"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
- Mark Twain

Teddy Tannenbaum specializes in executive leadership and works closely with a small, select group of clients with whom he has developed a personal relationship.

Teddy spent more than 25 years consulting for and working in corporations and organizations and has himself been a senior executive and leader. Prior to that, after graduate study in diplomacy in Washington, D.C., he lived in spiritual communities for over a dozen years worldwide while lecturing on and teaching meditation. He recently mused that a person cannot live that much of life in pursuit of self-awareness without finding some along the way. Grounded in those years of concentrated activity in pursuit of inner learning, he demonstrates a distinctive understanding of life.

Teddy brings perspective, sensibility and experience to the corporate leaders he engages with and encourages and strengthens authenticity in leadership. His coaching talents both entertain and enlighten. For people who find themselves continually in the spotlight of performance expectations on both the personal and professional level, Teddy helps them learn to develop the art of executive presence.

Through the design and facilitation of executive off-sites and individual and small group consulting sessions, Teddy's strategy is to raise the level of engagement for effective leadership by challenging the everyday assumptions of organizational dynamics and affirming its authenticity through the lens of self-awareness.

Teddy's recent client list includes executives at The Walt Disney Company, ABC, Whole Foods Market, Nike and The Gap as well as an assortment of smaller ventures in the business, medical and financial arenas.

Personal notes:

Teddy sits on the board of directors of The Achievable Foundation, a non-profit organization that helps people with developmental disabilities achieve more of their full potential.

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.

He keeps his Cubans in a walk-in humidor at the Grand Havana Room.

Teddy acknowledges that life is often seen as a complex proposition. Baseball, on the other hand operates with a certain set of defined rules and realities. In fact, games and sport may have been created because they provide a closed set of parameters with which to model everyday experiences in life. To that end, on certain memorable occasions, he performs his own solo show: "An Evening of Baseball Storytelling: How Life Imitates the Game."