ChangePartner advises and solves assignments in the following core areas:

• Change Management
• Talent Development
• Strategic HR counselling
• Management Coaching

ChangePartner is owned and run by Christine Waldmann, who has many years of experience and accumulated learning from change projects, turn-arounds, staff and managerial development and the establishment of target-oriented HR functions. This experience has been accumulated during periods of employment at parent companies and subsidiaries in the IT industry, Oil, Machine manufacturing, Retail and fast Moving Consumer Goods. Lately as Nordic HR Director for Gillette Group Nordic (Gillette, Braun, Duracell & Oral-B).

Change Management

Strategy established and decisions made. How to execute?

ChangePartner provides consultancy and/or project management in all the necessary facets of implementation in your organisation.

For example, we provide consultancy in connection with the organisation of growth, reorganisation, restructuring, redundancies, buyouts/M&As, turn-arounds, company start-ups or closures. Our consultancy services are based on ChangePartner’s structured methods, which ensure the efficient and successful implementation of changes. This includes the continued motivation and business-related contribution of your staff

Talent development

How has your organisation secured the talent it needs for the future?

Development and counselling regarding talent development and processes to secure your company the talent and management skills it needs for the future. ChangePartner possesses considerable expertise related to all forms of development, from minor, low-cost development concepts for selected employees/managers to major processes which typically involve charting prospective talent and selection procedures, practical implementation, individual counselling and implementation of the processes, including Succession Management and Planning in the organisation.

Strategic/business-supportive HR

How does your HR function provide the best possible business contribution?

ChangePartner supports the development of HR strategy and supports HR functions by means of analysis and process-related consolidation of the services that secure the success of your business. Consultancy embraces process, function and job descriptions, HR info-system implementation and establishment of measuring points, possible outsourcing of certain tasks i.e. Payroll, as well as transition planning and the development of HR business partners.

Coaching - Motivation and development.

Coaching elicits the unexploited potential and motivation of the individual manager, employee or team. As a consequence, business results are improved, achieved more rapidly and efficiently.

Some of the best, most significant leaders in the business world are making increasing use of personal coaches, who augment their most powerful, positive managerial skills and develop those skills which are challenged.

Through the medium of interplay and the techniques employed by the coach, the person being coached acquires special motivation to attain goals that have been set and to break down any barriers that may intervene. Coaching is hands-on and is aimed at immediate action to the benefit of business- and management-related goals.

At ChangePartner, coaching will typical take the form of a planned sequence of events consisting of an interview and five coaching sessions, including a follow-up plan. The framework of the coaching is agreed, and tests can be included – depending on the subject matter and individual wishes.

Background

Christine Waldmann has a MSc from Copenhagen Business School, supplemented by post-graduate studies in psychology at the University of Copenhagen.

She has also passed an executive course at the INSEAD MBA School in Paris.

Employment record:

2005 - ChangePartner. Company Founder & Director.

2000 - 2005 Gillette Group Nordic. HR Director, Nordic Markets.

1998 – 2000 HARDI International A/S. Vice President, HR.

1992 – 1998 Q8 – Kuwait Petroleum (Danmark) A/S. HR Adviser.

1990 – 1992 CRI – Computer Resources International A/S. HR Adviser.

1989 – 1990 Hewlett-Packard (Danmark) A/S. Personnel Dept. Trainee/Intern.

Contact details:

Christine Waldmann,

ChangePartner

Kongevejen 155,

DK-2830 Virum, Denmark

Phone: (+45) 70 23 04 39 / mobile (+45) 20 12 04 39.