Our CEO and founder Tamara Seif

Tamara Seif

Founder, CEO & Principal HR, Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Consultant and Principal Wellness Officer and Mediator.

Our CEO and founder Tamara Seif is a prolific social justice, Gender Equity advocate and long standing Diversity & Inclusion and HR management Consultant, practitioner, researcher and Ally. Tamara is highly experienced, international HR Leadership Consultant & Workplace Wellbeing coach making it her mantra to help businesses grow, connect and remain agile – whilst remaining inclusive and ethically responsible.

Tamara brings a highly empathetic, client centric, evidence based and outcome-focused approach to her work, both as an executive HR Leader and Diversity Equity and Inclusion practitioner and a DEI researcher and Ally. Tamara is also a qualified and certified British Psychological Society assessor (BPS) and an active member of the Occupational Psychology section UK and a Life Coach certified. Tamara holds an MSc in Business Psychology from City University Business school London and is also a certified Life Coach, Workplace Mediator and an EAP workplace advisor. Tamara also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Development, CIPD London.

Tamara on LinkedIn

Gravitas Consulting on LinkedIn

Top Skills

Diversity, Equity Inclusion & Stakeholder Engagement, HR and DEI strategic action planning (specialist areas of expertise: supporting Accessibility and PwD in the workplace; PsychosocialSafety & Wellbeing in the workplace; Intersectional and Gender Equity; EAP – Employee Assistance Counselling support Rapid Crisis Response management and trauma; Occupational Psychometric profiling and Talent Management mapping – focus on Diversity in Recruitment);
Organisational Development & Redesign;
ESS survey design and action planning;
Governance Risk management & Policy development & Technical writing;

Education

BSc Hon in Psychology, Middlesex University
PG Dip , Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Development, CIPD London.
MSc in Organisational Psychology, City University Business school, London

Accreditations / Memberships

Member British Psychological Society;
Member of Life Coach Institute (UK);
BPS Accredited in Psychometrics and Personality Profiling (Level A & B); British Psychological Society;
Accredited in Diagnostics and Evaluation of psychometric suite of tools: Hogan Development Survey (HDS), Hogan Leadership Survey, 360 Leadership profiling tools, SHL and Saville, DISC (extended); Predictive Index - Behavioural & Cognitive profiling Certified Assesor (2021);
Associate Member Chartered Institute of Personnel (CIPD) London;
Member Australian Human Resource Institute (MAHRI);
Accredited AHRI and CIPD Mentor.
Accredited Member Civil Mediation Council, London (Interpersonal and Workplace Mediator);

Key areas of knowledge: Counselling, personality disorders, business consulting.

counsellor

Michael Bloyce

Educated in economics, business and law, Michael’s career has encompassed many years as a manager in the public and community services sectors; including time as an administrator, venue manager, college lecturer, consultant and personal counsellor.

As a senior business consultant he has experience working within both government and private enterprise and possesses a particular understanding of the political process and environment, within organizations of all sizes.

A passionate, talented and committed personal counsellor with well-developed one-on-one, online and telephone counselling skills, Michael has significant hands-on experience in short-term crisis support, motivational interviewing and solution-focused therapy. He works with clients across many issues including work related problems, grief and loss, relationships, anxiety and depression and general well being.

He has a particular interest and specialization in personality disorders, including narcissism, bipolar, borderline, and paranoid conditions.