Growing Leaders & High-Performing Teams
We partner with law firms, professional services organizations, and leadership teams to solve persistent challenges and embed lasting change. Our work goes beyond behavior change—it’s about shifting culture and building the systems that make excellence the norm.
Our approach
At Cultivate, we believe that the intersection of effective leadership and employee well-being is the cornerstone of high-performing teams. Drawing on deep experience in the legal industry, we partner with firms to develop leaders at every level through cohort programs, individual coaching, and tailored training for practice group leaders.
Our Services
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Expanding Leadership Capacity at Every Level
Our coaching helps professionals grow into the leaders their teams need. We support emerging and senior leaders in building emotional intelligence, resilience, and strategic clarity—all essential to leading high-performing teams in complex environments.
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Team-Based Programs
We embed with your team to build clarity, trust, and high-functioning dynamics—whether you’re onboarding new members, navigating change, or recovering from burnout. Sessions are grounded in performance psychology, behavioral science, and organizational research.
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Our cohort-based leadership programs are designed to bring together attorneys at similar stages of their careers and within aligned practice groups to foster targeted growth, peer connection, and shared learning.
TARA OWENS ANTONIPILLAI, JD, MAPP, ACC
Tara Antonipillai is a leadership and well-being consultant who helps organizations build high-performing teams and cultures that thrive. She brings a rare blend of experience—as a former Big Law attorney, an applied psychology practitioner, and a certified executive coach.
Through Cultivate, Tara works with leadership teams, practice groups, and firms to create cultures where excellence is sustainable and well-being is strategic. Her programs are deeply evidence-based, drawing from performance psychology, behavioral science, and positive organizational scholarship.
She partners closely with clients to build internal capacity and design systems that outlast any one speaker, coach, or initiative.
She and her husband live in Arlington, VA with their four children and their chocolate lab (Judy).
Education & Experience
University of Pennsylvania, Applied Positive Psychology, MAPP
Leadership & Performance Coaching, Brown University
Georgetown University, A.B., J.D.
Arnold & Porter LLP, tax group
Certifications & Training
ICF Accredited Executive Coach
Mental Health First Aid Certified Instructor, National Council for Well-being