Talent  ·  Transformation  ·  Leadership

Scaling businesses through transformational talent leadership.

Director-level executive specialised in scaling and transforming international technology and consulting organisations — through integrated workforce strategy, executive hiring and operational excellence.

Nina Redel
15+
Years of Practice
Scaling tech & consulting organisations across Europe.
Director
Operating Level
Leading international recruitment and workforce transformation.
C-Level
Trusted Advisor
On workforce strategy, employer brand and organisational change.
Leadership Philosophy

On building organisations
through people.

Talent is not an HR discipline. It is a business function — one that decides whether a strategy can actually be executed, and whether transformation will hold beyond the slide deck. Everything I do begins from that conviction.

Organisations rarely fail at strategy. They fail at the human architecture beneath it. Hiring, leadership, structure, signal — the parts that determine whether ambition translates into outcomes. My work sits exactly there: at the intersection of business intent and the people systems that carry it.

Transformation begins with people. Structure follows.

I believe in high performance with human leadership. Clarity over politics. Speed without harshness. Data as a lens, not a verdict. And a deep respect for the fact that every hire, every reorganisation, every decision changes someone's professional life.

The organisations I work with are usually growing, restructuring, or both at once. My role is to bring order, judgement and momentum — and to make complex talent decisions feel deliberate rather than reactive.

Career Narrative

A deliberate path toward strategic people leadership.

I.
Foundations  ·  Early Career

HR, Learning & Digital Talent.

Early recognition that digital recruiting mechanics would reshape the function. Work across HR foundations and learning gave me an understanding of how people develop inside organisations — long before "talent strategy" became a category.

II.
Building the Machinery

Strategic Staffing & Employer Branding.

Designing and operating professional recruiting and staffing structures in consulting and technology environments. Linking employer brand, sourcing and delivery into a single system — instead of three disconnected disciplines.

III.
Leading Across Borders

International Scale & Recruitment Leadership.

Leading international recruitment organisations across multiple European markets. Steering high-volume hiring through cycles of growth, while building leadership teams capable of carrying the function independently.

IV.
Director Level  ·  Transformation

Transformation Executive.

Leading complex transformation, reorganisation and international delivery structures. Advising executive stakeholders on workforce strategy and organisational design — and stepping into the operational work where it matters most.

V.
Today  ·  Independent Advisory

Founder, TalentReframe Partners.

A strategic advisory practice helping companies rethink and reshape their talent acquisition function — from operating model and ATS architecture to AI infusion, interviewer enablement and executive KPI visibility. Currently engaged with a fast-growing European mobility company.

Selected Engagements

A few representative mandates.

Global Tech Services  ·  Continental Europe

Scaling a recruiting engine across eight markets.

Grew the recruiting remit from a single country into a unified Continental European organisation spanning Germany, Switzerland, the Nordics, Benelux, France, Iberia, Poland and Romania. Aligned delivery, employer brand and workforce planning under a single operating model — capable of absorbing significant hiring growth without quality loss.

4× capacity across eight European markets
Technology Consulting JV  ·  Germany, Switzerland, Austria

Reshaping who gets hired — and how.

Led a team of nine recruiters delivering roughly 250 hires across technology consulting roles. Designed and executed an employer branding programme paired with disciplined sourcing — deliberately rebalancing the candidate pipeline without compromising on quality or speed.

25% → 36% female hiring ratio
TalentReframe Partners  ·  Advisory Mandate

Reframing talent acquisition for a European mobility scale-up.

Founder of TalentReframe Partners. Currently advising a fast-growing European mobility company on the end-to-end redesign of its talent acquisition function — recruiting strategy, ATS selection, AI infusion, process architecture, target operating model, interviewer enablement and a KPI dashboard for executive visibility.

End-to-end TA strategy, systems & operating model
Perspectives
Nina has continuously improved the recruitment processes for ISG in a challenging environment, including hiring for all levels. She persistently drives things forward in a professional and integral manner. It's fun to work with Nina.
Ankit Jamwal CIO · IT Leader · Digital Transformation
Nina is an excellent leader who made a massive impact on gender-balanced hiring in the ASG region by running many initiatives to attract more talented individuals into the business. Very strategic, yet focused on execution — and persistent enough to achieve results in a tough market.
Margaret Buj Talent Acquisition Lead · Former Colleague at Avanade
A self-driven Recruitment SME who never compromises on speed, quality or results. Nina navigates the complexities of the corporate environment with confidence and maturity — her relentless drive to get things done and her commitment to excellence make her an invaluable asset to any organisation.
Ellen K. Fischer Supervisory Board Member · Former Senior Leader at Wipro
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