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