Speakers
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 service that helps businesses establish diversity-inclusive workplaces.
As the leader of this valuable 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 outreach initiatives for companies. Most recently, Kathy has been the project leader for a disability inclusion initiative at a national retail chain. 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. She is also a current Board Member of the Kiwanis Foundation. Additionally, Kathy is a member of the U.S. Business Leadership Network (USBLN), Association of People Supporting EmploymentFirst (APSE), and Indiana Industry Liaison Group (ILG).
Kathy received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Texas Tech University.