Years active 2003–present | Spouse(s) Matthew Freeman | |
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Born June 13, 1977 (age 39) ( 1977-06-13 ) El Paso, Texas, U.S. Alma mater University of Phoenix (BS, MBA) Occupation Diversity Consultant, Author Books Overcoming Bias: Building Authentic Relationships Across Differences | ||
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Tiffany Jana (born June 13, 1977) is the co-founder of TMI Consulting Incorporated, a diversity and inclusion management consulting firm founded in 2003 and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. TMI Consulting is a benefit corporation as well as a certified B Corporation and earned the 2016 Best for the World honor from the nonprofit B Lab that certifies B Corps worldwide.
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Jana is the co-author of Overcoming Bias: Building Authentic Relationships across Differences (2016, Berrett-Koehler), which received an endorsement from 2016 Vice-Presidential candidate Tim Kaine. TMI consulting is featured in the The B Corp Handbook: How to Use Business as a Force for Good by Ryan Honeyman, and Jana gave a talk in December 2012 as part of TEDxRVAWomen. In 2013, Jana was a winner of both the Style Weekly Top 40 Under 40 award and the Women Worth Watching award from Diversity Journal.
Jana is an international public speaker, having provided the keynote address for the 2015 Hong Kong Social Enterprise Summit, and the Dialogues for Change in several German cities including Berlin, Leipzig, Ludwigsburg, and Bottrop. She participated on a panel as part of Adweek's 2016 Adweek New York conference at Thomson Reuters featuring her book. In August, 2015, Jana was appointed for a 5-year term by the Governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe to the Board of Trustees of the Science Museum of Virginia. On November 11, 2016, Mayor-elect of Richmond, VA, Levar Stoney named Jana as co-chair (with lobbyist and former gubernatorial aide Bill Leighty) of his transition team. Jana was appointed to a four-year term on the Board of Directors of the Richmond Economic Development Authority on January 9, 2017.