Visual Thinker · Leadership Coach · Change Facilitator
I help leaders think clearly, lead purposefully, and create a lasting impact.
25+ years in leadership & organizations
10+ books authored or illustrated
4000+ people trained and coached
There are three ways to work and learn with me.
Work with me
Build clarity and leadership capability you need to move your organization forward.
Learn with me
Decades of insights, distilled to help you move faster and smarter.
Visualize with me
Because one well-drawn idea can change how you think, lead, and learn.
Signature Workshops
Visual Thinking and Sketchnotes
Psychological Safety Playbook
Power Skills
Use simple visuals, metaphors, and structure to communicate complex ideas with clarity and impact. A practical toolkit for better thinking, richer collaboration, and more memorable communication. For teams, coaches, consultants, and leaders.
Based on the Psychological Safety Playbook, this hands-on workshop provides leaders with a practical, roadmap to build a psychologically safe environment necessary for for thriving teams. For leadership teams, managers, and culture practitioners.
Focused, high-impact sessions on the skills that define exceptional leaders: Executive Presence, Leading the Self, Emotional Intelligence, and more tailored to your context. All workshops designed for real-world application – not just awareness.
Organizations I've worked with
Testimonials
“Tanmay’s workshops with our executive team and front line teams strengthened our leadership alignment and quality focus – truly impactful.”
– Parag Swadia, CEO, Otsuka Pharmaceuticals, India
“Insightful, engaging, and transformative leadership coaching journey of 6 months. Tanmay reshaped our thinking and brought learning to life with his sketchnotes.”
– Sumanth S, Innobox Technologies
“Tanmay is proof of the power of social connection. He has mastered the ability to tell a story with his sketchnotes for both my podcast and my books.”
– Tiffani Bova, Executive Advisor, Author and Keynote Speaker
Blogging since 2006 around one question: How can we raise the bar on how we lead, learn, and create value?
Nobody Rises To Low Expectations
If you are dealing with a mediocre team or average performance from people, check what you are expecting from them. People respond to expectations (implicit and explicit) and raising the bar of expectations is a great way to enable growth and potential in people. Raising Expectations Doesn’t Mean Pressurizing People Setting high expectation means providing […]
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Six Rules to Simplify Work
Most re-organization efforts either focus on hard stuff (processes, strategy, structure, KPI’s) or on soft stuff (culture, values, relationships, feelings). I have seen very few reorganization efforts in my career that are focused on the most important aspect of how value is delivered to customers: Simplicity Simplicity stems from decentralization of power. “New Power” as […]
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Leading and Learning: How to Feed a Community
When I started this blog in April 2006, little did I understand about how a community works. I would write posts each week only to be read by my immediate colleagues and friends. Till a point when I learned that, “conversation and sharing is the currency of a social community” I started following many other […]
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Learning: Experience Plus Reflection
“A good starting point for embedding reflection into daily workflow is to approach the practice at two levels; individual reflection, and then reflection with colleagues and team members. Reflective practice itself doesn’t ‘just happen’. It is a learned process. It requires some degree of self-awareness and the ability to critically evaluate experiences, actions and results.” […]
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Leadership and The Art of Effective Listening
There is no leadership, personal or organizational, without listening. In fact, ability to truly listen (and not just hear) is the foundation of having a conversation, building trust, influencing others, resolving conflicts, driving your vision, building relationships, implementing change and learning. Yet, many of us equate listening with absorption of what the other person is […]
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What Makes a Team Great
Last week, during an internal team event, we organized an interesting activity. Team members were asked to form a human chain by holding hands. A round hoop was then passed through one end of the chain and participants had to pass the hoop through themselves to other end without breaking the chain. The team that […]
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Get in Touch
Whether you are exploring a leadership development program, a strategy offsite to create alignment, a corporate workshop, or simply want to understand how we could work together, reach out directly.
