Janina Kugel is a German business leader who has worked for some of the biggest brands in the world and is a senior advisor for Boston Consulting Group. In 2018 she was named First Among Equals in Manager Magazin’s 100 most influential women in business. As Chief Human Resources Officer... Read more
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Janina Kugel is a German business leader who has worked for some of the biggest brands in the world and is a senior advisor for Boston Consulting Group. In 2018 she was named First Among Equals in Manager Magazin’s 100 most influential women in business. As Chief Human Resources Officer for Siemens Janina was responsible for over 350,000 employees and helped to bring about huge change within the organisation, transforming its image from staid engineering firm to cool brand at the cutting edge of engineering and electronics.
Janina Kugel began her career in 1997 at Accenture where she focused on process re-engineering, restructuring and organisational design for international firms based in the US and Europe. In 2001 she moved to Siemens, working as a division manager in Communications until 2012, when she was put in charge of HR at Siemens Italia. Janina was the youngest ever member of Siemens’ Executive Board and stayed with the firm until her contract expired in 2020.
Before her appointment as CHRO for Siemens, Janina held the same post at Osram Lighting, then a subsidiary of Siemens, where she had global responsibility for Human Resources, Executive Development and Diversity. Following Osram’s IPO in 2013, Siemens CEO Josef Käser poached Kugel to helm the firm’s HR department, giving her responsibility over Diversity, Learning and Education, Social Innovation, and Environmental Protection, Health Management and Safety (EHS).
Janina Kugel is the author of It’s Now: Live, Lead, Work, which became a Der Spiegel bestseller in its first week. She is a supervisory board member of TUI AG, the Pensions-Sicherungs-Verein and Finnish crane company Konecranes. Janina also sits as a board member for other organisations, including IESE Business School, the Society of Friends of Beyreuth, the Hertie School of Governance, and was a founder member of the Council of the World of Work at the Federal Ministry of Labour.
She holds a Masters Degree from the University of Mainz in Germany and the University of Verona in Italy.
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Janina Kugel speaks on Business & Management, Diversity, HR, Leadership, Organisation. Talks can be shaped around your audience, industry and strategic objectives - share your event brief with London Speaker Bureau and we will work with Janina to align the content with your delegates and goals.
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