Tanisha Tara
Tanisha dancing on a waterfront walkway, arms open, the city behind her

03 · For organisations

Culture Work

Serious about conscious leadership, culture change and thriving teams. Playful about how I get there.

01 · The premise

The next era of leadership starts here.

I work with founders, HR and L&D leaders who want their culture to actually feel human, and who are willing to do more than print the values on a wall.

Rooted in applied business psychology, the frameworks I use combine experiential and play-based learning to drive real behavioural change.

02 · What I do

Training

Rooms that change people

Leadership and communication training that works from the inside out, with play where play does the job better than slides.

Facilitation

Conversations that move

Offsites, leadership circles, and the conversation a team has been avoiding — held so that everyone stays in the room.

Culture interventions

The deeper rebuild

Values creation, programme design and culture audits. Slower work, for organisations ready to mean it.

03 · Yin Yang Leadership

Two sides of the same table.

Much of this work I do under Yin Yang Leadership, a practice I built with Aishwarya Chidambaram, my closest friend from college.

She took the inside route, building a career within Fortune 50 companies. I took the outside one. Structure and flow. Drive and rest. Yang and yin. Most cultures struggle because they only know how to run one of them.

Tanisha

  • MA, Columbia University
  • Certified play facilitator
  • Process work consultant

Aishwarya Chidambaram

  • MA, London School of Economics
  • Head of talent and leadership, Fortune 50

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04 · Recent rooms

Where the work has happened

Pratilipi

Values creation with one of India's largest storytelling platforms, as it scaled past its founding team.

New York Transit

Facilitation inside one of the world's largest transit systems, including reskilling work with employees whose roles were changing because of AI.

Eminent BMW

Building job architecture and a hiring system rooted in their own values, rather than a generic competency framework.

Organisations I have worked with

PratilipiMTA New YorkEminent BMW Eminent HyundaiBig Inspirations 2Go

"Your expertise in developing clear, structured recruitment standards has streamlined our hiring and ensured we attract the right talent. We now have a robust framework that aligns with our values and long-term goals."

Farzeen Patel · Chief People Officer

"The implementation roadmap YinYang built for us was such a game-changer. It gave us structure but also freedom to adapt. It enabled us to take ownership and continue embedding the work even after YinYang left the system."

Sean · Chief Operations Officer

"YinYang stepped into different parts of our organisation with a genuinely unbiased lens and helped us see things we'd missed. It feels less like consulting and more like having a trusted thought partner who makes our work better."

Ruchita Chandrashekhar · Organisational Development Advisor
Tanisha laughing over tea in a plant-filled café

05 · An invitation

Start the conversation

Tell me where your culture actually is, not where the deck says it is. We will take it from there.

Let's talk

Calls are unhurried, and there is nothing to prepare.

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