Tanzi is General Counsel by Cannon’s Principal and Chief Counsel. Tanzi has spent more than two decades working inside businesses and in private practice serving businesses. Tanzi takes the practical experience she gleaned from working inside corporations and adapts it to her strategic approach to the practice of law and human resources and business support services. Tanzi is an experienced labor and employment litigator and business attorney, compliance officer, labor attorney and labor relations manager, human resources practitioner, hospitality executive, and small business owner. Tanzi is certified in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and incorporates this knowledge into the operational and legal guidance she provides businesses. Tanzi is also a Certified Workplace Investigator and Business Manager. She conducts employee complaint investigations, pre-trial investigations, OSHA investigations, administrative agency compliance investigations, business environment scans and more. Tanzi is also a corporate trainer providing a variety of trainings and seminars to a variety of companies.
Tanzi owns a small brewery in Western Massachusetts, Brew Practitioners, where she serves as the General Manager and the “on-again off-again” assistant brewer. Tanzi likes to say she grew up in the restaurant and hospitality industry beginning at age 15. She has worked at a variety of restaurants from diner to brewery to fine dining; her other hospitality experience includes working at a public golf course and a country club. Tanzi is also a serial entrepreneur having started multiple businesses during her career, her first at age 18, wherein she provided cleaning services to residential and commercial clients in Indiana. She has previously owned a general practice law firm in North Carolina, a real estate firm and event venue in Illinois, and an event services company in Virginia (while working as a marketing coordinator for a financial services company). Since moving to Massachusetts more than a decade ago, Tanzi honed her business and labor and employment skill by serving as the Chief Legal Officer for a boutique labor and employment law firm, and by working in-house at a large regional hospital and at the state’s largest university.
Tanzi has served as a director on several non-profit boards, including, the Hampshire Regional YMCA, Franklin County Community Development Corporation, and the Center for Human Development. Tanzi also served as a Commissioner on the City of Northampton’s Human Rights Commission; and was appointed to Governor Baker’s Economic Development Committee Alcohol Task Force, charged with advising on the review of Massachusetts alcohol laws in 2016; and in 2017 Tanzi was chosen as a Massachusetts Top Women of Law.
Tanzi has a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a music minor from Indiana University; and a Juris doctorate in Business Law from Southern Illinois University. Tanzi loves reading, writing, hiking, traveling, gardening and football. When Tanzi is not working at General Counsel by Cannon, you can find her at the brewery, Brew Practitioners, in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts or on “Camino.” Lastly, you should know that Tanzi thinks she is funny, but she might be the only one who thinks so.
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