You’re working in corporate—and charting your own path.
Tara Mohr’s courses give corporate women the practical tools to move past self-doubt, navigate tough workplace dynamics with clarity, and lead with greater authenticity and impact.
We’re so glad you found us here! The Playing Big programs and community support women facing a wide range of challenges in their work, including:
Growing into a new role
Exploring career changes
Navigating the self-doubt and fear that come with career stretches
Taking initiative to create more fulfilling work, even in difficult organizational contexts
Dealing with overwork, burnout, or work-life challenges
Navigating being the only or first woman
Mentoring and managing others in difficult times
These are some of the things that bring women to our renowned professional development programs, which have helped hundreds of thousands of women around the world. Learn the practical tools to create a career that is thriving, sustainable, and aligned with who you are.
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Participants of the Playing Big trainings report remarkable results
93% report feeling more confident
91% share their ideas more frequently
90% feel reconnected to their passions and dreams
85% are taking more initiative at work
95% report a greater sense that they are “enough” to pursue what matters most
What would it be like to experience these powerful changes in yourself—and to help bring them about for your mentees and team members, too?
What Our Graduates Are Saying
The lessons in the Playing Big course gave me the courage to get specific about what I was looking for at work. As a result, I was asked to lead one of the most visible programs of the year. Because of my work in the Playing Big course, I was able to quiet my self-doubt and step into a role that I wouldn’t have otherwise accepted.
Michelle Schneider
Senior Consultant, Dell, Business Transformation
This is an amazing course! It helped me figure out what my ‘playing bigger’ looks like and how it could be different as life evolves. The course is a nice balance of practical tools, self-reflection and guidance from Tara and resonant stories from others. I thought it was fabulous that I could do this with my own time and without judgment. Overall, I would highly recommend this to other women who desire to make a bigger difference in their lives in an authentic way.
Zeryn Sarpangal
VP of Human Resources & Corporate Affairs, Achaogen, Inc.
Playing Big has brought me clarity, strength and reintroduced me to myself. I say reintroduced me, because when I was younger I played big. But over time, as my career took shape, I went off track to a place that wasn’t true to myself. As a result of Playing Big, I feel the fog has lifted. Now I am taking action to move into a life which is genuine to myself and my callings.
Natalie Galea
Corporate Project Manager
Tara is a brilliant Playing Big guide. She challenges women using courage and compassion to stop playing small and take a leap to achieve the breakthrough that they know is possible but don’t know how to make it happen. Tara has a game changing approach.
Trudy Bourgeois
President & CEO The Center for Workforce Excellence
Tara’s classes have completely changed the way I think about leading and mentoring inside and outside of the workplace. I have a box of Playing Big books under my desk to give away to whoever asks for one, because I find Tara’s approach so effective and wise. It has changed my life, and it might change theirs.
Antonella Pavese
Senior Staff UX Researcher at Google
Playing Big is an absolute game-changer. I loved the book so much that I then registered to do the Playing Big Facilitators Training. The course challenged me to think differently about how I facilitate learning, lead discussions, and create environments where people feel inspired to contribute, learn, and grow. I’ve come away with new techniques and fresh perspectives. And just a note of caution—if you read this book, get ready for your life to change for the better.
Deb Rogers
Vice President, People & Culture, Asia & MENA Region
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The Playing Big Course:
For Your Own Journey
The Playing Big Course is a six-month program where you apply the Playing Big tools to your career and life. Work through your own inner blocks, clarify your boldest goals, and take real action—all within a global community of women doing the same.
If you want to feel less self-doubt, have more capacity to share your voice, and have a practical toolkit to utilize when facing tough challenges at work, this is the course for you.
Whether you’re looking to grow where you are, explore a career pivot, or finally get a passion project off the ground, our Playing Big Course is here to support you.
Playing Big Course
The Facilitators Training:
For the People You Lead
Our Facilitators Training is for those passionate about women’s leadership and empowering others. It includes everything in the Playing Big Course—plus advanced training in how to bring Playing Big coaching and tools to the people you support and mentor.
A favorite with managers, HR and ERG leaders, and executives, the training teaches a proven, deeply human framework for guiding other women. Topics that can feel taboo in the corporate setting—fear, self-doubt, invisibility, meaning—get powerfully addressed with the shared language and practical toolkit of the Playing Big model.
Facilitators Training Course
The Coaching Way:
Take a Coaching Approach as You Mentor, Manage and Lead
The Coaching Way is Tara’s course in coaching skills. Learn how to ask the questions that create real shifts and how to help others find their own solutions so you can stop rescuing and solving for everyone.
This course will help you learn to listen and lead differently, and bring more meaning to every interaction in your workday.
Graduates find that learning to coach becomes one of the most energizing, fulfilling dimensions of their professional life.
The Coaching Way
Past Clients Include:
• Adobe
• American Association of University Women
• Bank of America
• Barnard University
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Danaher
• American Association of University Women
• Bank of America
• Barnard University
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Danaher
• Genentech, Inc.
• GlaxoSmithKline
• Goodreads
• Google
• Forest Ridge School
• Girls Day School Trust
• Harvard Business School
• Intuit
• KPMG
• PwC
• Sony
• Sotheby’s
• Stanford University
• Starbucks Corp.
• UC Berkeley
• United Nations
• United Way
• Urban Land Institute
• Verizon Media
• Walmart
• Yahoo!
• Yelp, Inc.
• Xerox
• Zillow
What is The Playing Big Model?
Tara Mohr’s Playing Big is a set of ideas, practices, and tools for women who want to play bigger — on their own terms.
1
Quiet the Inner Critic
That relentless voice telling you you’re not ready? It’s not the voice of truth — it’s a safety instinct. Playing Big teaches you to recognize it, name it, and stop taking direction from it, so you can lead from your real capabilities instead of your fears.
That relentless voice telling you you’re not ready? It’s not the voice of truth — it’s a safety instinct. Playing Big teaches you to recognize it, name it, and stop taking direction from it, so you can lead from your real capabilities instead of your fears.
2
Access Your Inner Mentor
Through Tara’s signature guided visualization, you’ll connect with a vivid sense of your older, wiser self — and begin using that vision as a compass. How would she approach this client, this pitch, this difficult decision? She becomes your North Star.
Through Tara’s signature guided visualization, you’ll connect with a vivid sense of your older, wiser self — and begin using that vision as a compass. How would she approach this client, this pitch, this difficult decision? She becomes your North Star.
3
Unhook from Praise & Criticism
Women are socialized to be deeply responsive to others’ feedback, which can keep you tailoring your work to please rather than to lead. Playing Big gives you tools to receive feedback without being controlled by it — so you can show up more authentically.
Women are socialized to be deeply responsive to others’ feedback, which can keep you tailoring your work to please rather than to lead. Playing Big gives you tools to receive feedback without being controlled by it — so you can show up more authentically.
4
Communicate & Negotiate with Power
Research shows women often default to speech and writing habits — hedging, qualifying, over-softening — that unintentionally undermine their authority. Playing Big helps you replace them with language that conveys the competence and confidence you already have.
Research shows women often default to speech and writing habits — hedging, qualifying, over-softening — that unintentionally undermine their authority. Playing Big helps you replace them with language that conveys the competence and confidence you already have.
5
Leap Before You’re Ready
Playing big isn’t about grand, dramatic gestures. It’s about taking small, connective steps toward the work that matters most to you — and adopting an experimental, iterative approach to your business, discovering what works through action rather than endless preparation.
6
Clarify Your Callings
If you aren’t sure what your callings are, this module will give you a specific way to figure that out. If you already know, it will help you fulfill them in even more satisfying and bold ways. For entrepreneurs, your callings are the compass for building a business that feels truly yours.
Plus modules on navigating fear, overcoming hiding, goal-setting, and so much more.
What If You're Not Sure You're Ready?
Maybe you're thinking:
I’m already overwhelmed.
I’m not senior enough.
I don’t have time for another program.
I don’t know exactly what my next step is.
I should have figured this out by now.
If any of these thoughts sound familiar, you aren’t alone!
We’ve designed Playing Big for busy women with full lives—and the course hones in on the most high-impact content, accessible live, or flexibly when and how it works for you.
We’ve learned from our participants over 16+ years that no career stage is too senior or junior for these tools—they just get applied in different ways at different times.
You’ll join a thoughtful, ambitious community of women from entrepreneurial settings, social sector organizations, corporations, academia, health and wellbeing, the arts and other industries nonprofits, healthcare organizations, universities, and entrepreneurial settings who are asking shared questions and supporting one another as they step into their own versions of playing bigger.
This is for you if...
You want to lead with more confidence and authenticity.
You’re navigating a promotion, career transition, or leadership challenge.
You want to speak up more frequently and communicate with greater authority.
You’re tired of self-doubt influencing your decisions.
You want your work to feel more meaningful and aligned.
You want practical tools you can apply immediately.
You want to grow alongside a supportive community of women leaders.
Hi, I’m Tara
I’m here to help you step into your unique expression of Playing Big—moving into what calls you, inspires you, and brings you fulfillment, in both work and life.
Early in my work coaching, I started to notice something: often, my brilliant women clients simply couldn’t see their own brilliance. They didn’t see how ready they were to go for their aspirations, to do the work they most longed to do, to bring their visions into reality.
I was quite attuned to this because I was in the same struggle myself. Though I had been a high achiever in both school and work, and I had lots of reasons to feel confident, I found myself holding back, tentative about my ideas, quiet with my voice. And I worked in an organization alongside many brilliant, capable women, but often their talents were underrecognized and their voices sidelined.
My early coaching practice became a laboratory to discover: what really makes the biggest difference in helping women play bigger in the ways that matter most to each of us? What helps us navigate the very flawed systems we are part of, so we can create sustainable, fulfilling careers that have positive impact?
What I discovered led to the development of the unique Playing Big model—a toolkit that helps women thrive in work and life: quieting the inner critic, tapping into our inner wisdom, unhooking from fear and criticism, moving through fear, and much more.
Free Resources
10 Rules For Brilliant Women
The article that went viral and launched a movement. A sharp, practical manifesto on why brilliant women play small—and ten principles for stopping. The free downloadable workbook includes reflection questions and exercises for each rule.
Playing Big: The Inner Critic
The full first chapter of Tara’s bestselling book, available as a free download. It introduces the inner critic—what it is, why it’s not the voice of truth, and how to recognize its patterns so it stops running your career decisions.
10 Big Ideas That Guide Our Work
The philosophical foundation of the Playing Big model in Tara’s own words—including why we don’t need confidence to play big, why inner work is part of women’s empowerment, and what “playing big” actually means (it’s probably not what you think).
FAQs
I want to play bigger, but I already feel exhausted and overwhelmed, and I’m trying to do less in my life. How does this fit with that?
Here, we embrace an inside-out definition of playing big. Playing big isn’t about striving harder or doing more. It is about honestly accepting one’s true aspirations and callings and playing big in going for them. Because it leads to us being more aligned with our authentic selves, and more tapped into our passions, playing big generally creates more energy, less stress, and far less striving in our lives. It’s an alternative to perfectionistic go-go-going—a deeper path of self-actualization.
What if I don’t know yet how I want to Play Big?
That’s okay. Some participants come to our community with a specific idea of what playing bigger looks like for them. Others aren’t sure, but find that the skills and tools we learn in the course allow them to play bigger in all areas of their lives and support them as their next passion or professional direction emerges.
What is the typical age or career stage of people in the Playing Big community?
First of all, if you are asking yourself this question and wondering if you’ll be in a different stage of life than the group, we want you to know you aren’t alone! This question comes up a lot for people considering our programs.
The usual age range of course participants is 30s through 70s, with a strong, roughly equal sized cohort in each decade!
We have many participants who are mid-career and are moving into new kinds of playing big. Others are senior in their organizations. We also have many participants who connect with this community when they are on the verge of retirement or are thinking of pursuing a new calling in their 50s, 60s or beyond. And we’re happy to report that women in all stages of their careers report that they find the Playing Big toolkit extremely valuable.
How can our programs work for people of such wide-ranging ages and stages? Think of these as your long-term, foundational toolkits for support in reaching your career or contribution aspirations. People come back to the Playing Big model again and again—as new life chapters provoke new kinds of self-doubt, or require a reconnection with our inner wisdom.
You will be in good company no matter your career stage. If you’d like, our private course discussion group will allow you to connect with others who are at a similar stage in life to you.
What's the difference between the Playing Big Course and Facilitators Training?
In the Playing Big Course, you focus on your own playing big goals and journey, through 12 powerful modules where you apply the Playing Big tools in your own life and career. You’ll learn to quiet your inner critic, access your inner wisdom, unhook from praise and criticism and much more. Think of it as a multi-faceted personal and professional growth experience to help you achieve your playing big dreams.
The Facilitators Training includes that work plus training in how to support others in their playing big. You get access to the full Playing Big Course, as well as to our Facilitators Training. You’ll learn tools and coaching practices to work with others around their playing big—and get materials to use with those you support, and dedicated time to practice your new coaching skills with others in the course.
How can I use The Coaching Way and Facilitators Training tools in my work managing or leading?
Our programs offer a set of tools and concepts that you can easily integrate into your own approach to managing, mentoring, advising, or coaching. Our graduates working in corporate organizations often share that the Coaching Way and Facilitators Training skills have taught them a far more effective approach to managing and leading. Key skills developed include: deeper and better listening, tools for building trust, more skill in empowering others to solve problems, greater ability to get to the deeper blocks and issues with team members, and managing across differences in identity more effectively.
Coaching can enhance and elevate any field of work where we are supporting others—whether in their personal or professional goals.
I’ve had a successful corporate career, and I’m thinking about moving into coaching in some fashion. Would these programs be good for me?
Yes! Many of our corporate women are in just this situation. Some are thinking about focusing fully on executive coaching once they step back from their full time role. Others want to combine coaching and corporate work for a while. Others have discovered they find the coaching and mentoring aspects of their days the most fulfilling part of their work, and they want to lean more into coaching day-to-day in their current work. Our programs are a great fit for all of this. You’ll learn coaching skills, get acquainted with the field, practice coaching others, see powerful coaching in action—with debriefs deconstructing coaching sessions, and more.
Do you have something I can give my employer regarding sponsorship? How do I register through my employer?
Yes! Women have attended the Playing Big programs sponsored by a wide range of corporate employers, from Google to Genentech, to law and finance firms, to many other kinds of companies. We have a document you can provide your employer with information about our programs, and how they can benefit both you and your organization. You can download the document here.
We have several options for companies registering an employee, or group of employees, in our programs. Feel free to email us at team@taramohr.com if you have any questions. We are here to help!
Is this just for people who identify as women?
We’re passionate about seeing a world where diverse individuals from all identities are leading and having impact. Much of the content in Playing Big explores challenges women face, and much of the content is applicable to people of all identities.
Individuals of all genders are welcomed as full participants in our programs. Graduates of the Facilitators Training and The Coaching Way can take what they’ve learned and integrate into work with any population they desire to support.
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The next cohorts of the Playing Big Course & the Playing Big Facilitators Training open for registration in September 2026.
The Coaching Way’s next live cohort runs March–May 2027. Join the advance notice list to be the first to know about these programs — and to receive early bird pricing.
