Mindful Motivational Speaker

As a speaker and facilitator, I bring wisdom, humor, warmth, and truth, inviting the audience to reconnect to who they are and lead with clarity, courage, and care. ​When I step on the stage, I talk about faith, mindfulness, and the importance of embracing your lived life experience as your superpower to make an impact in the world.

Felicia Tate is a senior People and Culture executive, leadership strategist, executive coach, and speaker with more than 20 years of experience designing and executing enterprise-level human resources strategies that drive organizational performance and workforce effectiveness.

Currently serving as Director of Human Resources within a retail and logistics supply chain organization, Felicia provides full-cycle HR leadership across distribution center operations and partners closely with senior executives to deliver people strategies aligned with business outcomes. She brings a strategic viewpoint to the full talent development lifecycle, advising leaders and program participants on performance management, succession planning, leadership capability, and organizational growth.

Felicia specializes in organizational transformation, leadership and career development, employee and labor relations, change management, executive coaching, and succession planning within complex, high-growth environments. Her approach blends strategic rigor with a people-first mindset, enabling organizations to strengthen leadership pipelines, mitigate risk, and build cultures rooted in accountability, trust, and engagement.

Beyond her executive leadership, Felicia is known for creating brave, human-centered spaces where leaders can slow down, reflect, and lead from their lived experience with intention. Her work bridges mindfulness, leadership, and organizational effectiveness helping leaders move beyond performance and into presence. As a speaker and facilitator, she brings wisdom, warmth, and truth, inviting leaders to reconnect to who they are and lead with clarity, courage, and care. Felicia holds a Master of Arts in Organizational Development and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Management from Roosevelt University. She is certified in Mindful Leadership through the University of Chicago Booth Executive Education and holds additional certifications in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Workplace and Human Performance Improvement.

Through her consulting and coaching work, Felicia partners with organizations and leaders seeking to elevate people strategy, strengthen leadership effectiveness, and create sustainable, values-aligned impact. Outside of work, Felicia enjoys cooking, traveling and spending time with her husband and two children.

A wireless headset microphone (preferred for mobility) or a lavalier lapel microphone to support hands-free, clear, and consistent audio. One technical rehearsal with an on-site technician to test mics, video clips for presentations. Projection screen for presentations, along with a confidence monitor.