The Reinvention Table 2026 in Dubai

The Reinvention Table in Dubai is an intimate late-morning gathering for women at The Hamptons Café & Restaurant in Jumeirah Islands on Wednesday 4 November 2026. Presented by The Golden Chai Club and hosted by Tanisha Vedhara, it puts two women founders from the wellness world at the head of the table to talk honestly about reinvention, pivots, resilience and starting again.

Only 35 places are available, so the morning feels more like a long conversation over coffee and chai than a conference.

Inside The Reinvention Table in Dubai

The Golden Chai Club has built the morning around a single idea: learning from people who have actually changed direction. Both speakers trained as doctors before building businesses in wellness, and both are there to describe what reinvention, pivots and starting again looked like for them in practice.

The page is written for a clear audience: women in the middle of a pivot or thinking about one, women who work in wellness or would like to, and those who would rather learn from real experience than from theory. Tanisha Vedhara hosts the morning and keeps it moving from the first cup of chai through to the final round of introductions.

Meet the Two Founders

Dr. Neeta Bhushan

Dr. Neeta Bhushan began her career as a cosmetic dentist before becoming a serial entrepreneur, and she built and sold a multimillion-dollar business. She is the founder of Chai Tonics, a women-focused Ayurvedic wellness brand, and the four-time bestselling author of That Sucked, Now What, a book endorsed by Jay Shetty. She also hosts the podcast The Brave Table, which has run to hundreds of episodes on Ayurveda, business and personal resilience.

Her own reinvention is recent and local: in one solo podcast episode she talks about her family’s move to Dubai and what came after the first burst of bravery that such a move requires. For anyone weighing a career change or a move abroad, that combination of professional and personal pivots is the core of her story.

Dr. Taniyaa Bakshhi

Dr. Taniyaa Bakshhi is a gold medallist homeopathy doctor, a two-time TEDx speaker and a licensed wellness content creator in the UAE. She is Managing Director of Bakson Group and the founder of Sunny Herbals Middle East. Her perspective is different: running and growing an established business while building a personal voice in the UAE wellness space, where content and credibility go hand in hand.

Bakson Group’s main company, Bakson Drugs and Pharmaceuticals, is an Indian homeopathy business, and Sunny Herbals is its personal care brand, founded in 1989 and built on the group’s homeopathic research into skin and hair. Taking a family company’s brand into the Middle East is its own kind of reinvention, quite different from Dr. Bhushan’s leap from dentistry, which is what makes the pairing of the two speakers work.

How the Morning Runs

The agenda follows a set order across the two hours:

1. Arrival and settling in, with coffee and chai.
2. Dr. Neeta Bhushan’s story.
3. Dr. Taniyaa Bakshhi’s story.
4. Questions from the audience, including on creating something of your own.
5. A breathing session to reset after the conversation.
6. Networking and connection, with time for content creation or another coffee.
7. Goodie bags for every guest.

The breathing session is a deliberate change of pace. After an hour of stories and questions about risk and change, it gives the room a few quiet minutes before the networking begins. With 35 guests, the question-and-answer segment is small enough that most people who want to ask something will get the chance.

The Hamptons Café at Jumeirah Islands Clubhouse

The Reinvention Table takes place at The Hamptons Café & Restaurant, inside the Jumeirah Islands Clubhouse in Al Thanyah Fifth. A café table suits the format better than rows of chairs facing a stage: guests sit together, the speakers are close, and the conversation carries on naturally into the networking that closes the morning.

The event finishes at 1:30pm, which leaves the afternoon free, whether that means staying on for lunch at the café or heading back to work.

Who Should Book a Seat

The morning suits founders and aspiring founders, career changers, women working in wellness or health, and content creators building a personal brand in the UAE. It is particularly relevant if you are starting again after a move to Dubai, a step Dr. Neeta Bhushan has taken herself. Tickets are sold through the official Luma page linked from this listing, which also sets out the refund policy.

If you are looking for a larger gathering the same week, the 100 Successful Women in Business Global Convention also runs in Dubai in early November. For more professional meet-ups, see our business and networking page. Our guide to things to do in Dubai covers the rest of the city, and things to do in November lists everything else on this month.