AXSchat with Kathy Bernhardt – Managing Director, Tangram Business Resourcing
Channel: AXSChat
Date: 06/03/2017

Kathy Bernhardt is the Managing Director of Tangram Business Resourcing. She has over 15 years of successfully establishing corporate and community relationships. Kathy’s entrepreneurial passion, drive and vision helped Tangram develop and implement Tangram Business Resourcing, a consultative service that helps businesses establish diversity-inclusive workplaces.

As the leader of this service, Kathy provides consultation in a variety of areas to help strengthen businesses and their employment structures. Her work is focused on disability and inclusion and the development of disability out reach initiatives for companies. Most recently, Kathy has been the project leader for a disability inclusion initiative at a national retail chain, providing over 50 presentations and trainings for retail stores, distribution centers and call centers across five states. Kathy specializes in building partner relationships on both a state and national level and strengthening connections between a variety of businesses and their communities. Through her strategic communications and marketing initiatives, Kathy enhances the goals of the businesses with whom she works and creates community-based cultures that recognize the importance and the value of inclusive workplaces.

She has been an avid volunteer and active member of the communities in which she lives. Recently, Kathy received the Kiwanian of the Year Award from the Kiwanis Club of Indianapolis, of which she is a member and past board member of the Kiwanis Foundation . Additionally, Kathy is co-chair of the IndyBLN, a member of IndySHRM and the diversity committee, Association of People Supporting Employment First (APSE), Diversity Round Table of Central Indiana, and Indiana Industry Liaison Group (ILG).

Kathy received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Texas Tech University.