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Facilitator Profile

Tanmay is a business leader, organizational consultant and visual storyteller who loves to work at the crossroad of leadership, learning and change. With over two decades of experience in diverse and global environments, he pursues organizational, operational and leadership excellence to deliver business value.

At QAspire Consulting, which he founded in 2021, Tanmay works with global organizations like Microsoft (HQ) and Wipro Technologies amongst others offering leadership development, organizational consulting, change facilitation and visual storytelling services.

During these 25+ years, Tanmay has led large teams in executive roles, built high-performing teams, improved quality of products, developed people, consulted global customers, established process frameworks like ISO and CMMi and created ecosystems of high performance through culture and talent development initiatives. During his career as a business leader, Tanmay has trained, coached and mentored diverse people to excel in their leadership roles. He is a trained coach with hands-on experience in helping people grow.

In his last stint till 2020, he served as Country Managing Director of Basware India (~680 people organization at its peak) where he transformed India organization into a strategic asset through focus on effective site strategy, team building, culture development and talent management initiatives. He has also served on several board positions to enable strong India capability centers for multinational organizations.

He writes and illustrates at QAspire blog since 2006 and has written more than 1000 articles for his blog and other publications. He has authored three international books on Quality and Leadership.

He is a visual thinker, facilitator and illustrator. His sketchnotes have been featured in best-selling books, global conferences and publications like HBR Ascend, Forbes, HuffPost and World Economic Forum.

Tanmay is often invited to speak on leadership, learning and change at events, podcasts and educational institutions. He delivered a TEDx talk on Self Directed Learning in 2019.

He tweets as @tnvora and shares his insights/illustrations on LinkedIn.

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