Clinical experience meets organizational experience.

I’m TJ Rumler, a licensed clinical social worker, trainer, consultant, and combat veteran from West Greenville, South Carolina. I founded TJ Rumler Consulting because I believe organizations can achieve better outcomes when they understand the people within their systems.

My path to this work has taken me through education, healthcare, mental health, the military, and nonprofit leadership. I have supported people experiencing homelessness, individuals living with HIV/AIDS, children receiving residential psychiatric care, veterans from multiple generations, adolescents and families, educators, and community leaders.

Those experiences taught me something that continues to shape my work today: we cannot understand people by looking only at their behavior.

We have to remain curious about what they have experienced, what their nervous systems may be responding to, what relationships surround them, and what conditions within the environment are helping or making things harder. Context does not remove accountability. It helps us respond with greater clarity, compassion, and effectiveness.

I spent more than seven years with Greenville County Schools, including over five years as the first Trauma-Informed Specialist for South Carolina’s largest school district. In that role, I provided training, consultation, and program support across more than 100 schools and district locations.

That work helped me see the limits of awareness alone. People can understand trauma, relationships, emotional regulation, or restorative practices in theory and still struggle to apply that knowledge when they are stressed, overwhelmed, or operating within systems that have not changed.

That realization became central to TJ Rumler Consulting.

I do not want people to leave a training simply knowing more. I want them to understand what the information means for the next student interaction, difficult conversation, team meeting, leadership decision, or organizational practice.

I have worked directly with people who have been harmed, overwhelmed, or misunderstood by systems. I have also worked alongside the professionals and leaders responsible for improving those systems.

That allows me to see both sides of the challenge: what may be happening within a person and what may be happening in the environment around them.

Today, I lead TJ Rumler Consulting full time, helping schools, nonprofits, healthcare teams, and other people-serving organizations turn knowledge about trauma, stress, relationships, and human development into practical change.

My work includes training, organizational consultation, program development, restorative practices, emotional intelligence, resilience, healthy conflict, and implementation support. Every engagement is different, but the goal remains consistent: help people understand one another better, respond more effectively, and build healthier systems together.

I bring research, clinical experience, storytelling, reflection, humor, and practical skill-building into the room. I believe difficult subjects can be approached with honesty without leaving people feeling defeated or ashamed. I also believe people learn best when they have an opportunity to connect new information to their actual work. That is why my sessions are interactive, relational, and designed around application rather than presentation alone. The work is grounded in a few core beliefs:

• People should be understood in context, not reduced to a behavior, diagnosis, or deficit.
• Relationships are central to healing, learning, and meaningful change.
• Accountability and compassion can exist together.
• Resilience can be developed, but people should not be expected to endure harmful systems indefinitely.
• Lasting organizational change requires more than a single training.
• We are stronger when responsibility, knowledge, and hope are shared.

WE > me has been part of TJ Rumler Consulting from the beginning. It reflects my belief that meaningful change rarely happens through one expert, one leader, or one presentation. Change happens through relationships. It happens when people develop shared language, practice new ways of responding, and take collective responsibility for the environments they create. My role is not to arrive with every answer. It is to bring useful knowledge, ask better questions, help people see what they may be missing, and work alongside them to build something that fits their community.

If your organization is navigating burnout, conflict, challenging behavior, disconnection, or the difficult space between knowing better and consistently doing better, TJ Rumler Consulting can help.