Baljit Kaur Email & Phone Number

Birmingham, United Kingdom

● Proven track record of designing a range of training programmes including unconscious bias, inclusive recruitment, talent management, cultural competence, banter workshops, managing challenging behaviour, disability and reasonable adjustments, inclusive leadership, equality data collection, equality impact assessments, sexual harassment and others● Designing and helping implement DEI strategies, policy and procedural design, and establishing D&I governance structures that support organisational change● Undertaking audits reviewing employment and customer facing policies Baljit is a regional Board member of Women in Banking and Finance and chairs the national round tables on DEI matters.Baljit’s strength is to translate the theoretical and conceptual concepts into practical terms finding solutions across both employer and customer service areas.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Key achievements:● Successfully established and chaired the National Ombudsman Group which encompassed 25 members● Chief diversity advisor to the Board and 22 managers, supporting the 3-year D&I strategy, policies and plans for integrating diversity and inclusion into the workplace● Development of best practice projects● Supported HR and positive action projects including community engagement and outreach work resulting in the increase in cultural competence● Engagement of diverse internal and external stakeholders in partnership working leading to an increase in equality capability and demonstrably raised the profile of the organisation

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Key Achievements:● Responsible for developing the Authority’s diversity strategy and to hold the second largest police force accountable on its equality objectives including the setting of local employment targets and its community cohesion strategies● Project lead on the Force ‘Trust and Confidence’ group, with a membership of statutory, community and voluntary organisations specifically to address the dissatisfaction of minority ethnic and disabled individuals and groups● Co-delivered training to West Midlands Police Authority on improving its strategic capability to effectively scrutinise and rigorously challenge the police service

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Key Achievements:● Acknowledged management capability and credibility resulting in three fast track promotions at Mercian● Director level experience effectively managing a multi-disciplinary team and budgets in excess of £9 million● Successfully developed and performance managed a multi-disciplinary team of 40 housing staff● Produced a customer focussed Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) Policy and chaired the Birmingham RSL consortium for the ASB agenda, in addition to representing RSLs on the city-wide ASB working group