Executive Coach · AI Governance Advisor · Speaker

Lead with Clarity. Decide with Confidence.

Tasha (TC) Cooper, Esq., PCC

I partner with executives, founders, and legal professionals to strengthen leadership, navigate change, and make sound decisions. My work brings together executive coaching, AI leadership education, and practical AI governance.

Executive Coaching

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AI Governance

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Keynote Speaking

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Human Judgement

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Responsible Leadership

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Executive Coaching

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AI Governance

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Keynote Speaking

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Human Intelligence Value Mapping

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Responsible Leadership

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Work with TC

Ways To Work Together

Strengthen your leadership, prepare your team for AI, or bring a practical conversation to your next event. Explore executive coaching, speaking, and AI governance advisory tailored to your goals.

Coaching

Personal Executive Coaching

A confidential space to think clearly, strengthen executive presence, and navigate your next chapter. Together, we clarify your priorities, examine consequential decisions, and turn insight into purposeful action.

Speaking and Education

Speaking and Exeutive Education

Keynotes, workshops, and facilitated conversations on human judgment, AI leadership, and responsible innovation. Practical ideas for executives, boards, legal teams, and professional audiences.

Consulting and Advisory Services

AI Governance Advisory

Through UpwardAction® Advisory, I partner with organizations to define how AI is used, who is accountable, and where human judgment leads. Services include governance frameworks, tabletop simulations, and workforce education.

Experience Behind the Work

Meet Coach TC

Artificial intelligence is changing the way we work, lead, and make decisions. But after more than twenty-five years as an attorney, executive advisor, and former Chief Privacy Officer, I’ve learned that the hardest leadership challenges have never been purely technical. They are human.

Today I advise organizations and coach leaders navigating AI, emerging technology, and change. My work combines legal and governance expertise with executive coaching to help leaders make sound decisions, build trustworthy organizations, and identify the unique human contribution that technology cannot replace.

Whether I’m speaking from a stage, facilitating a leadership conversation, or advising an executive team, my goal is the same: to translate complexity into practical action so leaders can move forward with clarity and confidence.

Professional Education for Leaders

AI Leadership Education

Use AI with Intention. Protect Your Judgment. Lead with confidence. 

AI is changing how professionals research, communicate, and make decisions. Effective use requires the judgment to evaluate an output, recognize its limits, and decide what happens next.

My educational programs create space to practice these decisions through realistic scenarios, useful frameworks, and reflection on the responsibilities of your role.

Explore public sessions, focused decision practice, and customized training for your organization. Visit the Events page for current programs and registration.

UPCOMING EVENTS

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ON-DEMAND LEARNING

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ORGANIZATIONAL TRAINING

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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ON-DEMAND LEARNING

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AI Leadership Education

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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ON-DEMAND LEARNING

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ORGANIZATIONAL TRAINING

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The AI-Ready Leader

Practical conversations about leading, deciding, and working responsibly with AI.

Explore how to evaluate AI recommendations, protect independent thinking, and recognize when a decision requires human review.

Virtual and in-person training addresses the questions leaders face as AI becomes part of everyday work, from maintaining professional standards to establishing team expectations.

Find your next opportunity to learn with Coach TC. 

 

LOOKING FOR A FOCUSED PRACTICE EXPERIENCE?

Explore the Unique Human Contribution™ Decision Lab to examine how your judgment, experience, and professional responsibilities shape your use of AI.  

Click here to join our monthly AI activation at the Unique Human Contribution™ Decision Lab.

Unique Human Contribution™ Decision Lab

AI can produce an answer in seconds. You still need to decide whether to use it, question it, revise it, or seek another perspective.

Practice decisions that matter in your work:

• Evaluate AI outputs before acting on them.
• Recognize when context or professional standards require closer review.
• Build an audit trail and explain the reasoning for your AI-influenced decision-making.

HUMAN JUDGEMENT IN PRACTICE.
CLICK HERE to explore the current program format, enrollment options, and what is included.

AI Training for Your Organization

Create shared expectations for how your people use AI and exercise professional judgment.

• AI Fluency for Executives and Boards.
• Responsible Use for Leaders and Licensed Professionals.
• Practical scenarios for review, escalation, and accountability. 

CUSTOMIZED FOR YOUR TEAM

Bring your organization’s roles, responsibilities, and decision challenges into the conversation.

 

identify your UNIQUE HUMAN CONTRIBUTION™ Profile

Unique Human Contribution™ Assessment

You have a Unique Human Contribution™. It’s time to discover it.

AI changes how work gets done, but it can never replace the value only you can create. This assessment helps you identify, articulate, and activate your unique strengths so you can make better decisions, lead with greater confidence, and create your greatest impact.

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Identify

Identify the value only you can create before deciding what AI should do.

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Articulate

Turn complexity into clarity, confident decisions, and decisive action.

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Activate

Lead with greater confidence by putting your unique strengths into action.

TC in ACTION

Leading through change.

Watch TC connect leadership, AI governance, and professional responsibility through practical examples and clear questions leaders can bring into their own work.

What Clients and Participants Have to Say

TC has the perfect blend of information privacy expertise, legal insight, executive experience, innovation, and visionary thinking around AI. What makes her especially impactful is that she brings all of this together with authenticity, humanity, compassion, kindness, warmth, and a natural coaching finesse. She has a gift for helping people understand AI not as a replacement for human intelligence, but as an accelerator of it. Her consultation illuminated the essential role of human intellect, insight, inspiration, judgment, and personal touch in this new era. I walked away with a deeper appreciation for how AI can be leveraged thoughtfully and responsibly to support both organizational growth and individual endeavors

Dr. Rashida Dorsey-Johnson WisdomBuilds

We recently hosted a popular Lunch & Learn with attorney and advisor TC Cooper, who many will remember as one of the first to help lawyers build a presence on social media. Now she’s leading important conversations about how attorneys can responsibly integrate AI into daily practice. Her session was practical, energizing, and grounded in the realities of legal work — not hype.

Kaitlin McGee DC Bar Association

TC gave one of the best programs on AI for law firms that I've seen.

Dan Mills DC Bar

I attended a Branding Brilliance workshop that T.C. co-facilitated which was filled with extremely useful information that I was able to implement right away. If you are looking to Brand your business, T.C. is definitely a great resource to help you clarify your goals. I want to personally thank T.C. for her coaching and suggestions, she's incredible!

Darlene Willman DTM

TC brings clarity, intelligence, and real-world strategy to conversations about AI in a way that feels both empowering and immediately actionable. Her session challenged me to think deeper about how AI and human intelligence can work together to expand impact, communication, and leadership without losing authenticity. I left the session with fresh ideas, sharper perspective, and a stronger understanding of how to thoughtfully integrate AI into my work and brand strategy. Her value extends far beyond the session itself.

Marenda Hughes Marenda Media | Color With Marenda

The Philosophy

“Judgment technology cannot replace.”

— TC Cooper, Founder of UpwardAction®
Clarity Alignment Impact Responsible Leadership Human Intelligence

Faith & Technology

The Faithgineer®

Reflections at the intersection of faith, leadership, and technology for leaders navigating a changing world through faith, wisdom, and discernment.

AI & Leadership

The AI-Ready Leader

Practical ideas, frameworks, and insights for leaders navigating AI, human intelligence, trust, and the future of work.