New Orleans native, Dr. Tammy Lewis Wilborn (she/her/hers) is a mental health and wellness expert, author, and keynote speaker whose transformative messages inform, inspire, and ignite audiences to live, love, and lead. Dr. Wilborn is a retired board-certified licensed professional counselor-supervisor with 20+ years of professional experience. She is a former visiting assistant professor of counseling at the University of New Orleans and a former adjunct professor of counseling at Xavier University of Louisiana. She is also the founder of the annual Black Women’s Wellness Conference of New Orleans which she established in 2016 to promote mental health and wellbeing in Black women.

Dr. Wilborn is the author of Playing A New Game: A Black Woman’s Guide to Being Well and Thriving in the Workplace. With insights from her extensive professional counseling experience and research, Playing A New Game expands the dialogue on Black women’s experiences of race and gender stereotypes at work as a wellness issue and provides best practices that promote self-care and self-empowerment as necessary tools for professional success.

As an in-demand keynote speaker and thought leader, Dr. Wilborn has spoken before thousands at events for the American Business Women’s Association, Black Enterprise’s Women of Power Summit, ESSENCE Festival, LinkedIn, Loyola University of New Orleans, New Orleans Chamber of Commerce, Tulane University, the U.S. Department of Minority Business Development Agency, Vanderbilt University, and many others.

As a media expert, she has contributed to Authority Magazine, Black Enterprise, and Huff Post and also served as an executive producer on the award-winning 2017 short film Things with Feathers which seeks to break the silence and stigma around child sexual abuse in Black families. Named an Emerging Leader in 2016 by the Southern Association of Counselor Education and Supervision, Dr. Wilborn is a past president of the Louisiana Association for Counselor Education and Supervision and a past board member for Fidelity Bank P.O.W.E.R. and the New Orleans chapter of the National Speakers Association.

Dr. Wilborn holds a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, an M.Div. from Vanderbilt Divinity School, an M.S. in Counseling and a B.A. in Psychology from Loyola University of New Orleans. She is also a 2021 Loyola University of New Orleans’ Women’s Leadership Academy graduate.

Dr. Wilborn is married and the mother of two adult sons and a teenage son who thinks he’s an adult.