About TJA
Too often, leaders limit themselves with conventional beliefs. But if you’re here, you probably suspect there’s another way of leading that is unconventional—more invigorating, effective and adventurous. More you. That’s what TJALeadership is about. We were founded to help leaders like you ditch what you’ve been told and embrace who you really are.
Three essential conversations you will benefit from exploring:
Harnessing the power of responsibility
Responsibility is about your sovereignty in life. It’s widely misunderstood—fraught with blame and fault-finding. We have a very different point of view to share with you that is unconventional and empowering. If it’s attractive to you to experience how much power you have over your life and how much is possible, then you’ll benefit from what we have to share.
Living with integrity
It was Dolly Parton who said “find out who you are and do it on purpose”. Yet so many leaders get caught up in the demands of their jobs, lose sight of who they are and end up “trading passion for glory”. We’re about helping you integrate passion and performance so you can be successful and deeply satisfied—no need ever to betray who you are.
Communicating authentically
We believe anything is possible with communication. But most people walk around with fear, unaware of it as a habit, and what that habit is doing to their communication and their wellbeing. In working with us, you will find that there are no “difficult” or “hard” conversations. You can learn to communicate effectively in any situation, and improve your relationships with all the people in your life, from your colleagues to your famiily.
Founder:
Tom Andrews
Tom started TJA Leadership in 2018 with a mission to reduce the fear and finger-pointing that harms leadership teams and the organizations they lead. He had spent the prior 19 years in management consulting at SYPartners, working side by side with some of the most daring CEOs in the US as they led large-scale change efforts. Tom’s always loved language—he studied German and French at Cambridge in the UK—and his early years were in journalism and publishing. That love for language now informs a uniquely attentive form of coaching, where he helps clients come to see what habits of thinking are working and not working for them through a shared exploration of the language they use. The effects have been so consistently beneficial that clients have engaged Tom to work with family members.
Tom has taught leadership at Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs, the US Military Academy at West Point, and GE’s Crotonville management academy. He writes a bi-monthly blog that you would love—and that you can sign up for here. When he’s not coaching, he might be found out on the trails of upstate New York, or swinging a kettlebell, or hanging out with his wife in the kitchen, their favorite room.
A collective
Clients either work with Tom or one of the coaches he selects in the TJA network. When the work calls for something outside of our scope, we will refer you within a network of experts that we’ve benefited from knowing. They include purpose-driven strategy consultants, project managers, social scientists and designers.