Hi, I'm Tara, Owner of TLC Consulting and I'm here to help you develop, manage, and grow your best business. Let's get to work!

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in." - Bill Bradley

Small Businesses

"A small business is an amazing way to serve and leave an impact on the world you live in"

~Nicole Snow

Every Small Business Entrepreneur has a deeply personal 'WHY' behind their business and realizing those 'why's' are rewards for jumping in!

But! The idea of bringing those ideas to life, creating the strategies, systems, and actions that will get you to realizing your vision can be truly overwhelming!

Through a strategic, balanced and tailored approach to developing, managing and growing

YOUR SMALL BUSINESS ~

Tara's passion, skills & experience will help you to chart a path that will take you from

stress to success

in developing, managing, or growing your venture.

Let's get you the 'Why's' that got you here!

Check out my services

Small Business Sector Organizations

Small Businesses are the Heart of our Communities

Through many organizations, small businesses receive training, support, and access to grant funding and supportive programs.

For a broader reach in support to small businesses, Tara creates tailored workshops, courses, and programs in partnership and collaboration with small business sector organizations, municipal governments and funded programs.

Focus areas for training future and existing entrepreneurs focus on developing, growing, and advancing owner knowledge of managing their venture through a lens of planning in risk, financial projections,

operational systems and strategic management.

Let's create a sustainable business sector together!

Check out my projects

A day at the BCEDA representing Community Futures in Kelowna, BC as Business Development Officer for Alberni - Clayoquot

TLC focuses on one to one consulting with small business entrepreneurs to create effective business strategy and planning

About TLC

Small business planning often takes on a corporate tone - sometimes requiring extensive planning well beyond the business owner's start up ideas with corporate jargon and departmental advising that really kind of misses the soul of many small businesses.

As a Small Business Coach and Consultant, Tara works primarily in her niche: Small business support in rural and remote regions from one person market operations, trades and service businesses to fully staffed restauranteurs - the focus is small, rural, and remote.

Business owners in remote areas often want and need an approach that is tailored, community minded, family or lifestyle focused and inclusive of the owner - operators personal needs as much as developing and working into business goals.

Todays business climate is dynamic in ways we would not have imagined 10 years ago. It is an ever shifting playground in which entrepreneurs need to be ready to seize upcoming opportunities; pivot their strategies; and excel in customer service and employee recruitment excellence! To be successful in these areas, a business owner needs to take an honest look at their systems, their plans, their financials, risk and the capacity to develop, manage, and grow their business while maintaining a healthy, happy and prosperous life.

With TLC (fun initials hey?!) we take a tailored approach to assessing, analyzing and administering your business solutions while balancing your external and personal realities into the mix.

A small business needs and deserves to be created in the way that preserves your passion for getting here: your why, while creating and implementing the strategies, systems and services you need to sustain, manage, develop and grow your amazing venture.

International Association of Management Consultants and Management Certification

Organized and Efficient

As my role as a city councilor, I worked with Tara on many projects. She was always well informed on the needs of the project, did extensive research and always came up with well thought out solutions. She knows how to turn ideas into a reality.

Deb Haggard

City of Port Alberni

Creative & Resourceful

Tara and I have worked on numerous grass roots community centered projects and we have been making use of TL Consulting INC to support Indigo’s growth and new business development. Tara is efficient and highly professional and I feel my business needs are a priority when working with her.

Colleen Dykslag

Indigo Staffing Services LTD.

Solution Focused & Reliable

I worked with Tara in my role as Operations Manager with Canadian Red Cross, assisting people affected by the massive BC wildfires in 2017 and 2018. Tara excels at finding solutions for complicated and challenging situations. During our work together, Tara was leading the business recovery programs to provide assistance for impacted small businesses offering much needed support needed to rebuild communities.

Jon Jackson

Regional District Kootenay Boundary

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