Vik Kumar Email & Phone Number

Oxford, United Kingdom

iOpener is an Oxford-born international organization that helps its partners achieve their strategic and commercial goals by maximizing the performance, productivity and happiness of business-critical team members.See more at: https://www.iopenerinstitute.com/

United Kingdom

Leeds, United Kingdom

Enabling teams to deliver awesome asset solutions through - facilitation, leadership development - cultural change programmes- engagement and communications across Yorkshire Water and our Partners

• Delivering an organisational development programme of continuous improvement across a 1000 colleague base to achieve a planned £1.5m savings over a 3 year period
• Leading the design and delivery of innovative learning interventions including seven development centre’s for 40 senior managers to improve business performance
• Architect of an innovative energy and carbon-training programme designed to save £2.1m savings by over 750 colleagues. Now aiming to accredit and apply a commercial model to sell to other companies
• Exceptional stakeholder, relationship and prioritisation management to maximize £300k training spend
• Partnering with external bodies to identify future skills and capabilities required to deliver business strategy, operational performance and achieve our regulatory targets
• Integrating a bespoke leadership framework to develop capability and strengthen the pipeline of talent to up to 20% of all colleagues

• Rapidly developing business knowledge to be able to deliver sound partnering to four leadership teams
• Coaching four leadership teams that included strategy development, emotional intelligence, high performing teams
• Designing and delivering bespoke business plans and contributing to the development of a 25 year strategy through research, expert opinion and delivery of focused workshops to Directors
• Leading a business change programme across two functions that incorporated a new operating model and shared services
• Advising and resolving key performance, conduct, grievance cases and managing trade unions
• Designing proactive action plans to retain high potential talent across an employee base of 550 colleagues

• Receiving excellent feedback from the delivery and facilitation of bespoke business skills, management and leadership interventions; Change Management, Emotional Intelligence, Influencing and Coaching and HR processes
• Responsible in the design and delivery of a bespoke 360° feedback system and process to 64 senior managers to measure leadership and emotional intelligence competencies
• Designing a behavioural safety training programme to 550 colleagues that reduced the number of near misses, accidents by over 24%
• Developing effective performance management, coaching and feedback skills through the people management of three direct reports
• Leading in the Business Planning process to identify development needs of a £1.1m training budget
• Building effective consultancy relationships with 24 technical experts in YW and nine PartnerOrganisations to create technical development programme that achieved £1.8m of capital efficiencies

• Developing and delivering staff development activities aligned to the University’s Corporate Plan andHuman Resources Strategy to over 3500 employees
• Responsible for delivering the senior management development programme to 34 senior leaders
• Managing a network of over 30 training providers to deliver over 350 workshops.
• Designing and delivering an innovative fortnight of learning comprising of over 100 events and 5000participants. Managing a budget of £150k

• Providing a learning and development service to over 1600 IT managers and their staff
• Managing teams to deliver national training projects, resulting in over 3000 training days beingdelivered within time, budget and quality constraints
• Formulated creative solutions to development needs, including the saving of over £114k through self-study, coaching and on-line interventions

• Assisted in the outsourcing of a £2.3m technical training budget to maintain service level agreements

Education record

Postgraduate Diploma Hr Management, Human Resources

Postgraduate Diploma in Personnel Management