Kenneth Pennington
Executive Coach Interim People Leader @Ijaf
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WORK HISTORY
Executive Coach Interim People Leader @Ijaf
Completing my ICF ACC coaching accreditation while taking on interim people partnering work. Coaching focus is leadership development, career transition, and performance. Interim work has been people strategy and organisational design for technology companies.Active speaker and panelist on how to fix the people function. Presented at the London HR Vision Conference. Regular contributor to market discussions on belonging, organisational dysfunction, and why most HR operating models don’t work the way people think they do.
EDUCATION
IMD
Certificate Executive Coaching, Business Consulting
Cornell University
Professional Certification, Change Management
WVU Reed School of Media and Communications
Bachelor's Degree, Journalism; Advertising
WVU John Chambers College of Business and Economics
Master's Degree, Industrial and Labor Relations; Employment Law
SKILLS
ABOUT KENNETH PENNINGTON
Senior People Business Partner with 20 years of progressive experience delivering people strategy across global, matrixed technology organisations in the US and UK. Strong track record partnering with CTOs, engineering leaders, and product teams. Experienced building people business partnership functions, leading HR through M&A integrations, and translating business strategy into people outcomes. Solid employment law grounding spanning US, UK, and European legislationCORE STRENGTHS• Business partnering across diverse client groups—technology, engineering, security, operations• Building and leading HR teams in complex matrix structures across multiple business units and geographies• Senior stakeholder influence and C-suite advisory• Multinational operations with global remit—understanding US and UK governance structures• Change management, M&A integration, restructuring, TUPE• Employee relations at scale—complex consultations, investigations, redundancy programmes
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