Imtiyaz Foolat

Executive Coach 

Overview

Imtiyaz has over 20 years of experience working in change, operations and business leadership roles. Throughout this time, he has developed a passion for improving diversity in leadership, with a core ethic that ‘Diversity in leadership should be representative of diversity in people led and customers served’.

Imtiyaz is a highly experienced leader and has led large operational teams, small technical teams, business P&L teams and bespoke project teams across different sectors and locations. He has also consulted to and facilitated senior teams shaping organisational strategy, develop transformation programs and build team effectiveness. Imtiyaz also played a foundational role in setting up and running a professional global coaching faculty within a major global financial services organisation making coaching affordable and accessible to more leaders across the business increasing performance and leadership capability.

As an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation (ICF), Imtiyaz also sits on the board for shaping the Inclusion & Belonging agenda for the coaching profession. Imtiyaz works with leaders and coaches at all levels, designing and delivering interventions aimed at making transformative change for individuals and organisations.

Qualifications

  • Director and Lead Coach

  • BA Human Resource Management

AFFILIATIONS

  • Associate Certified Coach (ACC) – International Coach Federation (ICF)

  • Associate Board Member – International Coach Federation

  • Global Coaching Consultant – Internal coaching faculty

  • Senior Business Manager – Strategy & Transformation

  • Commercial Lines Insurance Lead - Headed a multimillion-pound commercial insurance underwriting and trading business

  • Senior Project Manager – Led operational change programmes for FTSE 100 companies

Accreditations

  • Advanced Facilitator – Sheppard Moscow

  • Systems Thinking Practitioner

  • Six Sigma Black Belt