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Nina (Tianhui) Grosse

**** ***** ***. ** ******* WA 98501 1-971-***-**** E-Mail:ac3fzz@r.postjobfree.com U.S. citizen, willing to relocate CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• 18 years learning and academy design experience within large complex global companies in multiple industries

• Unique international profile from working in Asia, U.S.A and Europe, speak multiple languages

• Proven success in start-ups and ambiguous transformation challenges under tight constraints

• Both strategic and hands-on, achievement-oriented, and proven award-winning successes SKILLS HIGHLIGHTS

• Leadership: strategy & roadmap development, building global teams, KPIs & metrics, change management

• Design: instructional design, needs analysis, product design, learning experience design, web usability testing

• Operations: program/project management, curriculum mapping, content curating, partner/vendor sourcing

• Special focus on blended learning solutions, custom-built technology-enabled learning platforms at scale

• Excellence in Influence without authority, strategic/critical/analytical thinking, stakeholder engagement & presentation

• Exceed expectations by being user-centric and using innovative designs and products to achieve better results

• Technologies: Learning Management System, mobile delivery, e-learning authoring tools, reporting evaluation systems PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Vice President, Head of Group Learning & Development, OC Oerlikon, Zürich, Switzerland (11/2012 - 06/2017) Main responsibilities: defining and driving the talent development strategy, strengthen the talent/leadership pipeline, management consulting, guiding group-wide engagement & initiatives on talent & culture sponsored by CEO and the Board. Interim Head of Group Talent Management (last 6 months)

• Established global structure of Talent Management COE and set up regional teams

• Redesigned and implemented global HR strategic and operational KPIs Sample Projects

• Built the Talent & Learning function (budget >2 M) with a global scope from scratch in a complex matrix organization

• Established Group Leadership Academy programs for senior & midlevel leaders under extreme cost pressure

• Led market comparison of the latest Learning Management Systems and education platforms

• Co-led Sales Excellence for Oerlikon Drive Systems segment to achieve the goal of doubling sales revenue

• Co-led Supply Chain Academy using blended solutions which resulted in procurement savings of 5% year on year

• Designed blended Innovation program in collaboration with Stanford University

• Implemented web/mobile/blended delivery tools/services to increase the access, speed and impact of learning Senior Consultant, Talent Development & Learning, Vestas Wind Systems, Zürich, Switzerland (08/2011 - 10/2012) Main responsibilities: driving and directing leadership development for all leaders (approx. 2200 globally) Sample Projects

• Designed and managed the Global Leadership development strategy for the top 10% of leaders

• Established peer mentoring network and best practice sharing community of practice Talent Mobility Senior Program Manager, UnitedHealth Group Minnesota (03/2011 - 08/2011) 2

Designed a talent mobility strategy to mobilize and retain executive level and high-potential talent across the enterprise Senior Program Manager, Enterprise Learning and Development, UnitedHealth Group (06/2008 - 03/2011) Main responsibilities: directing and developing enterprise-wide programs and tools; consultation to internal clients for learning program design, delivery and implementation; overseeing vendor relationships and negotiating enterprise contracts Sample Projects

• Designed and developed the New Manager Orientation website and online Skill Checks, which received the UnitedHealth Group’s Training Innovation Best Blended Delivery Award in 2009.

• Managed virtual “Learning from Leaders” - The Health Care Series in radio talk show style to thousands of employees. It received the UnitedHealth Group’s Training Innovation Best Online Learning Award in 2009.

• Designed and managed the Learning and Development intranet platform, which provides 80,000 employees access to all types of learning resources. This easy-to-use website has more than 10,000,000 visits per year.

• Led custom designs to build new functions with software developers during LMS migration for 80,000 employees

• Renegotiated a million dollar contract that resulted in a 25% savings for the company Senior Commercial Instructional Designer & Project Manager, Cargill, Minnesota (06/2004 - 06/2008) Main responsibilities included aligning learning with business strategy and requirements; consulting with internal clients on performance and training initiatives; leading project teams to design and develop curriculum & programs in professional development, leadership development and commercial subjects. Sample Projects

• Food Ingredients North America Academy for Sales, Marketing and Technology: designed and developed curriculum paths for target audience segments based on competency models; identified the most optimal delivery strategy for global roll-out, designed follow-up evaluations, participant application and coaching tools

• Cargill Marketing Academy: Designed and established academy operational processes, evaluation measures, standards and infrastructure for deploying the Academy programs worldwide.

• Localized the training materials and delivery strategy for the High-Performance Leadership program in China. Training and Development Specialist, HealthPartners, Minnesota (03/2002 - 06/2004) Usability Engineering Contractor, Fredrickson Communications, Minnesota (2001 – 2002) Training Officer and HR Generalist, Nestlé China Ltd. Tianjin,China (1998 - 1999) EDUCATION

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Certificate of Organizational Development, National Training Lab Institute M.S. in Instructional Design & Organizational Learning (Thesis: User Interface Design and Web Usability Testing), St. Cloud State University, Minnesota B. A. in Information Science, Minor in Marketing and Economics, Nankai University, China CERTIFICATIONS AND AWARDS

• Brandon Hall Silver Award – Best Advance in Creating a Learning Strategy 2017

• Procurement Leaders Award People Development Top 3 – Oerlikon Supply Chain Academy 2015

• Korn Ferry: Succession Architect, CEB SHL: Multi-rater Feedback

• International Society of Performance Improvement: “Serious Performance Consulting” LANGUAGES: English; Mandarin Chinese - native speaker; German: basic

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