Imtiyaz Foolat

Professional Experience

  • Director and Lead Coach at Imtiyazfoolat, a consultancy and coaching provider specialising in Inclusion & Diversity leadership development

  • 23 years of corporate experience working in change, operations and business leadership roles

  • Led and delivered change programmes focused on operational efficiencies, strategy development and team effectiveness

  • Headed a multimillion-pound commercial insurance business through engaging and leading large numbers of people serving thousands of customers for over 7 years

  • A business leader primarily who found a calling towards Leadership & Development and now facilitates, coaches and develops other leaders

Expertise

  • Associate Certified Coach – International Coach Federation

  • Advanced Facilitator – Sheppard Moscow

  • Internal Leadership Coach – Aviva

  • Systems Thinking Practitioner - Aviva

  • Six Sigma Black Belt - Centrica

  • BA Human Resource Management – DeMontfort University

Major Achievements

  • Set up and operationalised a professional global coaching faculty within a major global financial services organisation

  • Designed, facilitated and coached on talent development programmes to improve gender diversity at senior levels in the insurance industry

  • Coached and facilitated senior leadership teams on Leadership Accelerator partnership with Heidrick & Struggles

  • Developed a bespoke coaching programme aimed at supporting ethnic minority professionals navigate into senior leadership roles

  • Designed and delivered leadership interventions to create inclusive cultures and build the necessary skills in leaders through my own inclusivity models

  • In partnership with other consultants, delivered interventions that built coaching skills in leaders for better performance conversations driving growth and capability