The Alice Project

T.A.P. Leadership Development Group is a boutique leadership consulting firm with global reach, specializing in executive coaching, leader development, HR consulting, team facilitation, and organizational advisory services. We are a founder-led, certified small-business headquartered in Woodstock, Georgia. We partner with corporate, nonprofit, and independent professional clients to strengthen leadership effectiveness, employee engagement, collaboration, and workplace culture. Our work is high-touch, people-centered, and impact-driven.

Our parent company, The Alice Project, LLC (named in memory of our Founder Karen Hilton’s mother, Clara Alice Price James) was founded in 2014, as Karen was coming to the end of a caregiving journey and navigating her next chapter of life & work. 

Like so many who are navigating a career / life transition, Karen struggled with feeling guilty about not wanting to return to the former experience of exhaustion and overwhelm.  Karen was also struggling with trying to balance the demands of the various roles she played, but I didn’t believe she had any options.  And that’s where Karen began to recognize a pattern in the lives of the leaders she had supported throughout her career.  

Karen founded The Alice Project (doing business as T.A.P. Leadership Development Group) with the vision of providing practical, relevant, and sustainable leadership coaching support to vision-driven workplace and entrepreneurial leaders and the mission-minded.  As the daughter of a military officer, Col. (Ret.) Rev. Leroy James, and a career HR professional, Karen knew first hand that leadership can often be lonely, isolating, and often fuel deep insecurities that cause otherwise very capable leaders to hide when they need help.

We offer a range of solutions designed to meet your needs—whether you're just getting started or scaling something bigger. Everything is tailored to help you move forward with clarity and confidence. Specifically, we focus on:

• Coaching for Executives & High-Potential Talent

• Team Coaching

• HR Consulting

• Workshops

• Organizational Assessments

We partner with corporate, nonprofit, and independent professional clients to strengthen leadership effectiveness, employee engagement, collaboration, and workplace culture

We believe that Vision, Focus, Purpose, & Perspective are the core pillars to Vision-driven leadership​.

• Vision is a future-focused ability to imagine and articulate how a notable, worthy, or aspirational purpose is both fulfilled and mission accomplished

• Focus means that when the unexpected happens, you know when to pivot, focus on what you can control / influence, and create a plan, including milestones, places to rest, and moments to celebrate.

• Purpose is the intended purpose or design of person, influenced by factors such as gifts, talents, abilities, personality, and core values.

• Perspective is the realization that as a leader within your organization, home, or community, if you have a healthy, inspired view of investing in yourself, you will excel in everything you do - parenting, working, serving, loving, building businesses, solving local and global problems, protecting yourself and your family, friendships, and more.

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Mission Statement

To inspire, encourage, and equip a culture of vision-driven leadership through individuals, teams, and organizations.

Vision Statement

To build, nurture, equip, and connect leaders from all walks of life to honor God, country, family, and community through Vision, Focus, Purpose, and Perspective.

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