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Gabriella COLOMBO

Human Resources and Talent Development

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Gabriella COLOMBO
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About Me
Passionate for personal development and Knowledge Management - Successful professional experience in managing HR Projects 5Resource Planning, Education, Talent, Diversity) in multinational companies in international and corporate environment.

Pragmatic, efficient, creative, flexible, performs at all organizational levels with excellent interpersonal and analytical skills.

PhD obtained in 2012 in "Strategy, Program and Project Management" at Skema Business School. Research field is in Knowledge Management and Knowledge Capitalization and more specifically in Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer.
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Experiences
  • Management of human resources operations throughout the employees lifecycle, from recruiting, to training and development, from appraisals to disciplinary actions;
  • Strong support to the entity top management team in terms of resource planning, competencies development, strategic planning and change management
  • Responsible of a team of HR Business Partners, Talent and Development and recruiting officers, in supporting the business in the day to day activities for local and expatriate staff
  • Responsible for local HR policies and processes to be implemented and followed according to local laws and requirements.
  • Responsible for restructuring process, including social relations (Personnel Delegates), communication, repositioning, monitoring of budgets and headcounts, in line with global needs and business requirements
  • Definition and implementation of tools and practices for Talent management processes : Talent Reviews, High Potentials development.
  • Support in implementation of Competency Model tools, Succession Planning , Assessments – Certified professional for Korn-Ferry Leadership Assessments and High Potential Assessments.
  • Key focal point for management and top management for Career planning and succession planning.
  • Strong contribution and key subject matter expert for specific training development and implementations.
  • Definition, promotion and implementation of Human Resources Policy and values by planning and managing human resources programs in line with organizational mission and objectives
  • Management of human resources operations by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, coaching, counseling, and disciplining staff; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing staff job contributions
  • Responsible for management and employee actions by researching, developing, writing, and updating policies, procedures, methods, and guidelines; communicating and enforcing organization values
  • Responsible for special project results (Transition) by identifying and clarifying issues and priorities; communicating and coordinating requirements; expediting fulfillment; evaluating milestone accomplishments; evaluating optional courses of action; changing assumptions and direction.
  • Talent Development - implementation of policies and procedures to engaging, developing, and inspiring employees - Programs for learning and development, motivation, succession management to attract, engage, reward, and develop high performance workforce.
  • Diversity Management - definition of policies and practices to foster and maintain positive workplace environment, appreciation for differences in race, gender, background, sexual orientation and age - promote recognition and respect for the individual differences
  • Education Engineering - needs analysis, definition of traning strategy, definition of methods and means of implementation, coordination and monitoring, definition and deployment of dashboard for training evaluations and results
  • Knowledge Management - analysis of requirements, barriers, enablers, success factors for succesful implementation of practices and tools for creating, discovering, sharing, organizing and managing knowledge at individual, team and organizational level
  • Project Management - certified PMI ® and Prince2 ®, integration of Agile methods, management of programs and projects in a challanging, diverse and international environment.
  • Responsible for day-to-day delivery of the Program:
    • Plan and organize courses
    • Building and tailoring of the program and its content
    • Connections with local and international firms to support students experience
    • Recruitment of students and professors
  • Project Management professor
  • Responsible for the development and deployment of workforce related programs and activities, such as :
    • workforce management planning,
    • education strategy and education delivery planning,
    • diversity programs,
    • talent and expertise programs.
      Responsible for securing sponsorship and funding for internal programs end-to-end implementation
  • Responsible for supporting business strategy by identifying areas requiring root cause analysis and conducting fact-based decision-making in the resource management process
  • Program Manager for Learning Plans and Delivery (around 4000 people, for a total of 25 000 Students days delivered).
  • Responsible for EMEA sales and technical internal education programs related to Industry specific skills, including creation of curricula, website, and internal certification process
  • Manage relationship with external vendors and business schools (Bocconi, Ceram, Insead, FT Knowledge …) to provide appropriate content and delivery
  • Coach and program facilitator for Executive level offerings within Europe
  • Project Manager for the Virtual Innovation Center
  • Responsible for Project Managing technical content publishing on the VIC for the Lotus Brand
  • Manage a virtual team for the content to be developed and posted. Provide collateral education.
  • Development and World Wide implementation of an automated solution for Skills Assessments, its content and Skills Gap analysis with definition of Training Curricula per Job Role and Individual Training Curricula based on the results of Self Assessments
  • Project Management of different phases of the process implementation within different business units in different countries - Management of virtual team and project assignments
  • Responsible for Assessment services and Customer Satisfaction (Customer Satisfaction Surveys, Course Evaluations based on Kirkpatrick model and its analysis, design and implementation of required tools)
Education

PhD - Strategy, Program and Project Management

SKEMA Business School

February 2010 to August 2012
Capitalizing on tacit knowledge through Intergenerational knowledge transfer : an exploratory study of the Project Management profession

MBA (with highest honors)

CERAM Sophia Antipolis -SKEMA Business School

September 2000 to July 2002

Certified Professional Coach

CERFPA (Nice)

September 2004 to July 2005

STEM - Sciences et Techniques du Management

CERAM Business School – Sophia Antipolis

November 2000 to June 2001

MA in Language Studies – Interpreter and Translator – Certified Linguist

Brooks University - Oxford

September 1984 to July 1988
Skills

Personal

  • Entrepreneurial attitude
    Good
  • Self-motivated
    Advanced
  • Setting challenging personal and professional goals
    Expert
  • Overcomes obstacles
    Good
  • Produces tangible high-quality results
    Advanced
  • Team player and natural leader
    Advanced
  • Actively seeking to acquire new knowledge and improve skills
    Expert
  • Effectively shares experiences
    Good

Professional

  • Educational engineering
    Advanced
  • Coaching
    Advanced
  • Talent management
    Advanced
  • Change Management
    Advanced
  • Human Capital management
    Advanced
  • Mentoring
    Advanced
  • Strong knowledge and background in Project management processes, tools and best practices (member of the PMI community)
    Advanced
  • Certified PMP® and Prince2
    Expert

Interpersonal and Communication

  • Ability to build clear, strong and trustful relationships
    Advanced
  • Strong communication skills
    Advanced
  • Customer focus
    Expert
  • Able to listen carefully and understand needs and requirements of different audiences
    Good
  • Open and honest communication at all levels of the organization.
    Good
  • Tactful and diplomatic
    Expert
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