Founder & Principal, Strategic Employment Advisors, P.C.
Tamara Keller, Esq., CFE, SPHR, GPHR
Employment lawyer · Certified Fraud Examiner · San Diego, California
Tamara Keller is an employment lawyer, workplace-investigations leader and compliance advisor with more than two decades of experience helping organizations navigate complex workplace issues and employment risk.
Before founding Strategic Employment Advisors, Tamara built and led a global corporate investigations function of more than 30 attorney-investigators across 50+ countries supporting a workforce of more than 700,000 employees. Earlier in her career, she served as primary employment counsel to a global medical-device company with approximately 11,000 employees and practiced defense-side labor and employment litigation, including discrimination, harassment and wage-and-hour matters.
That experience shaped the philosophy behind SEA: The immediate workplace problem is not always the whole problem.
Tamara helps organizations look beneath the surface, connecting individual concerns with broader workplace practices, identifying patterns and root causes, and translating those insights into practical action.
The idea behind Strategic Employment Advisors: a business with five employees gets the same caliber of judgment a Fortune 500 legal department would bring to the table, at a price that makes sense at that size.
Education, admission and credentials
- Juris Doctor (J.D.), University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
- Admitted, State Bar of California, 2003 (No. 227938)
- Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE)
- Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR)
- Global Professional in Human Resources (GPHR)
What Tamara handles
- InvestigationsIndependent fact-finding for workplace complaints and sensitive matters.
- AssessmentsUnderstand how employment policies and processes operate in practice, and whether past changes held.
- Employment LawPractical employment law advice, with a monthly retainer for on-call support.
- TrainingPractical, in-person sessions for managers, HR teams and workplace investigators.
Writing
- The Investigation Is Over. The Risk May Not Be.
- Your Policy Says One Thing. What Happens at 5:00 PM on a Tuesday?
- What If the Complaint Isn't the Problem?
- Your Managers Don't Need to Become Lawyers. They Need to Know When to Pick Up the Phone.
- Compliance Is Not a Training Event. It's a Management System.
- The AI Policy Isn't the Hard Part. It's What Happens Beneath the Surface.
- The Investigation Is the Test, and Most Companies Fail It Quietly
- Culture Isn’t a Values Poster. It’s Whether People Feel Heard.
Talk to Tamara
A free 30-minute introduction about the general issue and the support you need.
SEA responds within two business days: Monday to Friday, excluding federal holidays.