recognize emotional cues, manage tension under pressure, and use emotional intelligence as a lever for trust, creativity, and stronger performance.
Scaling What Matters: Leading Growth Without Losing Your Why
This talk is ideal in seasons of expansion, evolution, or renewal. Through leveraging stories of organizations and teams, Tamika helps leaders stay anchored in mission and vision as they grow — clarifying what success looks like and what’s most essential to achieve it.
Through the lens of sustainable leadership, she explores how to align people, culture, and systems so growth strengthens rather than dilutes purpose.
Participants leave with practical tools to focus their energy on what matters most, make values-based decisions, and build the capacity to scale impact without losing clarity or connection to their “why.”
Building Future-Ready Organizations
For leaders navigating hybrid teams, generational shifts, and constant change — this session offers a roadmap for what’s next.
Tamika helps audiences reimagine people strategy for the future of work: how to design teams, culture, and systems that are both flexible and grounded in values.
Attendees gain insight into leading inclusively across difference, leveraging technology thoughtfully, and building cultures of trust that thrive in uncertainty.
This is a forward-looking, energizing session for organizations ready to build beyond the moment.
Tamika transforms lived experience into leadership breakthroughs that shift how teams work and win
Growth-minded leadership
This session is about the mindset and capacity it takes to truly grow — as a leader, as a team, and as an organization.
This talk touches on growth pains and inspires people and leaders who may be in tough or challenging seasons that are actually seasons of growth. By sharing some of her own stories and weaving in common growth challenges leaders have, participants walk away with a new mindset/view of their situation, inspiration, and strategies they can lean on in tough seasons of growth.
Leaders leave with practical tools to develop themselves and their teams — not just to grow bigger, but to grow better.
The Secret to Thriving Teams
This session is for leaders who want to move from managing a group of individuals to cultivating a connected, high-performing team aligned around shared purpose. Through story telling Tamika highlights practical strategies for defining team purpose, aligning roles to strengths and needs, and building systems of joint accountability.
Whether you’re leading a team of five or fifty, this session helps you strengthen collaboration, psychological safety, and adaptability — creating a culture where learning is continuous and growth is sustained.
Leaders leave with actionable tools to develop themselves and others while maintaining the energy, trust, and focus that thriving teams require.
“Managing Rogue Emotions”: Emotional Intelligence at Work
This might be for you if you or your team are navigating high-stakes situations where emotions run strong — or where “professionalism” has too often meant suppression.
Tamika helps audiences understand the science and skill of emotional intelligence — how to understand what can activate us subconsciously, lead with empathy while maintaining boundaries, clarity, and accountability. She reframes emotions not as liabilities, but as sources of information and power when understood and expressed well.
Participants walk away with practical tools to recognize emotional cues, manage tension under pressure, and use emotional intelligence as a lever for trust, creativity, and stronger performance.
Scaling What Matters: Leading Growth Without Losing Your Why
This talk is ideal in seasons of expansion, evolution, or renewal. Through leveraging stories of organizations and teams, Tamika helps leaders stay anchored in mission and vision as they grow — clarifying what success looks like and what’s most essential to achieve it.
Through the lens of sustainable leadership, she explores how to align people, culture, and systems so growth strengthens rather than dilutes purpose.
Participants leave with practical tools to focus their energy on what matters most, make values-based decisions, and build the capacity to scale impact without losing clarity or connection to their “why.”
Building Future-Ready Organizations
For leaders navigating hybrid teams, generational shifts, and constant change — this session offers a roadmap for what’s next.
Tamika helps audiences reimagine people strategy for the future of work: how to design teams, culture, and systems that are both flexible and grounded in values.
Attendees gain insight into leading inclusively across difference, leveraging technology thoughtfully, and building cultures of trust that thrive in uncertainty.
This is a forward-looking, energizing session for organizations ready to build beyond the moment.
“Tamika brings a broad set of skills in creating meaningful and transformative learning experiences. We benefited from her ability to engage both the heart and head.”
“Tamika offers an incomparable experience for leaders looking to upskill their teams in a really intentional way. She was phenomenally energized, personable and knowledgeable and did a stellar job of translating complex content for a large-diverse audience.”
“Tamika is an engaging presenter and draws from personal experiences to give concrete examples that help warm up dialogue for the whole group.”
“Tamika brings a broad set of skills in creating meaningful and transformative learning experiences. We benefited from her ability to engage both the heart and head.”
“Tamika offers an incomparable experience for leaders looking to upskill their teams in a really intentional way. She was phenomenally energized, personable and knowledgeable and did a stellar job of translating complex content for a large-diverse audience.”
“Tamika is an engaging presenter and draws from personal experiences to give concrete examples that help warm up dialogue for the whole group.”
Tamika’s Speaking Process
Tamika shares relatable stories that spark measurable change in how leaders think and lead.
People
Every speaking engagement begins with understanding who’s in the room — the audience, their goals, and their context. Tamika and her team take time to understand what success looks like for your group and tailor the tone, examples, and approach to meet them where they are.
Pathway
From there, we co-design the experience. Whether developing a keynote address, a moderated panel with diverse voices, or an interactive workshop, Tamika curates content and pacing to create an engaging, values-centered experience aligned with your event’s goals.
Practice
Drawing from BFM’s trusted, evidence-based tools and adaptable frameworks, Tamika integrates exercises, reflection prompts, and take-home strategies and resources that help audiences turn insight into action. Her facilitation style invites participation, connection, and practical learning.
Progress
Our work doesn’t end when the session does. Tamika’s team checks in through planning and follow-up to ensure the engagement met your expectations. We can also support with post-event assessments or feedback tools to measure participant engagement and learning outcomes.