Amity Printing Company

Board Member

UBS Publishing Company

Clermont Group

Head of Training

CapitaLand

Senior Learning Specialist

Singapore Bible College Ltd.

Associate Professor

Adjunct Lecturer

Ministry of Home Affairs Singapore

Senior Research Officer

Hello! Thanks for stopping by here to learn more about me. 

I bring with me over two decades of experience in the education, training, and learning and development space across various sectors including non-profit organizations, academic institutions and the private sector. Over the years, the skills-sets I have acquired and honed include:

•	Curriculum design and development
•	Training delivery and facilitation
•	People development (mentoring, coaching)
•	Communication skills (both written & oral)
•	Research and writing
•	Competency roadmap development
•	Strategic thinking
•	Leadership
•	Administration
•	Project management

I see myself as a well-rounded individual with an analytical mind, a critical eye for details, strong administrative abilities, commitment to excellence, effective communication skills, strong ability to work independently as well as in a team, a friendly disposition and a passion for people development. My DiSC style is CS (Conscientiousness-Steadiness). My top five CliftonStrengths are Intellection, Learner, Input, Deliberative and Connectedness. My personality type is ISTJ-T.

My passion and mission is to enable, equip and empower people to build and bring out the best in them, so that they become better people who would build better companies and a better world.

Knowing that I have only one life to live, I want it to count and matter. A quote that deeply resonates with me and informs how I live and frame my life is this:

“An awareness that our days are limited imbues them with both a steward’s sense of urgency (now rather than later) and a strategist’s sense of clarity (this rather than that).” – Tony Jones

Bernard Low, PhD

HR Practice

1. HR consulting & HR interim: helping companies scale by offering the full range of HR services: leadership & culture, international HR solutions, HRIS, talent assessment & development, performance management, coaching for HR, change management, organisational design, career coaching, etc.
2. Career consulting and advisory: helping individuals with career transition, negotiation with an employer, conflict resolution, and labour law awareness. 
3. Languages and culture studies; linguistic coaching

The biggest project: 
Built the global HR team and provided the full range of HR services as CHRO to a company developing internationally with the HQ in Warsaw (PL) specialized in cross-boarding hiring via a software platform.

International HR Consultant (interim/contractor)

Twilio Inc.

HR support and guidance to software engineering and product development teams in Estonia, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Czechia, Germany, Ireland, Sweden, and the UK. Focus on employee engagement and experience through performance and reward management, DEI programs, people 
and organizational development, HR compliance and policies, Labor and Employment Law, and team building.

HR Director, HR BP R&D EMEA

GXO Logistics, Inc.

Responsible for the successful implementation of people strategy and processes in newly opened major e-commerce logistics platforms in Europe. Strategic Human Resource Planning. 
2nd role: HR Director at the e-commerce site in Poland of 70K m2, FTEs 2000, HR team: 36 people

HR Project Management Director

PayU

Main focus: organizational transformation in 9 EMEA countries: Poland, Russia, Czech Republic, Romania, Germany, Turkey, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya 

- Reorganized & managed one EMEA team of 10 HR professionals 
- Implemented the HR measures into the business reporting & dashboard e.g., involuntary attrition rate, a span of control, age & gender structure per job grades & length of employment 
- Advanced the performance management, jobs classification & reward reviews (TW methodology), created the yearly bonus scheme integrated with the company’s financial results 
- Recruitment for Senior/Executive LT positions

HR Director EMEA (interim / project)

Weber-Stephen Products LLC

EMEA area: 22 countries. 
- Reviewed & aligned the key HR processes i.e. performance management for the entire area 
- Defined the new organization model in cooperation with 3 HR Leaders responsible for their clusters 
- Built & facilitated the onboarding practices & integration workshops 
- Provided intercultural & change consulting while planning the HR activities roll-out in 22 countries 
- Supported the emerging markets (Turkey, UAE, RSA) & the EMEA HQ in Berlin as a dedicated HR BP

Head of HR EMEA (interim / project)

Weir Minerals

HR consultancy support for the sales & service organizations in 16 countries of Europe & North Africa 
- Developed & facilitated the HR processes with a special focus on performance & talent management
- Led the delivery of the cross-cultural awareness program & its impact on team dynamics to ease the communication of dispersed teams & improve customer service quality 
- Training and development (HR): created & implemented a tailor-made development program to improve the managers’ leadership competencies 
- Recruitment support for business-critical key positions

Human Resources Partner Europe & North Africa

KONE

Area: South Africa, Kenya/Uganda, Greece, Cyprus, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia/Montenegro 
- Competence development, talent management & leadership development of the international teams in the frontlines of the New Operations Unit - mostly startup operations requiring the processes & tools implementation, Succession Planning, Compensation & Benefits. 
- Organized & developed the HR & safety resources (team of 8)

Regional HRD Africa & Balkans, Safety Manager - New Operations

Area: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Ukraine 
- Implementation, development & drive of the HR strategy, processes & actions in the region 
- Deployment of safety & compliance policies in the region, Labor Relations
- Performance management & succession planning
- Budgeted in the area of headcount & personnel costs for the whole region 
- Internal communication & crisis management lead

HR Director PL & New Emerging Markets (CEE Region)

Sandoz Poland (Novartis company)

Change Management & HR Business Partner for support functions, marketing & field force

HR Business Partner Commercial Operations

GEFCO

HR leader of polish operations & advisor re. the CEE markets 
Startup of the HR function operating in the transactional org model

Human Resources Director

As an International HR Consultant, I help companies scale by offering the full range of HR services, from leadership and culture to HRIS and performance management. I have +15 years of experience in global HR across various industries, geographies, and business stages, including retail, logistics, tech, and fintech. 

My core competencies include DEI, change and talent management, organizational development, intercultural communication, and leadership development. I am passionate about people, different cultures and languages, and the development of emerging markets, especially Africa. I also have robust project management skills, having successfully implemented people strategies, systems, and processes in newly opened major e-commerce logistics platforms in Europe. My mission is to enable businesses to achieve their goals by empowering their people and fostering a positive and inclusive work environment.

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