Tammy Hughes

Chief Executive Officer and Workshop Facilitator
The Heim Group, LLC

Biography

Tammy is a dynamic speaker, author, and business leader with over two decades of experience in a broad spectrum of organizations and industries around the globe. She launched her career at Xerox Corporation in their Corporate Education and Training Division. She began as a Training Director at The Heim Group in 1995, spearheaded the design of the highly successful GenderSpeak workshop. She became the President in 2005 and the CEO in 2019.

For 25 years now, Tammy has explored the research on how women and men relate to and evaluate situations differently, depending on the lens they wear.  Helping audiences understand what is functional and appropriate in both gender cultures drives her, so participants can wear both sets of lenses and read people more accurately and evaluate fairly. Participants’ response to Tammy as a session leader has been overwhelmingly positive. She is fascinated by and knowledgeable about gender and generational differences—and her passion permeates her energetic style. She paints the research with fun, real-life stories from the workplace and personal life. 

Traveling around the globe, Tammy delivers humorous/content-rich keynotes, executive sessions and workshops. Additionally, she offers executive coaching and panel moderation. Some of her clients include: McDonald’s Corporation, Procter & Gamble, GE, Novartis, Google, Credit Suisse, Merial, ESPN, Microsoft, Deutsche Telekom and Eli Lilly. 

She holds a BAAS degree from Midwestern State University in Texas. With Pat Heim, Tammy is co-author of the third edition of Hardball for Women (Plume, 2015). Tammy is the author of a white paper, “Born in One Generation, Thinking Like Another”. Tammy lives in Texas in the U.S. She is married and has two adult sons.