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title: "Janani Sathviga - Fractional/Freelance People & Culture Consultant in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Janani Sathviga, Founders’ partner on Talent & Culture | Building teams fluent with AI, one cohort at a time based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, gemini, and lovable."
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# Janani Sathviga on Tal

## Headline

Founders’ partner on Talent & Culture \| Building teams fluent with AI, one cohort at a time

## About

I'm a culture builder at heart\. A decade across people and sales, mostly at startups\. I've hired, built teams, designed culture from scratch, and sold\. That range is what I bring to everything I do\. I believe culture is a founder's values at scale\. When it's built intentionally \- with structure, not just feeling \- it becomes the thing that holds a company together when everything else gets hard\. The companies that get this right don't just retain people\. They hold together through leadership transitions, hard quarters, and acquisitions\. I'm now independent \- consulting, coaching, and building\. I work with startups on the people architecture that compounds \- org design, employer branding, manager capability, culture, and performance systems\. For startups that aren't ready for a full\-time hire yet, I step in as fractional HR\. For product companies selling to businesses but building for people, I offer fractional partnerships \- I've been on both sides of that table\. I'm also a coach\. I work with a small number of clients on clarity, leadership, and the transitions that are hard to navigate alone\. I've completed my training to be a coach, and coaching has made me a better listener, a more intentional enabler, and a stronger partner to the people I work with\. Beyond consulting and coaching, I'm building in spaces I genuinely care about\. Helping women leaving abusive households find their footing and rebuild; making HR teams feel equipped so strategic and creative work can actually happen; and supporting more people in becoming confident pet parents to result in more and more animals being adopted\. My roots at TISS, where I studied development policy and human systems, inform how I approach organisational challenges: with a lens on equity, ethics, and long\-term impact\. If you're working at the intersection of people, organisations, and systems, or building something for the social good, I'd love to connect\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

gemini

lovable

n8n

Fathom

Gamma

## Work experience

Fractional/Freelance People & Culture Consultant at Self\-Employed, Mar 2026 \- Present · 6 mo, Remote, Doing more of what I love \(and great at\) doing \- building hiring & performance systems, capability building, succession planning, employer branding, coaching on culture building & reinforcement practices, executive search & hiring\.

Founder at The Circle \- Peer Learning for Professionals, Jan 2026 \- Present · 8 mos, Remote, Designing and running programs that accelerate learning and using AI & automations at work\.

Founding team at The Talent Deck, Jan 2022 \- Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

Director \- People Success at Almabase, Jan 2023 \- May 2026 · 3 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Built and currently lead the People Success function structured around three OKRs: talent density & performance management, employee experience & engagement, and operational efficiency\. Key outcomes: · Setup hiring & performance systems in place that resulted in 90%\+ new hires being 'Strong' hires, higher % of talent performing at 'Exceptional' levels · eNPS of 72 / GPTW score of 93 \(both at 90\-100% employee participation\) channeled towards employee advocacy, reduced 'regretful attritions' year on year · AI and automation systems that meaningfully reduced People Ops & Recruitment Ops workload · Built and led the org\-wide AI fluency framework My focus was org design, hiring, performance, culture and employer branding \- implementing changes as well as systematizing existing processes to scale with business\.

## Education

Master of Arts \(M\.A\.\), Development Policies, Planning and Practice, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Bachelor of Arts \(B\.A\.\), Social Sciences, Tata Institute of Social Sciences

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