CEOs often can’t see where their business is quietly bleeding internally: culture friction, disconnected HR function, performance that’s drifting out of sync with both. Tanya gives them that zoomed-out perspective, then builds the operating rhythm that holds Function, Performance and Culture together as one system instead of three disconnected efforts.
She’s a Fractional CHRO based in Franschhoek with 20+ years of experience across South Africa and the US, working across financial services, hospitality, technology, construction, imports/exports, legal, performance media and BPO. Her Hula Hoop Theory captures her operating philosophy: success comes from the rhythm and consistency of the operator, not from layering on more tools. Rather than running a one-size-fits-all programme, she diagnoses each business’s specific maturity, culture and constraints and builds from there. Her work spans operational streamlining, high-performance culture, and leadership coaching, and she’s worked with clients including Cape Importers, WNS, Ignition Group, TMI, Start-up Bootcamp, DeVere and Queensgate Leisure Holdings.
Her track record includes minimising, and in some cases completely nullifying, CCMA cases for clients, achieved not through policy overhauls but by fixing culture one impactful conversation at a time. It’s the kind of result that comes from treating HR as a connected system rather than a grudge purchase to be managed at arm’s length.
Tanya works best with growth-stage founders and CEOs who want a CHRO who’s both strategically and operationally strong. She likes working in the margins, where most people aren’t looking for the advantage, and that’s usually where she finds it.
