Tara Montgomery serves as executive vice president, head of Programming for OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, overseeing non-scripted (“Welcome to Sweetie Pies,” “For Peete’s Sake,” “The Book of John Gray,” “Home Made Simple”) and Oprah branded content (“Super Soul Sunday,” Oprah’s Book Club).  Prior to her work for OWN, Montgomery served as executive producer of OWN’s popular flagship series “Super Soul Sunday,” the Emmy award-winning series that features conversations between Oprah Winfrey and top thinkers, authors, visionaries and spiritual leaders exploring themes and issues including happiness, personal fulfillment, spirituality, and conscious living.

Montgomery also served as executive producer for “Oprah’s Next Chapter”, a weekly, primetime series that helped launch the network and featured some of the most highly-rated conversations including Oprah’s exclusive interviews with Whitney Houston’s daughter Bobbi Kristina, Lance Armstrong, David Letterman and Joel Osteen.

Prior to this position, she was supervising producer of “The Oprah Winfrey Show”, the number one daytime talk show for 25 seasons. During her 16-year tenure, she produced some of the show’s most high profile interviews and highly rated large scale productions.

Prior to joining Harpo, she was an associate producer for “Evening Magazine” at KING TV in Seattle, and a News Intern for ABC News “Nightline” and “Prime Time Live.”

Montgomery resides in Los Angeles with her husband and five children.

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