Hello, I'm Sahil Tayal. I write about people, learning, work and the strange distance between what we intend and what we actually do. I also build interactive experiences, study scent and follow interesting questions across disciplines.
A public introduction is not a complete portrait. That's part of the point.
THE ARCHIVE SHOWS THE WORK. THE PERSON IS ALWAYS MORE.
01 / THE PATH
Not quite a straight line.
I began with commerce, pursued management education and worked across corporate, consulting and public-sector settings. Different institutions offered different views of how decisions get made and how people behave.
Time spent working in my family's neighbourhood retail business in Mehrauli made those questions immediate: budgets, trust, uncertainty and consumer choices could be observed at human scale.
My independent work now moves between organisational behaviour, human development, writing, perfumery and creative technology. The connection isn't a neat professional category. It's curiosity about human experience.
Important distinction: some projects are essays, some are prototypes and some are proposed conceptual frameworks. None should be mistaken for peer-reviewed validation simply because they have a polished website.
02 / THE SIX LENSES
Change the lens. Keep the human.
Choose a lens to read one aspect of the work. It is a framing exercise, not a psychological test.
QUESTIONS & BEHAVIOUR
The researcher
What sits between intention and action? I examine agency, learning and contextual constraints through independent inquiry. A question can be useful without being a validated theory.
Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS), Mumbai.
EDUCATION · 2016
B.Com (Honours)
Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi.
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
Institutions and everyday commerce
Experience includes EY, Happy+ Consulting, the Ministry of Finance and family retail operations in New Delhi.
CURRENT FOCUS
Independent learning and creative work
Writing, organisational behaviour inquiry, human capital, fragrance and digital experiments. These are independent pursuits, not institutional appointments.
The past affiliations above do not imply endorsement of this website by the organisations named. For a fuller factual account, consult the primary About page.
04 / AN OPERATING PRINCIPLE
“Evidence when we have it. Curiosity when we don't.”
Separate observation from interpretation, a working prototype from a demonstrated result, and the public archive from a complete human life.