Build your magnetic authority brand and become the obvious choice for speaking, media and high-level opportunities
Thought Leader Activation is a six-month authority-building ecosystem for experienced experts who are ready to transform their expertise into a remarkable thought leadership brand.
This is how you become the person podcasters seek, journalists quote and organisations book because your ideas are clear, commercially relevant and culturally resonant.
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You are experienced. Qualified. Credible.
But you’re missing opportunities every single day that your positioning does not reflect your authority.
You’ve evolved, but your brand is recycling who you were in 2023.
You love what you do, but delivering the same outcomes on repeat while sitting on culture-shifting ideas is becoming increasingly frustrating. Meanwhile you see people who are less credible but more visible securing the bookings, media and publishers you desire.
You want bigger impact, increased income, more expansive opportunities, a stronger public presence and more fun without becoming trapped in the exhausting cycle of algorithm-chasing content creation.
If you are trying to monetise your personality to build a personal brand that requires posting five times a day and dancing on Reels, this is not for you.
If you’re ready to build the profile, assets, messaging and offers that generate inbound leads. I am talking about speaking, media and podcast requests whilst elevating the value of your current work and positions you as the obvious choice, this is for you.
You don’t need another course to add to your digital graveyard. You need the support of someone who is living and breathing this work. Someone who can act as a second brain to clear the noise and structure your intellectual property into a bookable compelling movement.
You’re ready to shift the conversation
You’re not here to rehash outdated narratives or dilute yourself to be palatable. You have a unique perspective, lived experience, expertise and a body of work that has the capacity to reshape how people think, lead, live and act.
You are competent, confident and credible. What's missing is the structure that helps the right people recognise it.
You don’t need to perform like a content creator or become more visible for the sake of it. What you need is a thought leadership ecosystem that clearly demonstrates what you stand for, the transformation your work makes possible and why you are the obvious choice.
Right now you may be:
Getting booked because people already know your work
Receiving opportunities through your immediate network
Well regarded behind the scenes, but less visible publicly
Attracting interest that doesn’t yet reflect your full body of work
“I didn’t just gain the next level of my work, I gained the next level of my message”
I joined because I knew I needed strategic support to grow my thought leadership. I had the ability and ambition, but not the structure or confidence to make the transition.
The biggest shift was identity. I stopped aspiring to be a thought leader and started operating as one. Alongside that came a clear, step-by-step way to shape my message, define my speaker profile and build something tangible.
This went far beyond mindset work. I gained strategy, clarity and a body of work that’s upgraded my entire business model. The audio format made it genuinely sustainable, I could integrate the work into real life, not just when sitting at my desk.
This experience changed how I see myself, my work and what’s possible next.
— Nicola Rae, Speaker and Executive CoachCreate the structure for influence
Thought Leader Activation is the infrastructure your expertise has been missing. It is a hybrid, high-support movement designed for the distracted but driven expert who is ready to build a remarkable, clear, credible and commercially viable thought leader brand.
This is not about content tips and motivation. This is for grown-ups.
This is for women who are ready to be recognised and sought after beyond their industry. You have the skill and the talent, now it’s time to build the talks, frameworks and assets that make you an easy yes for decision makers.
That’s how you become the obvious choice - booked, quoted and paid at the level you’re ready for.
Your first 30 days
We get to work immediately starting with your authority questionnaire. This is a strategic tool designed to take the expertise out of your head and onto the page so we can see your current position clearly and identify any gaps in your authority. This alone will bring clarity that enables you to start to position yourself at the level of your expertise.
Then, we meet for your 1:1 activation kick-off call, we spend 60 minutes laser-focused on your positioning and your Big Idea. We clear the noise to find the singular, compelling philosophy that defines your work. You walk away from that call ready to create your Identity Statement which will act as your North Star. You will have the language to describe your work with total conviction.
Then you will have immediate access to the curriculum so you can access it in your own time.
By the end of the first 30 days inside Thought Leader Activation you will completely reshape your industry positioning, own your commercially viable message and start behaving like the thought leader you want to be.
Phase 1: In the first 90 days you will
Go through my 3 step Thought Leader Ecosystem model and create the assets and intellectual property that makes your brand commercially viable.
By the end of this phase, you aren't just visible, you are equipped with a Speaker One-Sheet, a Media Kit, three keynotes and Mic-Drop Quotables that make you the obvious, high-status choice for decision-makers.
Phase 2: Remarkable visibility and sustained momentum (Months 4–6)
Infrastructure is only valuable if it is activated. Once your foundation is built, we move into the execution phase, designed to establish your brand publicly and sustain your new positioning
This is where we move from relatable to remarkable.
Establishing your presence: Now that you have the assets, we spend the next 90 days ensuring you actually use them. This isn't about becoming louder, it's about leading the conversation in your industry with the authority you’ve built.
Pitching & positioning guidance: You’ll receive strategic tools and prompts to help you pitch to media and event curators with confidence. No more second-guessing if your message is ready.
Quarterly momentum sprints: These are intensive activation challenges designed to cement your public profile alternating between pitching and visibility so you can raise your profile and create real opportunities.
Ongoing support: You continue to receive weekly strategic calls and implementation sessions. This ensures you have a second brain to pressure-test your ideas as you take them out into the real world.
The private podcast: An exclusive audio recordings that are like mini workshops that support your clarity and integration as your identity as a leader evolves. My clients say this alone is worth the investment!
“I can’t stop raving to others”
I knew I needed an outside perspective when it came to positioning myself for speaking and more corporate jobs.
Tamu not only helped me see how to frame my offers for today's marketplace (she came to the call prepared with ideas), she also bolstered my confidence (which I didn't know I needed).
The entire call was so energizing, and she left me with clear steps to take, and the follow up notes were golden.
Even her questionnaire will help you grow, so take full advantage of the process! I can't stop raving to others to work with her.
— Anne Ditmeyer, Creative catalyst + workshop facilitatorHow it works
Thought Leader Activation is intentionally designed to activate experts who are ready to move beyond the information-gathering or waiting to feel ready. This is an environment built for serious action-takers, people who set a high standard for themselves and want a structure that ensures they not only start but finish.
The structure of the programme is built on three pillars:
High touch support: To sustain your momentum, we have three calls a month dedicated to strategic support and mentoring. I use my experience to help you refine your thinking and keep your message sharp. One call a month is a dedicated co-working session on Zoom, giving you the time you need to execute your strategy in real-time and stop your ideas from drifting.
The On-Demand resources: After we meet for our 1-1 kick-off call, you get immediate access to a carefully structured resource library including the core curriculum, carefully curated resources strategic to help you build your magnetic profile and AI prompts so you get the best from AI not slop. Everything inside is designed to tighten your thinking and language so you end the programme with assets that actually work for you.
Accessible and practical: The core curriculum consists of video and audio workshops so you don’t have to be chained to your desk. There is no filler content, we don’t have time to waste. Each component is designed to get you booked.
The programme has been designed so that you know exactly what to do and when so you end the programme with assets you need to lead and convert.
The Process
Month 1
Distil
We end the friction of having too many ideas. We meet 1-1 to clarify your Big Idea. You will clear the internal noise and identify your most pioneering and commercially viable perspectives. You’ll exit this month with the precise, commanding language to state your worth and lead your industry with total conviction.
Month 2
Design
Stop selling hours and start owning your intellectual property. We turn your expertise into a proprietary, signature framework and communication angles. This is the commercial trellis that commands premium fees, commands respect from decision-makers and makes your brand impossible to duplicate.
Month 3
Months 4 - 6
Deliver
We build the physical, high-credibility assets that make booking you straightforward. You will leave this month equipped with a magnetic flagship keynote layout, premium Speaker One-Sheet, Media Kit and mic-drop quotables that position you as a sought-after industry leader.
Activate & sustain
No more backsliding into your comfort zone we are focused on your zone of genius and industry leading position. Armed with your new infrastructure, you will actively lead industry conversations, pitch media with total confidence and engage in quarterly ‘bootcamps’ designed to get you booked, quoted and paid premium rates
The deliverables:
By the end of our six months together, you won’t just have inspiration and a notebook full of ideas. You will own a complete suite of commercial assets that position you as a premium, bookable authority:
Your flagship keynote: A fully structured signature talk ready to be delivered in corporate, cultural and media contexts.
Defined keynote topics: A menu of specific, compelling talk descriptions that event organisers, curators and editors can immediately understand and book.
Your signature framework: Proprietary intellectual property that clearly demonstrates your unique thinking and the transformation your work makes possible.
A professional speaker One sheet: A high-credibility asset that states your positioning clearly and makes booking you straightforward for decision-makers.
Media kit: The essential assets and language ready to send to press, broadcasters and event coordinators.
Mic-drop quotables: Precise, repeatable messaging to use across your bios, introductions, pitches and press interviews so people start to quote you.
A Lighthouse visibility plan: A streamlined strategy to share your thought leadership impactfully on social media without the need to churn out endless content.
A coherent authority identity: The clarity and language needed to explain your work instantly, allowing you to move from an experienced professional to a recognised category leader.
Decision making clarity: Absolute certainty on your positioning so you know exactly which opportunities to say yes to and how to price your thought leadership without second-guessing yourself.
“I’ve built a keynote I’m obsessed with and I no longer fear pitching”
I was craving space to consider what it is that I really want to say, to think more about the long term, and to set myself up for a new phase of business. This process is the perfect blend of carefully curated frameworks and actionable tasks that you can fit around running a business and everyday life.
The way Tamu has thought through every detail made finding untold clarity not just inevitable, but energising and enjoyable, which is just how it should be! When you take the time to be with this toolkit, expansion is not just possible, it is a given.
I’ve built a keynote I’m obsessed with, I know exactly which direction I want to go in next and no longer fear pitching to press!
— Sara Dalrymple, Speaker, Mentor, Author
The investment
£3000 pay in full or 3 x £1000
The payment plan is not a subscription, it is an agreement to pay the amount in full over a period of 3 months.
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Why this work matters
This programme exists for a reason.
Despite expertise being widely distributed, influence is not.
Women are still significantly underrepresented as paid speakers, quoted experts and visible authorities even in sectors where they make up the majority of the workforce. Women of the global majority face even greater barriers and are often confined to DEI topics while their foundational industry expertise is overlooked.
“Talent is universal, but opportunity is not”
- Kennedy Odede
With structure and positioning, opportunity can be created Thought Leader Activation exists to change who gets heard, paid and who informs the conversations that matter.
The Thought Leader Activation is for you if:
You are brilliant at what you do. You have substance, real-world experience and a proven body of work behind you.
You want to be paid for your perspective. You are ready for your thought leadership to become a profitable revenue stream.
You want inbound recognition. You want your expertise to be sought after by decision-makers without relying on warm introductions or industry gatekeepers.
You want visibility that reflects your leadership. You want your speaking, media presence and professional profile to seamlessly reinforce one another.
This is for you if you are ready to own your authority, influence how decisions are made, and become the obvious choice for high-level speaking and media.
This is not for you if:
You are looking for quick hacks. You want superficial shortcuts or content templates instead of doing the deep, strategic thinking required to build true authority.
You are still building your foundation. You are early in your career and haven't yet established your core professional expertise.
You have issues with being visible. This ecosystem is explicitly designed to elevate people who are already visible online and want to upgrade their positioning. If being publicly visible feels like a barrier you aren't ready to cross, this is not the right fit at this stage.
You are not prepared to show up as an authority. This work requires taking the risk of being seen and being bolder, letting your uniqueness shine and at times going against the status quo. This is not about generating B2C clients.
This programme is specifically for leaders who are ready to go from being relatable to being remarkable.
Why work with me?
I’m Tamu Thomas, a human flourishing specialist, speaker and author of Women Who Work Too Much (Hay House, 2024).
I didn’t start in a boardroom. I spent 16 years as a social worker, navigating the raw, complex dynamics of human life. That is where I learned how to lead conversations that actually matter. Today, I blend that expertise with neuroscience, positive psychology and thought leadership strategy to help women like you build authority that is as sustainable as it is impactful.
I don’t just teach thought leadership, I am in the arena doing it. I live and breathe this work.
When I tell you that your expertise can become a profitable revenue stream, it is because I have proven it in my own business. I’ve delivered keynotes for brands like NatWest, TikTok, Ralph Lauren, and Santander. I have sat on panels for Harper's Bazaar and Burberry, fireside chats with Stylist magazine. My work has been featured in Forbes, Vogue, Stylist, Grazia, The Guardian and BBC Radio to name a few. I’ve stood on the TEDx stage as a recognised authority and I have even been a magazine covergirl.
But this isn’t “I can do it so you can do it too”. The clients I work with get booked.
Clients from this work have gone on to secure TEDx stages, national press, major festivals and speaking opportunities with global brands.
One of my absolute joys is working with experts who are worried that their message is too radical, too political or too different to be commercially viable.
One of the challenges values-driven experts face is their internal fear that their thought leadership is simultaneously too much and yet not enough for them to be taken seriously. They have so many ideas they don’t know where to start so they freeze.
Where other mentors see a niching problem, my brain fires on all cylinders. Having many complex ideas is not a liability, it’s your competitive advantage when you have the infrastructure to structure them.
My work is the bridge. I help you take your pioneering, contrarian perspectives and position them so that decision-makers don’t just "get it", they pay for it.
I created Thought Leader Activation so ethical, values-driven experts like you can step into the spotlight and add a profitable revenue stream without selling out.
The invitation
You don’t need a visibility or confidence programme. You don’t need to build a personal brand so you can monetise your personality. You don’t need to learn how to master the algorithm. All of these things are fickle.
You need a clear, commercially viable thought leadership business built around your expertise, what you stand for and the change you’re ready to lead. If you’re ready to be paid at a premium for your thought leadership, The Thought Leader Activation is for you.
The investment
£3000 pay in full or £1000 x 3 pay plan
FAQ’s
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Realistically, you need to dedicate approximately 5 hours a week in the first phase while you are actively building your thought leadership assets and creating your positioning content.
You need to purposefully make space for this work. I cannot emphasise this enough: you cannot build a remarkable brand in the nooks and crannies of a busy week.
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A lot. This is a high-touch programme. I personally facilitate all of the weekly strategy calls, your 1:1 kick-off strategy call and provide the mentoring in our sessions. You are working with me, not a junior coach.
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The leaders who fully commit to this process get results. The people who struggle are those who do not carve out the actual time to do the work, who attend calls sporadically or who get caught up waiting to feel ‘ready’ or ‘confident' before taking action. If you are preoccupied with what people might think about you stepping out as an authority, you will stall. If you bring the commitment, the infrastructure works.
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If you want to elevate your brand, reduce client work and get more paid speaking work and media coverage, yes. This is specifically for established experts who are ready to transition away from being valued solely for their service delivery and start being sought after and paid for their industry leading perspective.
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This is a focused strategy lab with expert eyes on your actual work. This is a high-touch experience where you are seen, stretched and supported with tailored guidance to refine your positioning.
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No. This is for service-based founders, mid-to-senior professionals, academics, creatives and entrepreneurs alike. You don't need a specific job title, but you do need to already be an established leader who is delivering high-level results in your field.
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No. This is an environment for refinement and activation, not discovery. If you don't yet know what your core expertise is, this is not the right fit for you at this stage.
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You won’t be given busywork for the sake of it, but yes, you are expected to take action. This is a space for implementation, not contemplation. Everything you do is designed to build a real asset, not just fill your calendar
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Where: All sessions are held via Zoom. You will receive calendar invites, onboarding materials and access to a dedicated dashboard.
Duration: Live sessions are 90 minutes to ensure we have the necessary time and space to do the work.
Missed calls: If you miss a session, you will get access to the recording and an AI-generated summary within 2 working days.
Payment options: We offer a pay-in-full option of [PAY IN FULL] and a 3-month payment plan of [PAY MONTHLY]. The payment plan is not a subscription, it is an agreement to pay the amount in full over a period of 3 months.