The Person Behind the Work
Tacia E. Spooner
Transformation Strategist. Systems Architect.
Principal, Table Stake Collective, LLC
Transformation Strategist. Systems Architect.
Principal, Table Stake Collective, LLC
Tacia Spooner is a Transformation Strategist, a practitioner who has spent more than two decades operating at the intersection of government systems, community development, and private enterprise. She is not a theorist. She carries real operational experience from building programs from the ground up, navigating institutional complexity under public scrutiny, and delivering results when the stakes were highest.
"I don't just advise from the sidelines. I build alongside the communities and partners I serve, committed to outcomes that create impactful partnership, not just transactions."
While Tacia Spooner serves as Principal and leads every engagement, Table Stake Collective draws on a network of subject matter experts and strategic partners brought in to meet the specific demands of each project. Clients receive principal-level leadership alongside the right expertise for the work at hand.
What makes Tacia rare is her range. She understands equity not as a talking point, but as an operational challenge that requires specific tools, honest data, and sustained accountability. She has crossed institutional boundaries in government, community, and the private sector and holds credibility in all three.
Accountability is not a sound bite. It is a practice.
Inclusion is a systems design problem, not a talking point.
Success is measured by what endures after the engagement ends.
"During her tenure as Kinship Director at the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services, Tacia Spooner's leadership of the Kinship Navigator Program was cited by the Annie E. Casey Foundation as a national model for how states develop and fund kinship navigator programs."
The program received federal funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and was formally evaluated over four consecutive years by the State of Georgia.
Sources: Annie E. Casey Foundation. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Georgia DHS.
Prospective clients navigating political change, organizational growth, and development challenges are not facing three separate problems. Table Stake Collective works across brand development, community engagement, and community development because that is what real impact actually requires.
Strategic planning, messaging architecture, brand identity, and social media strategy for individuals, organizations, and civic institutions.
What this means for you: Your message reaches the right people in the right language at the right moment. Not after you have already lost the room.
Campaign management, civic organizing, community events, stakeholder mobilization, and public communications.
What this means for you: The people who need to know you do. Trust that takes years to build gets built faster because we know how communities actually work.
Affordable supported housing designed around resident trajectory, not unit occupancy, with onsite coaching and wraparound support.
What this means for you: A model that proves community development can be built around people's actual needs. The gap between a roof and a life can be closed.
Two decades of work across Georgia's full range of communities, from rural counties to metropolitan centers, in well resourced systems and in resource deserts, has produced a specific kind of capability. Below is where commitment and reliability have been delivered.
Built and scaled a statewide program now serving thousands annually, with measurable improvements in core outcomes including a more than 20 percent increase in placement success within the first year of redesign.
Led design of a statewide tracking system, making the state one of only three nationally with that level of real time service and demographic visibility.
Managed multi million dollar public budgets with zero audit findings across multiple program cycles, while securing additional competitive grant funding to expand services.
Authored dozens of policy chapters adopted as statewide governing standard, and contributed research and technical guidance supporting passage of state legislation.
Designed a statewide digital campaign that drove tens of thousands of new users to a public facing platform, including meaningful gains in reaching non English speaking communities.
Built and delivered training adopted by thousands of staff across more than a dozen regions, achieving consistent practice standards across the state.
Built trust and drove collaboration across diverse communities statewide, from grassroots residents to executive leadership, including direct work with C suite and legislative representatives.