About

About Tanmay Vora

I help leaders and teams build leadership capability, strategic clarity, and impactful communication so they can execute faster and lead with confidence.

Over past 25+ years, I’ve led large teams in executive roles, built high-performing teams, led product teams, developed people, consulted global customers, enabled operational excellence and created ecosystems of high performance.

My work blends lived leadership experience with facilitation, coaching, training and visual thinking to simplify complexity, strengthen alignment, and turn ideas into actions.

Lack of strategic clarity, gaps in leadership capabilities and poor communication are real business challenges leading to poor execution, missed opportunities and people issues.  

What I Offer

  • Leadership Training and Coaching: Immersive learning experiences that build capability and confidence
  • Change Consulting: Helping organizations navigate change with alignment and momentum
  • Visual Strategy Facilitation: Facilitating strategy development sessions through visual metaphors and harvesting strategy into an engaging visual narratives
  • Visual Storytelling: Distilling complex ideas and strategies into accessible, engaging and brain-friendly visual stories using metaphors
  • Visual Communication & Thinking Workshops: Enabling individuals and teams to think, learn, communicate and collaborate visually

Snapshots From My Journey

  • Former Country Managing Director, Basware India (~680 people) building a high-performance strategic site.
  • Equipped with prior experiences in corporate quality, operational excellence and process consulting
  • Served as board level advisor to organizations on leadership, operations, and culture.
  • Founder, QAspire Consulting (2021), serving large global companies like Microsoft, Wipro, Aditya Birla Group amongst others.
  • Author of 3 books on quality and leadership and illustrated 7 bestselling books so far including two WSJ bestsellers
  • Worked with global thought leaders like Amy Edmondson, Tiffani Bova, Frances Frei amongst others to bring their ideas to life visually
  • Blogging since 2006 with 1000+ posts and 1000+ handcrafted sketchnotes on leadership, learning, and change
  • Delivered a TEDx talk on self-directed learning (2019).
  • Trained 4000+ people on visual thinking and sketchnotes, conducted immersive visual thinking workshops at organizations like EY, Accenture, Tata, Philips, Citi, MICA, NASSCOM, TiE, IIT Gandhinagar, MICA and others.
  • Sketchnotes featured on HBR Ascend, Forbes, HuffPost, and World Economic Forum
  • Ranked among Top 20 HR Influencers in India by SHRM India for six consecutive years (2012–2018)

Certifications

  • Psychological Safety Playbook Certified Facilitator
  • Applying Visual Thinking Using Metaphors
  • Team Coaching

Recognitions

Clients Who Trust Us

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Testimonials

"Witnessing the sea change Tanmay brought, transforming individuals and teams to continuously raise the bar, embrace change, and become a cohesive organization, is a prime example of great leadership I'll always cherish."
Technical Architect
Basware
At Innobox Leadership, our sessions with Tanmay have demonstrated his exceptional skills in leadership coaching and training. He has effectively corrected our assumptions, and his captivating sketch notes enhance the learning experience. We look forward to more opportunities to work with him."
Sumanth K.
Product Manager, Innobox
"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 upcoming book. He is an absolute pleasure to work with, and brings so much joy to the process. It has been an honor having him support my work."
Tiffani Bova
Executive Advisor, Bestselling Author and Keynote Speaker
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