Tara Donovan Young

Senior Director of Learning

Tara is a Senior Director of Learning with Innosight. Her focus is on developing customized education initiatives that help companies develop capabilities around innovation and growth. These programs include workshops, train-the-trainer programs, multimedia learning products and individual, team and organizational assessments. She has developed learning programs for clients in industries such as health care, defense, consumer packaged goods, media, pharmaceuticals, chemicals and technology.

Prior to joining Innosight, Tara developed teaching materials for MBA and executive education programs while working with Professor Clayton Christensen at the Harvard Business School. She has also developed accredited online courses for attorneys seeking mandatory continuing legal education credits.

Previously, Tara provided marketing, program and client management services for an incentive debit card service bureau and a commercial real estate firm. She has also worked in the non-profit sector, creating staff development materials for World Education, an adult literacy and health education organization.

Tara co-authored several Harvard Business School case studies and teaching notes with Professor Christensen and has been interviewed by Training Prism, a Chief Learning Officer publication.

Tara holds an M.Ed. in Instructional Design from the University of Massachusetts and a B.A. in Anthropology from Boston University. She is a volunteer tour guide at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Publication Highlights

“The Innovative HR Leader,” Human Resource Executive Online, March 2009.