Tamarra Causley Robinson ’90

As an undergraduate at Montclair State University, Tamarra Causley Robinson ’90 was a resident assistant and assistant manager in Residence Life, a position that highlighted her compassion for humanity and showcased her natural talents of creating community and growing leaders. “I helped manage the safety of all students while ensuring that their experience was enjoyable. This shaped me in many different ways,” says Causley Robinson. Compassion and inclusiveness have been woven into her business career.

Causley Robinson is founder and CEO of TCR Coaching. The goal of TCR, which stands for Tenacity, Courage and Resilience, is to ensure that every woman achieves those unprecedented and unfathomable accomplishments she didn’t initially believe she could realize. “There are times when women sometimes feel like they have to sacrifice their authenticity in order to get along, in order to be what others believe they ought to be in order to succeed. The work I do with my clients is to help them to know that’s not necessarily true while also helping them to get to a place where they can own who they are and be all that they believe they can be,” says Causley Robinson.

TCR’s mission grew out of Causley’s relationship with her mom. “My mother sacrificed quite a bit for my sister and I to have something more than what she had had in her life,” she says. Before founding TCR Causley Robinson worked in IT at PwC for nearly 20 years. In her last year there, she became PwC’s Diversity Leader. “They were going to outsource everything that was connected to IT support in the US and the diversity leader went out on maternity leave,” says Causley Robinson. The relationships she forged in HR paved the way for a smooth transition to that role, one she’d been eager and suited to fill. “I was always involved in something diversity-related through my career at PwC. Just to give voice, one of the things that seems to iterate with me. To speak and to have a voice or give voice to something or an area others may not have been able to do that,” says Causley Robinson. “There’s still a struggle for women in particular. Still a struggle for women of color.” Causley Robinson recently completed the Ignite Entrepreneurs program sponsored by the Feliciana Center for Entrepreneurship + Innovation and actively participates on Montclair State University’s MBA Advisory Board.