Position:
Head of Social Mobility, Inclusion & Belonging
Company:
Co-op
Bio:
Zahoor is Head of Social Mobility, Inclusion and Belonging for the Co-op group with over two decades of experience in equality, diversity and inclusion practice garnered across and range of industries, including the public, private and charitable sectors. As a graduate of psychology, he fosters a behavioural approach, and has been instrumental in pioneering approaches to tackling non-inclusive behaviours and structural inequalities. He has led D&I teams in the MoD, the finance sector and emergency services. He led the return to work of the UK’s first amputee firefighter and was the founding member and Chair of the Asian Fire Service Association, an equalities campaigning and educational group. He is a specialist inclusive coach and mentor.
His interests include post-imperial literature and has begun recent years with the aim of reading 52 books in 52 weeks. He currently lives in Worcester with his wife and three children.