BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
She began her career as a journalist in 1985 working at the Express Newspaper and then the Guardian Newspaper, and spent two years in television until she left the media in 2001. She held the first post created for a Transformation Manager in the public service in Trinidad and Tobago when she joined the Ministry of Legal Affairs, Registrar General’s Department in 2004. During her three year contract she led the award-winning transformation of same-day service of computerised birth certificates, online searches of records in the Companies Registry, computerisation of the Land Registry and reduction of service delivery time for land deeds.
This success is particularly worthy given that the Registrar General’s Department represented one of the oldest public sector cultures in the civil service, with systems and processes that are enshrined in law. During her tenure the Registrar General’s Department won two Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Innovation and Service Delivery.
Kamla became a board member of the Project Management Institute Southern Caribbean Chapter (PMISCC) in 2014 and she currently serves as VP Finance. She is trained in change management and certified by Prosci and the Change Management Learning Centre in the ADKAR methodology. She has presented globally on change management and Governance both to the Association of Change Management Practitioners (ACMP) global conferences, and the PMISCC biennial conferences in 2011, 2013 and 2015. She has lectured at the MBA level in Corporate Governance both in Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago. She became Chief Executive Officer of the Caribbean Corporate Governance Institute in July 2019.