About Dr.Tara
Dr. Tara Phelps-Jones Bio
Dr. Tara Phelps is a native of Forest, Virginia where she grew up in a tight-knit family. Upon
graduating from Barber-Scotia College in Concord, North Carolina, she completed her Masters Degree at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. She completed her Doctorate of Education (Ed. D.) in Organizational Leadership at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion,Indiana.
Dr. Phelps-Jones is a results-oriented, consensus-builder, highly motivated professional with over 25 years of experience with the Government service. Her career in the government has afforded her the opportunity to travel to vast parts of the United States and throughout Europe. Her areas of expertise include conflict resolution, servant leadership, transformational leadership, emotional intelligence, and organizational leadership. Dr. Phelps-Jones’s dedication to service and excellence makes her an invaluable asset.
In addition to her dissertation, An Examination of organizational Trust, interpersonal Trust and Gender in a Religious Organization in the Midwest Region of the United States, Dr.Phelps-Jones co-authored a devotional entitled, Fit for Your Future. Her books, Lessons from the Dirt Road: Moving from Embarrassment to Empowerment and A Psalm of Sandra is currently being published.
She is an ordained minister and leads the Midwestern District Council Missionary and
Christian Women’s Auxiliary, 12th Episcopal District of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the
World, fifty-seven churches. Dr. Phelps-Jones is the founder of Sisters Who Excel Every Time (SWEET), an organization created to encourage, inspire and empower women in the field of leadership. She is the founder of Ladies in Leadership Mentoring Program. She serves as a midwife to women who are pregnant with vision and potential.
”Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough.”
Mary McLeod Bethune