NT – Cohort 11
Your Facilitators
“Sometimes, we don’t know that we are ready until someone tells us we are.”
Srividya Srinivasan
The Diversity Practice
Welcomes this opportunity to support pioneering, transformative leadership development for Black, Asian, and Ethnically Diverse Leaders working at Northern Trust.
We are an international award-winning diversity-led management consultancy that specialises in delivering inclusion through leadership, organisational development, and executive coaching.
We help our clients work positively with the dynamics of difference – the energy and value that comes from the interaction of those parts of self that make us unique and different – to create thriving, wholesome and inclusive leaders and cultures.
We challenge and support our clients to think differently, reimagine their organisations without diversity-related boundaries, and lay the foundations from which leaders and their teams can grow and excel regardless of their difference.
Our clients include: Bloomberg, Credit Suisse, Ernst & Young, Kings College University, Linkedin, Aviva, NHS Leadership Academy, Refinitiv, Yara International.
For further information go to www.diversitypractice.com
Facilitation Team
Paul Anthony
Paul is a Senior Consultant with the Diversity Practice. He has a long and successful track record in the design and implementation of individual, team, and organisation-wide programmes that deliver high-performing inclusive leaders, cultures, and systems. His varied career including roles in economic research, business development, and sales with leading financial institutions, as well as organizational development, executive coaching, and leadership development across the public and private sector.
His overriding passion is to serve, empower and transform his clients, against all odds, to grow and fulfil their potential, and maximise their authentic leadership, personal effectiveness, and business impact. He encourages leaders to shape their difference into valued-added distinctive assets and supports teams and organisations to develop cultures of inclusion.
Paul’s qualifications include a MA in International Business and a PhD in Economics from Reading University. He is also a qualified Executive Coach through the Co-Active Coach Training Institute, and a certified NTL (National Training Laboratories Institute) Organisational Development Practitioner.
Paul Anthony
Senior Consultant and Leadership Coach
The Diversity Practice
Jackee
Jackee has over 20 years’ experience as a leadership coach and facilitator, working with directors, senior leaders, board-level executives, and emerging leaders who are committed to investing in ongoing personal and professional development. She helps them improve overall performance and generate results and outcomes that maximise impact in a fast-changing environment.
Jackee’s portfolio career in organizational development includes a combination of a therapeutic understanding of human behaviour, a keen interest in reflective practice as a resourceful leadership developmental tool, and supporting individuals to become stronger, resilient leaders.
She has extensive experience in leadership and career advancement, along with coaching and facilitation around difference, diversity and inclusion, and challenging conversations. Her skills extend to and include design and delivery of accredited, high-quality coach training and leadership programmes, facilitating team coaching and action learning sets, women’s and ethnically diverse leadership and career advancement, and inclusive leadership development for senior leaders.
Key recent clients/projects include NHS Leadership Academy, Royal College of Nursing, International Coach Federation, University of West England, Babcock International, Northern Trust, and Bloomberg.
Jackee has a Post Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching from Lancaster University, a Diploma in Coaching Supervision, Diploma in Performance Coaching, and a BA (Hons) in Government and Politics.
Jackee Holder
Senior Consultant and Leadership Coach
The Diversity Practice
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’.
He is a highly experienced executive leader, with a track record of shaping organisational strategy, developing transformational programmes and building team effectiveness for Aviva, British Gas, and Centrica.
As an Associate Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation, Imtiyaz played a foundational role in setting up and running a professional global coaching faculty within a major global financial organisation making coaching affordable and accessible to more leaders across the business increasing performance and leadership capability.
On diversity, Imtiyaz has recognised and experienced first-hand the lack of diversity in organisations, particularly on racial/ethnic and gender representation in senior leadership roles. This has stoked a passion for facilitating learning, coaching, and sharing of experiences that support the development of racially/ethnically diverse professionals and their leaders to create more inclusive cultures and enable changes to systems in this space.
As a leadership coach and facilitator, he has designed and facilitated talent development programmes aimed at improving gender and race diversity at senior levels, as well as diversity, equality, and inclusion programmes, processing trauma and micro aggressions, and inclusive leadership coaching and workshops for a range of organisations.
Imtiyaz has a Bachelor of Arts in Human Resources Management and Services from De Montfort University. He is an Associate Board Member of the International Coach Federation (UK) for Inclusion & Belonging.
Imtiyaz Foolat
Senior Consultant and Leadership Coach
The Diversity Practice
Dr Huda Thakur
Dr Huda is an executive coach and speaker known for her expertise in applying the neuropsychology of peak brain performance and human behaviours to drive mindset shifts and catalyse sustainable change in individuals and organisations.
Huda’s extensive work as a medical doctor both in the UK and in conflict zones provides her with a deep understanding of the human capacity to thrive. Using a person-centred approach, Huda has skilfully translated her background, academia, and insight into developing a successful global coaching practice for leaders of impact across both public and voluntary sectors in Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia.
With clients ranging from start-ups, politicians, and C-Suite Executives, she is reputed for her ability in navigating and reforming subconscious behavioural patterns to develop high-performing individuals that lead with emotional intelligence, authenticity, and purpose. Huda also has a strong background in designing and delivering successful diversity & inclusion and leadership programmes across multiple industries.
Huda obtained her MBBS medical degree and BSc.(Hons) in Developmental Science from Imperial College London, is a qualified Executive Coach through the Co-Active Training Institute (CTI), is a qualified Team Performance Coach, holds Certifications in Psychodynamic Practice and Positive Psychology & Coaching Psychology, and has studied Mindfulness-based CBT through Oxford University.
Dr Huda Thakur
Executive Coach
The Diversity Practice