About TeNita Ballard, MBA
I repair culture, restore trust, and
strengthen leadership so
organizations can perform at
their highest capacity.
I am a Leadership & Organizational Wellness
Consultant, Cultural Strategist, Executive Advisor, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California. For more than 18 years, I have led complex culture, leadership, and employee engagement work
across Fortune 100 companies, public-sector institutions, and mission-driven organizations.
My work supports leaders and organizations who are navigating growth, change, and the emotional realities of leadership under pressure. I help them stabilize culture, rebuild trust, and lead with grounded clarity without burning out themselves or their teams.
Because rest Isn't a Retreat t's a Return to Power
You’ve led teams, families, even entire organizations.
You’re the one everyone turns to when they need clarity, strength, or a miracle under pressure.
But behind the titles and responsibilities…
You’re exhausted.
You’ve been holding it all together while quietly unraveling inside.
You long for rest—not the kind that makes you step away from who you are, but the kind that brings you home to yourself.
My Background
I have worked across corporate, government, academic, and community ecosystems, shaping leadership practices and employee experience for more than 100,000 employees.
My experience includes:
Inter Corporation
Leadership & inclusion strategy
across global teams
AT&T/DirecTV
Enterprise culture + employee
resource group leadership
Country of Los Angeles
Countywide leadership
development and equity
strategy
University of Southern
California
Instructor in
leadership & organizational
change
This multi-sector experience allows me to work at the intersection of:
Leadership capacity, Culture and communication
systems, Organizational well-being and
performance, Equity-centered change and
belonging.
My approach
My work is built on The REST
Leadership Framework™ a
grounded approach to
strengthening leadership identity,
emotional intelligence, and trust
capacity.
It is not performative.
It is not theoretical.
It is not “feel-good” programming.
It is leadership maturity in real
time inside the ways people
think, communicate, regulate,
respond, and influence culture
every day.
The belief that anchors my work:
When leaders are well,
organizations perform.
Not the other way around.
What I'm known for
• Clarifying leadership presence and communication under pressure
• Rebuilding trust in fractured or exhausted work environments
• Creating emotionally intelligent leadership cultures
• Strengthening teams through alignment, respect, and psychological safety
• Helping leaders lead without abandoning themselves
I bring calm authority, strategic clarity, and emotional steadiness into rooms where difficult work is being done.
My philosophy
Leadership is not just strategy.
Leadership is self-regulation, clarity, honesty, and identity.
Culture is not posters and memos.
Culture is how people treat each other when no one is watching.
Well-being is not a perk.
Well-being is infrastructure.
When leaders are grounded, cultures stabilize.
When trust is repaired, performance rises.
When people can lead without self-abandonment, everything changes.
Let's work
If your organization is navigating change, exhaustion, misalignment, or culture strain — I can help you stabilize and
rebuild.
At TeNita, we're here for you
At TeNita LLC, we see you — the high-achieving Black woman or mission-driven leader carrying the weight of the world while quietly running on empty.
When burnout, overwhelm, and isolation have dimmed your light, we’re here to help you breathe again.
Through heartfelt coaching, intentional consulting, and soul-nourishing spaces for connection, we walk beside you as you release the exhaustion, reconnect with your purpose, and reclaim the joy and confidence to lead and live fully in alignment with who you are.
Redefining
Wholeness!
t’s time to give wholeness a new meaning.
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.
Let’s start with you
This judgement-free zone is where owning your mistakes and building healthy walls are encouraged and welcomed. we walk back troubled mindsets and create new ones with a renewed sense of self-worth and passion to succeed.
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.