Her experience primarily covers organisation effectiveness, development and  transformations.

Her areas of expertise include: business architecture, organisation design, skills strategy, HR transformation, talent management, change management, workforce transition, finance transformation, process design, job evaluation, campaign management as well PMO across various industries.

Tesantha has completed her MSc in Business Psychology (University of South Wales)

Integrated energy and chemical company 

• Organisation design lead for HR. Worked with the HR leadership teams across 3 regional hubs which supports 32 countries to assess the existing HR function and define the to-be conceptual HR operating model for Global integrated chemicals and energy company

Middle East’s and North Africa’s most successful group of companies operating restaurants, manufacturing consumer foods and food-related products

• Organisation design lead for HR. Completed an in-depth as-is analyses of existing HR functions across 13 countries. Developed high-level job descriptions, functional HR KPI’s, Governance Model. Identified integration points across the Business and functions. Developed the to-be organisation structure to support 40000 employees. Developed and managed the HR baseline to achieve a $1.3M saving within the function

Global internet, technology and multimedia holding company

• Organisation design lead for HR. Worked with the CHRO, country leads and HR leads across 11 countries supporting 9000 employees to define the new HR Operating model and associated HR structures, governance models, KPI’s and key role job descriptions for Broad based multinational internet and media group

French multinational food-products corporation 

• Regional operating model lead. Responsible for the regional operating model analysis and  implementation

Large vehicle and asset finance provider

• Head of Organisation Development. Defining, planning and execution of strategic people initiatives which included organisation design, culture, change management and wellness for large credit installment institution in South Africa and South Africa’s largest provider of loans for cars. Developed the new Group operating model in close collaboration with the Executive committee

Major brewery 

• Transformation lead. Provided human capital leadership direction and support to advance the strategic business and people goals of the BPO project which involved a 3 way split of Finance and Credit processes in order to support the strategic initiatives for Largest brewing and bottling company in South Africa