Samantha Tassone

President, GrowthFuel

 

Samantha Tassone is President of GrowthFuel, a boutique professional services firm, focused on gender intelligence, how to perform under pressure, and advancing women’s leadership.

 

For more than 20 years, Samantha has worked with public, private, and non-profit organizations and individuals to accelerate their performance. She is experienced in influencing the C-suite and has expertise in driving business strategy with exceptional results. She is a strategist, facilitator, speaker, and performance coach.  

 

Her passion is to grow her client’s personal leadership impact and value, enabling them to perform under pressure, at higher levels. 

 

She launched GrowthFuel to focus on working with women leaders, who stand in their power position, and providing them structure to overcome personal leadership blind spots.  As a Performance Coach, her clients understand and learn the structure to stay empowered and not compromise self-confidence.  We all have performance blind spots and relationship roadblocks, which prevent us from performing and additionally can hold us back from personal success.

 

In her work, she discovered that 21st century leadership is on a very different path. In order to get clarity on your identity as a leader, you must value the male/female gender leadership styles differences. Samantha helps clients create understanding and awareness around Gender Intelligence.

 

GrowthFuel’s clients find her partnering style and knowledgeable approach to be a powerful pathway to learning and positive change.  This valued holistic approach drives growth by aligning people and process with strategy.  Samantha makes a difference in her clients by unlocking their potential and power for self-reflection and self-leadership; therefore, increasing their leadership capacity.  Also, she is effective in building high performing teams, closing the performance gaps, and enabling teams to perform at higher levels.

 

Samantha has been recognized as a strategic human capital leader. As such she recently held a national position, as past VP of Talent Management and prior to that she was the VP of HR for one of the largest regions in the US, for Toshiba’s Copy Division. Prior to Toshiba, she was a business owner, where she consulted with middle market and start up business leaders on leadership and organizational development needs for 8 plus years. Her past corporate experience included HR leadership for Network Associates, Inc. (now McAfee), KPMG in Washington, DC. where she was a  key HR leader  for  three  business  units  (tax,  assurance,  and  consulting) and The  National Capital Bank of Washington on Capital Hill as HR executive driving growth and culture change.

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A graduate of American University in Washington, DC in Executive Human Resource Management and has her B.S. in Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, N.Y.

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