Portrait of Tatiana Marie Shai
Tatiana Marie Shai. Leadership & Culture Strategy, Facilitation & Coaching, Ministry Team Development

Hi, I'm Tatiana.

Long before organizations hired me to shape their culture, coach their leaders, or cultivate psychological safety, I was learning about people from the pew.

The Church was my first classroom.

Later, I studied sociology, which taught me that none of us exists alone. We’re shaped by our relationships, our communities, and the environments around us.

For more than a decade, I’ve worked in leadership development, facilitation, coaching, and organizational culture. I’ve trained more than 10,000 people, and counting, and coached leaders and executives in the U.S. and abroad.

Those rooms taught me a lot. I’ve watched talented people completely misunderstand each other. I’ve seen someone’s greatest strength become the very thing that frustrates everyone around them.

And I noticed that the teams that thrived didn’t have fewer differences; they made more room for them. People could speak up, disagree, admit mistakes, and contribute in completely different ways without losing their place.

Over time, one truth kept rising to the surface:

We can be right about what we notice in someone and still be wrong about what we believe it means.

So I started asking what’s happening beneath what we see. That question led me to psychology, and today I’m pursuing my master’s degree in clinical psychology.

Looking back, every part of my story has been circling one bigger question:

How do we stay curious about the people who challenge us most, and let that curiosity lead us into deeper love?

And all of it brought me back to where I started: the Church. Scripture had been describing what I was seeing all along.

Paul calls us one Body with many members. Colossians 3 tells us to put on compassion, bear with one another, and let peace rule in our hearts. I’ve found that most teams I meet, in ministry and in the workplace, want to live that out; they just need a way to practice it.

That’s where The Disciple Profile™ began.

It’s a biblical team-building experience inspired by the first disciples, designed to help teams live out Colossians 3. It gives teams a shared language for how God wired each person, so they can understand each other, speak honestly, and walk in neighborly love in real time.

My passion is simple: to help build teams where every person’s wiring has a place, and every member is truly seen, known, and loved.

It feels less like something I created, and more like a conversation I’ve been preparing to facilitate for years.

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

  • Associate's DegreeInterdisciplinary Studies
  • Bachelor's DegreeSociology
  • Master's in Clinical PsychologyIn Progress
  • Executive & Leadership CoachingU.S. & International
  • Certified MBTI® PractitionerPersonality Types
  • Certified DiSC® PractitionerBehavioral Styles

A PROVEN PRACTITIONER

10,000+People Trained
10+ YearsDeveloping Leaders
90 NPSNet Promoter Score

★★★★★FROM THE ROOM

“Tatiana was born to equip leaders.”Senior corporate executive
  • “Tatiana was by far the most open and engaging facilitator our team has worked with. The whole experience felt refreshing, and I found myself smiling a lot.”
    Senior corporate executive
  • “Tatiana was honest with us, and that made the room comfortable enough for us to be honest too. Her enthusiasm and passion were contagious.”
    Workshop participant
  • “As a facilitator myself, I loved how naturally Tatiana went with the flow. It felt like a conversation, not a lecture, which is especially impressive for a remote session.”
    Fellow facilitator

The Disciple Profile™

Because curiosity is the language of love.

Tatiana Marie Shai. Look Closer. Love Deeper.