Gavin Walford-Wright MA, FCIPD
Chief Human Resources Officer, Taaleem Group
Gavin Walford-Wright MA, FCIPD, FCMI, FIRP is the Chief HR Officer at the Taaleem Group of Schools.
Gavin is an HR strategist with a proven track record of working in a wide range of markets and industries, including Education, Healthcare, Telecommunications, Financial Services, Real Estate and Retail in the UK, Middle East, India, Africa and Turkey. Gavin has successfully operated in Government, Semi-Government, Public and Private Organisations, often taking these through times of considerable change whilst championing positive and cross-functional collaboration to deliver against wider strategic goals.
Having completed his Master’s Degree in Human Resource Management, he is currently a Doctoral candidate at Middlesex University, London. Gavin is also an author and regular keynote speaker at the region’s leading conferences and forums. He is also a visiting lecturer at Cass Business School and holds Chartered Fellowship status with the CIPD, CMI and IRP.
Prior to joining Taaleem, Gavin built ‘Human Capital Leadership Teams’ and acted as a strategic advisor to Boards, Chairmen, and Chief Executives globally. Under his leadership he made substantial reductions in recruitment costs through the use of talent technology and analytics programmes; transforming talent management and consequently tripling anticipated cost savings. Gavin has significantly increased Emiratisation rates, implemented ‘Total Rewards’ frameworks and ‘Workforce Planning’ initiatives that have resulted in savings of over AED 100m. He has been responsible for the effective introduction and implementation of Balanced Scorecards, Learning and Development programmes, Human Capital Policies, Job Evaluation, Talent Management and Realignment Strategies.
Since joining Taaleem in February 2019, Gavin has set out to put in place a ‘People Development Strategy’, aligned to achieve the Group’s strategic goals.
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