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Nkechi IloriNI

Nkechi Ilori

Change, Transformation and Engagement Strategist

€695/day
London, GB
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Nkechi

I work with visionary start-ups and business owners to ensure their change and transformation initiatives deliver real results. By prioritising adoption and engagement, I help organisations consistently achieve 90%+ uptake, enabling them to remain relevant, profitable, and attractive in their markets, while minimizing the stress and disruption typically associated with growth and change.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
London (up to 50km)

Experience

  • NHS Business Service Authority (DHSC Arms Length Body)
    Change & Transformation Engagement Lead
    January 2023 - May 2025 (2 years and 4 months)
    • • Managing readiness conversations (workforce systems optimisation, culture shift, strategic alignments etc.) with C-suite executives and their teams in 30 organisations.
    • • Developed the national change and transformation strategy for the enabling readiness phase of the £13bn SaaS HCM solution implementation, impacting over 1.7 million employees.
    • • Consulting on cultural readiness and strategic short-term wins that can enable self-service ownership with the organisations.
    • • Developed and delivered the Enabling Readiness Communication and Engagement strategy for the readiness data gathering exercise across 307 organisations in England and Wales.
    • • Moderated and scored the bidders tender responses at the ISIT stage of the procurement processes (UCD - user centred design, design and implementation).
    • • Deliver programme update reports across all organisations in my portfolio; gather any local wide projects updates from stakeholders as well as analyse any impacts to the wider implementation.
    • • Be the key contact between the organisations and the NHSBSA.
    Change Readiness Change and Transformation Management Readiness Assessment
  • Lucy Group
    HR Project Manager – Change focused
    January 2022 - June 2022 (5 months)
    Main focus was to close the gap between project delivery and effective change embedding within the Group business.
  • Vodafone Group
    HR Transformation Lead – Business Analyst (Merger & Acquisition) Change and
    May 2020 - April 2021 (11 months)
    • • Led and managed change impact assessments (CIA) activities for all 5 modules within the HR workstream delivery.
    • • Led the M&A customer requirements gathering sessions, and needs analysis activities.
    • • Led and managed the training needs analysis (TNA) for all 5 modules to be implemented in the acquired organisation.
    • • Developed and managed the communication strategy: stakeholder mapping, communication scripting, engagement plan and delivery.
    • • Led on communicating the value within any change initiative for the HR Workstream.
    • • Led on change embedding interventions as and when required.

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Education

  • Merger and Acquisition
    Imperial College Executive Education
    2025
    Merger and Acquisition
  • PROSCI ADKAR Delivering change
    PROSCI ADKAR Delivering change

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