Originally from London in the United Kingdom, Tamsen moved to the beautiful Somerset, with her Fiance, Si, and will be getting married soon in Mauritius. She is blessed to have two adult step children and three nieces and nephews. Tamsen absolutely loves cats and her hobbies include: travelling the world, exploring the tastes of different cheeses and Eastern methodology. She dislikes injustice, celery and the colour yellow!
Tamsen is driven by her values, and many of the choices that she has made in her life has been informed by her innate need to be helpful to others, and her desire, to be the best version of herself that she can be. This means that she invests a lot of her time and energy into her own personal development.
Tamsen has worked in the field of people, team & organisation development for over 20 years, initially in an ‘Operational Management’ and ‘Human Resources’ capacity in the corporate sector, and later in the ‘SME sector’, as a business owner, a leader, a manager and a coach. Now, as ‘Director of People and Culture’ at Catalyst Care Group, she is responsible for leading and overseeing people experience, promoting positive culture, and optimising people contribution and impact.
In addition to being a Trustee of Catalyst Foundation, where she joined in 2019, she also sits on the Board of both ‘Inspired to Change Ltd’ and ‘Mental Health In The Workplace Ltd’, both of which are as obsessed as Catalyst Care Group with driving transformation in their sectors.
Some of Tamsen’s greatest achievements include building a team that created the largest joined up business network in the United Kingdom between 2008 and 2011, writing and publishing her book ‘The Act of Attraction in Business’ in 2012, being named ‘Most Inspirational Leader’ in 2019 and 2020 by Women Mean Biz, and Catalyst Care Group, through her support, gaining ‘Great Place To Work’ accreditation in 2022.
“I became a Trustee of the Catalyst Foundation in 2019 because I believed in Mayda Mapondera (C.E.O. of Catalyst Foundation) and in her vision. I was honoured to be given the opportunity to take on this important role and saw this as a challenge, as I had never been a Trustee before. Despite the Trustee role seeming very daunting at first, I was motivated by the opportunity to learn, as well inspired by the opportunity to utilise the skills that I have been privileged to develop over the years, to enable young girls, less privileged, to do the same.
What most excites me about Catalyst Foundation’s future is the endless impact possibilities that it has, now that the model has been tested and the outcomes speak for themselves.
To our beneficiaries: If you were to prioritise developing one thing in your life, make it your belief in yourself, and while you are working on that, borrow our belief in you. Because we truly do!”
