Speaker • Strategist • Coach

Helping People Lead, Build & Grow in the AI Era—Without Losing the Human Advantage.

Teresa “Coach Tee” Hawthorne brings more than 30 years of stage presence, real-world leadership experience, and a practical Human-First approach to conversations about AI, confidence, business growth, leadership, and transformation.

Her presentations are engaging, relatable, thought-provoking, and designed to move audiences beyond inspiration into meaningful action.

Human-First, AI-Powered™
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SpeakerTeresa Hawthorne

Meet Coach Tee

A Speaker Who Knows How to Move a Room

Teresa “Coach Tee” Hawthorne is an AI Implementation & Transformation Strategist, Certified Life & Business Coach, speaker, author, professional vocalist, and Founder & CEO of Turn Up Your Life Motivation, LLC.

Her professional background brings together more than 20 years of executive support and organizational experience with more than 30 years of performing, speaking, and connecting with live audiences.

That combination gives Teresa a distinctive ability to take complex or intimidating conversations and make them practical, human, relatable, and actionable.

Whether she is speaking about artificial intelligence, leadership, entrepreneurship, confidence, or personal transformation, Coach Tee meets audiences where they are—and challenges them to move.

20+Years of executive support & organizational experience
30+Years of performing, speaking & connecting with live audiences

Signature Speaking Topics

Three conversations. One Human-First perspective.

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Human-First, AI-Powered™

Leading in the AI Era Without Losing the Human Advantage

Artificial intelligence is changing how we work—but technology alone does not create transformation.

Delivered as a keynote, workshop, training, or facilitated conversation, this session helps audiences explore how to embrace AI with greater confidence while protecting the judgment, creativity, accountability, communication, and human connection that technology cannot replace.

Ideal forOrganizations, leadership teams, professional associations, and workforce-development audiences.

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Before You Make Money With AI, Learn How to Lead It

AI can accelerate an unclear strategy just as quickly as it can accelerate a good one.

Coach Tee challenges entrepreneurs, coaches, and business owners to stop treating artificial intelligence like the business brain and start learning how to lead the technology with clarity, judgment, strategy, and their own voice.

Audiences leave with a more practical understanding of where AI can create leverage—and where human leadership must remain in control.

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From Experience to Impact

Turn What You Know Into Work That Moves People

Many women underestimate the value of what they already know.

This empowering business and leadership conversation helps audiences recognize the experience, expertise, perspective, and strengths they already possess—and begin thinking differently about how those assets can create greater impact, influence, opportunity, or income.

Ideal forWomen’s conferences, entrepreneurship events, coaching communities, professional-development programs, and leadership gatherings.

What Audiences Walk Away With

More Than Inspiration. A Clearer Next Move.

Audiences can expect:

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Clarity

Complex ideas translated into language people can actually understand and use.

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Confidence

A greater sense of possibility without pretending change is effortless.

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Human Judgment

A stronger understanding of where people must continue to think, lead, discern, and take responsibility.

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Practical Strategy

Ideas audiences can begin applying after the applause stops.

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Connection

An engaging speaker who communicates with people—not at them.

Ideal Audiences

Conversations Built for Real People & Real Organizations

Corporate & nonprofit organizationsLeadership teamsConferences and summitsProfessional associationsWomen’s leadership eventsEntrepreneurship and small-business communitiesCoaching and professional-development communitiesWorkforce-development programsColleges, universities, and empowerment events

Teresa “Coach Tee” Hawthorne, smiling, in a white suit

Selected Speaking, Training & Facilitation Experience

Experience That Goes Beyond the Microphone

Coach Tee’s speaking style has been shaped by years of leading rooms—not simply standing in front of them.

Through workshops, workforce trainings, mentorship programs, business experiences, interviews, and facilitated conversations, Teresa has helped audiences move from information to understanding and from inspiration to action.

Her approach is conversational, high-energy, practical, and deeply human. Whether she is working with professionals navigating AI, women building their next chapter, emerging entrepreneurs, or a community audience, she knows how to create an environment where people feel engaged, challenged, and equipped to move.

Featured Experience

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Workforce Training

AI Confidence Workforce Training

Workforce development and AI education designed to help administrative professionals build confidence using artificial intelligence responsibly, practically, and with strong human judgment.

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Mentorship

Girl, Get Your Life Mentorship

A transformational mentorship experience focused on helping women strengthen confidence, mindset, personal direction, and their ability to move intentionally into the next chapter of their lives.

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Live Experience

Design Your Life Luncheon

An audience-centered personal development experience created to encourage women to examine where they are, identify what they want next, and make intentional decisions about the life they are building.

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Interview

AI Conversation — New Pittsburgh Courier

Featured in a conversation with the New Pittsburgh Courier discussing artificial intelligence, its impact, and the importance of helping communities understand and prepare for the changing AI landscape.

From intimate cohorts to organizational training rooms, Coach Tee knows how to meet an audience where they are—and move the conversation forward.

Speaker One-Sheet

Planning an Event? Take Coach Tee With You.

Download or view Coach Tee’s Speaker One-Sheet for a concise overview of her speaking topics, experience, audience outcomes, and booking information.

Bring Coach Tee to Your Stage

Let’s Create a Conversation Your Audience Will Remember—and Use.

Keynotes. Workshops. Trainings. Moderated conversations. Panels. Facilitated experiences.

Teresa “Coach Tee” Hawthorne in a white suit, ready for the stage