“we must be able to imagine otherwise.”
hello, i’m
tasha golden
I’m an international speaker and consultant, career singer/songwriter, and PhD scientist. As a leading expert in Creativity, Behavior, and Wellbeing, I help leaders across industries harness unconventional thinking to spark innovation, reimagine wellness, and drive powerful change.
As a behavioral scientist, I know that understanding how we think and interact can catalyze growth and innovation.
As an artist, I know that creativity leads us to ask new questions and envision new realities. Transformation ensues.
As both, I help you re-see your work and its potential… so you can grow your impact and ignite change.
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When I’m not in nature or hanging out with my partner and pets (or tbh, often even when I am), I explore how humans break out of the status quo and limiting beliefs to reshape our lives, our industries, and our world. I was honored as one of Fierce Pharma’s ‘Fierce 50’ for helping reshape healthcare via integrations of creativity and the arts.
As a neurodivergent artist who researches creativity and wellbeing, my wheelhouse is questioning assumptions, bridging science and real-world action, generating bold ideas, and guiding leaders to re-see their work.
What I do
✔️ keynote speaker
I deliver thought-provoking keynotes internationally for industry leaders and change-makers. Bringing a performer’s sensibility to the stage, I create dynamic, memorable experiences that challenge audiences to think differently and act boldly.
✔️ CONSULTING & ADVISING
I consult for clients ranging from global corporations to regional nonprofits—helping them tap hidden potential, craft innovative strategies, improve wellbeing and resilience, and grow their impact. Combining the rigor of science with a creator’s lens, I help leaders move bold ideas into transformative, real-world action. Get in touch!
✔️ training & workshops
I deliver professional trainings, workshops, and courses that equip leaders and teams to think more creatively, enhance resilience, generate new partnerships, and drive greater impact.
With topics ranging from leadership to wellbeing, communication, and navigating change, I’ve helped thousands of attendees discover new paths to growth—and take their next steps. Ready to go?
✔️ research & evaluation
See PUBLICATIONS for examples of recent research!
“We can’t change what we can’t question”: A STORY
Over years as a touring songwriter, I noticed that my songs about domestic violence or depression made these topics "talk-about-able."
All over the world, listeners stayed after concerts to share with me their own personal encounters with these experiences — often telling their stories for the first time.
What was it about live music concerts that allowed people to tell me what they’d never even told their doctors or loved ones?
AND: What did this mean for our health?
For example: What are doctors missing about their patients, because they aren’t tapping into art’s ability to make things “talk-about-able”?
Similar questions came up when I founded Project Uncaged: a trauma-informed creative writing program for incarcerated girls.
In their poems, participants often revealed crucial information about their lives that wasn’t emerging anywhere else. Why was this?
AND: What are youth leaders and decision-makers missing when they assume that the (non-art) data they have is sufficient?
In fact, what are we ALL missing when we stick to the status quo, instead of getting creative about how we see our work, our challenges, our futures?
Driven by these questions,
I’ve led groundbreaking research on cross-sector collaboration, and the science of arts and health.
I now apply this work with leaders across sectors: helping them harness creativity and science to spark innovation, build wellbeing, and ignite growth.
my transformation
I lost my music career to severe burnout and major depression. During those dark months when I was unable to get out of bed, I had to reimagine my life, my identity, my future.
It was the hardest and most creative work I’ve ever done…
…and it shaped my passion for helping leaders think more creatively. For asking hard questions. For cultivating wellbeing and igniting potential…
For learning to Imagine Otherwise.
We can learn, and we must.
In audiences, clients, research, and my own life, I’ve witnessed how creativity helps us re-see ourselves, our work, and our worlds.
We either dig into this opportunity… or we miss out on profound growth.
Ready to dig in?
