Rich is a certified coach through the International Coaching Federation and is a certified Franklin Covey Coach. He has coached over 50 leaders since 2003. He is also a founding member of Coaching the Global Village Advisory Board an organization of coaches who employ these techniques in international develop efforts.

Rich has served as the policy strategist and strategic coach for College Summit a nonprofit focused on increasing the college enrollment rate among low income Americans. College Summit is among only a handful of nonprofits to receive the Social Capitalist Award from Fast Company magazine four years in a row, every year since the award has been give in 2004. In 2006 College Summit received the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship.

He also served as strategic coach for AIDS Responsibility Project. ARP was a key organization in mapping out a plan for the US government response to the AIDS epidemic in Africa. On behalf of ARP, Tafel joined a Congressional Staff Delegation to help educate Congress on the need and potential strategies for a US response. In 2005, Tafel joined a USAID sponsored delegation to Latin America to determine how AIDS efforts in Latin America might engage corporations in the battle against stigma and discrimination. From 2003 through 2006, Tafel served as strategist for the creation of the first HIV/AIDS business council in Mexico and today is advising on a similar models around the world. Today, over 34 major corporations are participating in the council.

In 1991 he was appointed Director of Adolescent Health Services in Massachusetts Department of Public Health.

Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy In 2007 Tafel is the Chief Strategic Officer for the Sapphire Alliance LLC a corporation that facilitates corporate social responsibility around the world.

An ordained minister, Tafel has preached over 60 sermons and facilitated 18 church growth strategy sessions since 2003. He is a strategist for the Swedenborgian Church of North America. After graduating with a Masters from Harvard Divinity School Tafel was ordained and served as the Assistant to the Minister at the Harvard University Memorial Church.

From 1993 through 2002, Tafel was in the eye of the culture wars creating two nonprofits to battle for LGBT equality in Washington, DC as founding Executive Director of Log Cabin Republicans and authored a book Party Crasher: A Gay Republican Challenges Politics as Usual (Simon&Schuster 1999. Tafel lead three campaign schools for 40 college undergraduates. In 2000, Rich was chosen by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Americans.

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Tafel to Open Personal Coaching Practice -- Washington Blade, December 23, 2002