Hi! I'm Tia.

I'm an editor, event consultant, and project manager.

If you’re looking to be introduced to my various ventures, you’ve come to the right place.

Editor • Event Consultant • Project Manager

My website offers a quick run-down of what I do with links to each of my sites as well as information on other projects with which I’m involved.

What I Do

I’m an event technology and planning consultant, technical project manager, and editor. Through my freelance consulting and project management services, I ensure clients are utilizing the right applications and tools to achieve their objectives. I work directly with organizations, businesses, and entrepreneurs to produce events and effectively integrate and deploy software technologies. I help clients with launching newly created events, placing events at venues worldwide and negotiating equitable contracts. I manage clients’ website development projects, utilizing my background as a programmer to help clarify communications between clients and developers. I serve as a liaison, making project completion less confusing, frustrating, time-consuming and costly for clients. I also work with clients to manage and optimize web and knowledge base content by establishing or overhauling flawed taxonomies and metadata, auditing existing data, and editing and optimizing content.

As a freelance editor, I work with enterprise and digital content of all types; legal, business, and technical documents; and two or three carefully hand-picked fiction and nonfiction projects per year.

"Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God."

-Leo Buscaglia

My Companies

Event launch, planning and group travel consulting

Corporate, legal and organization freelance editorial consulting

Editorial services agency with a team of expert editors and writers

Writers’ retreats in exotic destinations worldwide

A membership-based organization dedicated to nurturing and empowering Black writers

A directory of Black freelance editorial professionals

Client Reviews

Any success that I’ve had as a writer/editor can be traced back to my first experience with Tia Ross. When I attended one of her conferences in Atlanta in 2000, it jump-started my writing career, and not just because of the inspiration, motivation, skills development and professional guidance it provided (and there was plenty of all of that)! The services Tia offers are so impeccably planned, well-organized and superbly executed, they set a standard of quality and excellence that I still aspire to–not only in my writing process, but also in my entrepreneurial endeavors and my life in general.

David McGoy

Writer/Editor

Having attended a number of events managed by Tia Ross, I’ve learned that she is a master at pulling together the components of a successful event and program. Her events are enlightening, engaging and fun! I am impressed by the way the events are organized and executed to meet the expectations of those in attendance. This includes the choice of venue, quality of speakers, agenda, and the attention to detail that her staff provides, and I’m looking forward to attending her future events.

Si'Mone Ferguson

Consultant

If I were to boil down my experience at writing functions run by Tia Ross to one word – beside “quality” – that word would have to be “efficient.” I’m a HUGE believer in not having my time wasted, so having been to other conferences previously with events scheduled to start at 9AM that didn’t begin until 9:35, making you late to another event you wanted to attend, I was very appreciative that that wasn’t the case at her events. Couple that with the programs themselves that were well run, of interest and chock full of helpful information, I can say it was a great return on my investment. I left feeling well-equipped to taking my writing to the next level as attendees are given plenty of information and resources. Now what you do with all that is on you, but you certainly walk away with the tools to make it happen!

Askia Farrell

Manager