Be it as an HR Interim, Consultant & Trainer, Mediator or Coach, I am passionate to help companies and individuals finding a suitable and sustainable solution to their problem with my HR experience and unique combination to think, feel and act.

“I had the opportunity of working with Nicola (…in a pan-European project…) and thoroughly enjoyed our collaboration. She is a very impressive HR professional with masterful relationship-building skills. I have observed how the GMs and other business leaders and staff valued her partnership and wise counsel. With her enthusiastic and engaging style, she brings innovation and follow-through to all of her projects. She is the kind of person you want both on your team and leading teams.”

CAROL SALLOWAY, CONSULTANT & EXECUTIVE COACH

Sound Familiar?

Your team is leaderless. Important HR projects are blocked, losing momentum, direction and traction. You’re at a frustrating standstill until you find, hire and onboard a perfect-fit candidate.


HR Interim Management

  • You determine for how long you need my HR Experience for, to fill the gap you face. This can be any timeframe of at least 1 month, remote, hybrid or at a location anywhere in Europe.

Your HR team is overwhelmed by a new strategic initiative. You need someone with the expertise and experience to identify a starting point and manage an often unwelcome change.


Consulting & Training

  • We analyse and clarify together the HR challenge you face and what you need. Based on my proposal, we then determine the how to put this into action and make it happen.

Time, energy and money are consumed by a seemingly intractable conflict.
Is outsourcing the solution the right move?
I offer to support all involved finding the best outcome to solve the issue!

Mediation

  • With my support the involved parties look at the conflict, understand the why and what everyone needs and then search for a solution. The end of the process is an agreement that every party can wholeheartedly say yes to as it is their solution, not anyone else’s.

Demotivation, overwhelm, confusion, feeling stuck and challenging work dynamics keep us from reaching our full potential. Support and having someone to turn to makes all the difference.

Coaching

  • In 1 to 1 sessions, we understand the situation you are in and how the future state should look like or what decision you need to make. I will then support you finding your way to get where you want to be with a time investment of 2 - 4 hours per month or to make a decision that feels right.

Nicola supported the DVV (Duisburger Versorgungs- und Verkehrsgesellschaft) for 6 months as an interim manager.

Initially, she was employed as an HR business partner and then took over the management of the recruiting team.

Her activities included i.a.

  • As a Project Leader:

    • Selection of a new applicant management system: creation of the specifications and selection of the providers

    • Creation of an onboarding and offboarding concept

  • Employer branding – determining the status-quo and development of a catalog of measures

  • Concept finalization for an Employee referral program

  • Participation in our social media project

  • Participation in a strategy project for the HR department

  • Introduction of recruiting KPIs

Due to her many years as a Human Resources specialist and her management experience, we found a competent, very flexible interim solution with Nicola, who was able to adapt quickly to a culture which was new to her, build trusting relationships and provide innovative impulses through the "view from the outside".

We would like to thank you for the smooth, effective handover and the overall very good cooperation.

ANKE BIEDING, HEAD OF HR

If there is no bridge, we will build one.

About Me

In today's world companies struggle to find the right people and it takes time to do so. Plus we all - not only companies - have to deal with the human factor. Humans do fall sick, have different objectives, perceptions and realities from which conflicts arise and they have fear, lack trust and struggle with each other and / or with themselves. But the wheel keeps spinning, projects need to be delivered, teams managed. Life is short, wants to be lived and we want to progress.

"You really do love humans and the icing of the cake is, if they are not necessarily Germans" a good friend of mine once said to me and it felt so true. This passion of mine already became evident when I chose as major subjects: International Management, Human Resources and Organizational and Labor psychology during my business administration study.

I am a passionate and experienced HR Professional and Business Partner. In over 19 years in global US corporations, I gained experience and expertise by managing all aspects of the employee lifecycle (hire until exit), as well as acquisition integrations and leading cross-cultural HR Teams with up to 14 individuals in a virtual and matrixed environment. I am deeply committed and an evangelist - when and wherever possible - to build bridges, overcoming issues, believing in people’s growth and development including my own. Therefore, I became a certified business mediator as well as a neuro-scienctific systemic coach.

Equipped with all this, I am eager to support you in whatever your business or personal challenge may be.