“we must be able to imagine otherwise.”
hello, i’m
tasha golden
I’m an international speaker and consultant, career singer/songwriter, and PhD health 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 study what makes people tick, what gets them stuck, and what sparks real change.
As an artist, I know that creativity isn't just about making things. It’s about seeing possibilities that others miss.
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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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.
I explore how humans break out of the status quo and limiting beliefs to reshape our lives, our industries, and our world — work that earned me recognition as one of Fierce Pharma's 'Fierce 50' for integrating creativity and the arts into healthcare.
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.
Recent work includes helping creative orgs discover wellness benefits they never knew they were creating, and helping large companies rethink (and research!) workplace wellness.
Combining the rigor of science with a creator’s lens, I help leaders move bold ideas into transformative, real-world action.
✔️ 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 something powerful: 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?
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 will we do about all the crucial info that’s been lost because we’ve trusted status quo methods, rather than recognizing creativity as data?
My exploration of these questions led to my PhD in public health; to groundbreaking research regarding the impacts of arts on health; and to innovative, cross-sector collaborations.
zooming out:
This exploration also led to larger questions:
What are we ALL missing when we accept the status quo?
What becomes possible when we get creative about how we see our work, our challenges, our futures?
I’m glad to help clients and audiences harness creativity and science to ask and answer these questions. Working together, we spark innovation, build wellbeing, launch new initiatives, 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.
Through my 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?
