Tamsen Webster, MA, MBA
Education
Teachers College, Columbia University
Doctor of Education - EdD, AEGIS (Adult Education Guided Intensive Study) 2024-03-01 - 2027-12-01
Southern Methodist University
MBA, Organizational Behavior (Management Communications) 1995-01-01 - 1997-01-01
Southern Methodist University
MA, Arts Administration (Visual Arts, Public Relations) 1995-01-01 - 1997-01-01
Boston University
BA, American Studies, Art History Minor 1991-09-01 - 1995-05-01
Boston University
BS, Business Administration (Marketing/Market Research) 1991-01-01 - 1995-01-01Work Experience
Message Design Institute
Current
Message Design Institute
TEDxNewEngland
Current
TEDxNewEngland
Core Messaging
Current
Core Messaging
TEDxCambridge
2013-11-01 - 2025-02-01
TEDxCambridge
Find The Red Thread
2016-06-01 - 2024-04-01
Find The Red Thread
Oratium
2013-12-01 - 2017-07-01
Oratium
Allen & Gerritsen
2011-07-01 - 2013-11-01
Allen & Gerritsen
WeightWatchers
1999-08-01 - 2013-01-01
WeightWatchers
Sametz Blackstone Associates
2009-01-01 - 2011-06-01
Sametz Blackstone Associates
Harvard Medical School
2005-10-01 - 2008-12-01
Harvard Medical School
Skills
Summary
What do Weight Watchers, ballroom dancing, marathon running, and TEDx Talks have in common? For Tamsen Webster, the answer is, “Me.” For Tamsen’s clients and audiences, the answer is the Red Thread™—the universal tie between how people see the world and what they do in it. Part keynote speaker, part message strategist, and full-time “Idea Whisperer”, Tamsen uses her proprietary Red Thread method to help audiences, organizations, and individuals build and tell the story of their big ideas. The result? Real, transformative change. Tamsen’s own Red Thread is woven through more than 20 years as a brand and message strategist. She holds an MBA in Management Communications and Organizational Behavior, an MA in Arts Administration (Public Relations and Crisis Communications) and bachelor’s degrees in American Studies and Marketing—but Tamsen believes she learned the most about inspiring change in her 13 years as a Weight Watchers leader. As Executive Producer of TEDx Cambridge, one of the largest and longest-running TEDx Talks in the world, Tamsen coached everyone from a 10-year old sartorialist to a pervasive roboticist to a bioethics pioneer to build their RedThreads™ into Ideas Worth Spreading. Now she’s a globe-hopping keynote speaker on storytelling, branding, change management, and idea development, and a go-to consultant for enterprise companies like Verizon, Johnson & Johnson, and State Street Bank who want their big ideas to have an even bigger impact. When she’s not in the spotlight—or helping others own theirs—Tamsen pursues (adequate!) ballroom dancing and runs the occasional (reluctant!) marathon. She lives in Boston with her fantastic other half, and two amazing boys with big ideas all their own.
