I repair culture, restore trust, and strengthen leadership so organizations can perform at their highest capacity.
Leadership & Organizational
Wellness Consultant
Executive Advisor | Culture
Strategist | USC Adjunct
Professor
Because your people are committed but they’re carrying more than ever and we believe that because success and healing belong together.
I am not here to inspire
temporary change.
I partner with organizations to create cultural transformation that lasts For more than 18 years, I’ve led leadership development, culture strategy, and employee engagement initiatives across Fortune 100 companies, universities, and public-sector agencies — impacting more than 100,000 employees.
My work strengthens leadership capacity, restores trust, and builds organizations where people can lead well without burning out
What I Do
I support organizations that are navigating cultural strain, leadership burnout, or workforce misalignment.
I provide:
Leadership Development &
Executive Coaching
Employee Engagement &
Culture Strategy
Burnout Prevention &
Organizational Wellness
Change Leadership & Trust
Repair
Team Alignment &
Communication Strengthening
The goal: a stable, aligned, emotionally intelligent leadership culture that performs
Signature Partnership
The Leadership & Organizational
Wellness Partnership™
3–12 Month Consulting
Engagement
Designed for executive teams and organizations committed to building healthy leadership and a culture that lasts.
Includes:
• Leadership Development
Circles
• Executive Advisory Support
• Culture & Engagement Strategy
• The REST Leadership Framework™ for sustainable performance
Investment:
Partnerships begin at $7,500/month
It's Time to Come Home to Yourself
Tenita, LLC was founded on a simple truth: even the most driven leaders need a space to rest and be seen. We understand what it feels like to carry the weight of the world—to be running on empty while quietly giving your all.
Through heartfelt Coaching, strategic Consulting, and soul-nourishing Curated Experiences, Tenita helps you create a path back to yourself. We walk beside you as you release the exhaustion, reconnect with your purpose, and reclaim the joy and confidence to lead and live fully.
Redefining
Wholeness!
It’s time to give wholeness
a new meaning.
Redefining
Wholeness!
t’s time to give wholeness a new meaning.
For women who lead
The REST Leadership Collective™ Leadership Development & Personal Restoration for Women in Leadership
This program helps high-capacity women return to themselves — so they can lead with clarity, grounded confidence, and emotional well being
Mission
To help women and purpose-driven leaders live fully, lead boldly, and rest deeply through coaching, creative wellness, and culinary care.
Vision
To build a movement that transforms how women lead, rest, and rise at work, at home, and in community through soulful strategy, radical self-awareness, and curated spaces that nurture healing, growth, and belonging.
Vision
To redefine what success looks like for high-achieving women — centering rest, self-trust, and alignment instead of constant hustle.
Purpose
To create spaces, strategies, and experiences that remind women their power doesn’t come from doing more — it comes from being whole.
Rooted in Southern California, Inspiring Women Everywhere
Based in Los Angeles, TeNita Ballard has spent nearly two decades helping women and mission-driven organizations lead with intention and rest. Her work includes partnerships with the City of Los Angeles and other Southern California initiatives focused on emotional wellness and leadership development.
As a certified coach, speaker, and contributing author to the anthology Greatness Is Your Journey (LJSpeaks Publishing, 2023), TeNita shares practical wisdom and lived experience to help women turn burnout into balance and ambition into alignment.
Take the course
Let's do the work
Time to jump off the rat wheel! Don't waste another year teetering around the idea of true self-growth. My M.A.P it out accelerator will empower you to let go of the version of you that is complacent and frustrated.
It's time time to enjoy life, by building better habits of personal growth.
About TeNita Ballard, MBA
TeNita Ballard is a Leadership & Organizational Wellness Consultant, Culture Strategist, Executive Advisor, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California.
She has shaped culture and leadership strategy for Intel, AT&T, and the County of Los Angeles, and has taught leadership development to emerging and experienced leaders at USC.
TeNita is known for helping leaders lead well — with clarity, compassion, and authority.
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Let's work together
If you’re ready to explore how rest and strategy can coexist, fill out the form. Whether you’re seeking private coaching, a team experience, or a wellness-centered event, I’ll help you design the right path forward.
The M.A.P method
My signature framework blends mindset work, emotional grounding, and intentional practice to help women build lives that sustain them — not drain them.
Mindset: Reframe the beliefs that drive burnout and perfectionism.
Acceptance: Embrace identity beyond performance and practice self-forgiveness.
Practice: Build embodied habits and boundaries that protect your rest and energy.
The M.A.P method
A restorative and results-driven framework that guides your journey from burnout to boldness:
Mindset – Reframing the beliefs that drive burnout.
Acceptance – Grounding in identity beyond performance and practicing forgiveness.
Practice - Embodied habits, boundaries, and intentional rituals for sustained rest and alignment.
It’s Time to Redefine Success
You don’t need to prove your worth — you need to protect your peace. Together, we’ll build a version of success that feels like freedom.
Take the Course
Let’s Do the work
Time to jump off the rat wheel! Don’t waste another year teetering around the idea of true self-growth. My M.A.P it out accelerator will empower you to let go of the version of you that is complacent and frustrated.
It’s time time to enjoy life, by building better habits of personal growth.
