Tamara Parris graduated from Ryerson University with her bachelors of Social Work degree, focusing in group dynamics development and crisis management counseling. She has provided career and employment counseling for over 15 years and conducted social, business and employment satisfaction research for 9 years. During this time she designed and developed an assessment tool to identify the quality of service and intervention outcomes of community programs and services.

This tool is currently being utilized by Family Service Association organizations.

She also prepared and facilitated professional development workshops to teach the concept of Development Outcome measurement and Program Assessment, as well as the correct utilization of the model.

Tamara has run two successful businesses in Latin America, one of which provided a business-mentoring program to teach business and office skills to native Hondurans to better their life opportunities. She successfully mentored a local resident to take over the business as part of it's succession planning.
She began researching the physical & psychological impact aggressive / disruptive employees have on

* Corporate culture
* Operation costs
* Human resource assets
* Employee Loyalty & Trust

Tamara's objective when starting this firm was to educate business owners in the importance of properly handling aggressive / disruptive employees, so other employees are not harassed.

Tamara elected to use her social work background to aid those effected by the behavior with Employee Counseling services.

These services assist with:

* Professional development building
* Working with individuals and groups of employees dealing with an aggressor/bully in the workplace.
* Work and home life balance counseling

Tamara has published on-line articles and several white papers on "Bullying in the Workplace" and on measuring the economic and human resource cost ; "Business Costs of Bullying in the Workplace".

parris.research@gmail.com