About Shaheen
Shaheen is a learning designer and consultant with 13+ years of experience.
Driven by a passion for designing inclusive, sustainable, and impactful programs and with a focus on delivering impact and making a difference, Shaheen’s mission is to help organisations design programs that deliver on their purpose and business goals.
Through Ta'leem Consulting, we help organisations think better. Together we design experiences and programs that solve the most important problems organisations face through intentional, human-centered design.
Ta'leem Consulting upskills your team through consulting, capability building, and codesigning solutions — so learning actually works for who's in the room.
As neurodivergence, cultural diversity, and Indigenous ways of knowing and being become more visible, organisations can no longer afford default learning practices that leave learners behind. Designing for a narrow "default" learner leads to burnout, conflict, disengagement, and costs organisations and the economy billions. Despite valuing inclusive, human-centred design, nearly half of L&D professionals report lacking the skills to deliver it (2024 research). Inclusion is widely valued — it's just not yet consistently operationalised.
If you're a leader who designs, delivers, or leads workplace learning programs — whether you're an L&D team building capability at scale, or a purpose-led organisation embedding inclusion into how you learn and lead — this is for you.
Approach
We assess your learning needs, identify the gaps, and offer either a consulting model or upskilling workshops — all grounded in inclusive and trauma-informed ways of working.
We work at three levels:
Skillset
Toolset
Systems
A key part of our work is surfacing the hidden barriers. Most learning is designed for a "default" learner who doesn't exist — we help you identify who gets left behind by that assumption. And once you've seen it, you can't unsee it.
Values & beliefs
We believe inclusion is a design choice, not an afterthought.
We believe the "default learner" doesn't exist — and naming that is the first step to better design.
We believe change has to be operational, not aspirational.
We work in trauma-informed, human-centred ways.
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