Renate Slucka

Based on my 14 years of experience in the field, I am supporting organizations in their training and development change process:

• Bridging employees' competence gaps by designing learning programs and campaigns.
• Transferring face-to-face learning to digital or blended.
• Implementing their first-ever learning management system or upgrading it to meet their current needs.

• By personal invitation from the COO, returned to continue the implementation of my corporate training and digital learning plan.
• Negotiated unique, flexible employment, including management of two full-time direct reports.
• Created the strategy to centralize digital L&D activities across the Winterhalter Group and its global subsidiaries, standardizing LMS and digital learning programs in support of executive priorities.
• Implemented first-ever soft-skill digital learning offering, covering topics from teamwork and communication styles to burnout.
• Resulted in a 30% participation rate in the first six months in an organization with no previous voluntary training culture.

• Recruited to expand the Nordic L&D Centre of Excellence.
• Deployed audit training in the Nordic and Baltic region; trained and led over 50 facilitators and reached 2000+ participants.

• Created first-ever corporate learning strategy for the group and its 40 subsidiaries with over 1800 employees worldwide.
• Entrusted with a 5-year plan, analyzed LMS offerings in the market, and selected the most suitable solution for the company's current and future requirements.
• During COVID-19, fielded five new e-learning programs with zero additional budget and 50% paid work time.
• During COVID-19, with no budget for international learning activities, mentored colleagues of five subsidiaries worldwide on efficient local DIY digital learning solutions.

• Fielded course output by 30% and its gross revenue by 50% in one year.
• Created learning experience strategy for a transformational mindset and way-of-working change program in the third biggest bank in the Baltics.
• Implemented an LMS for the second-biggest mobile telecommunication company in Latvia, achieving a 50% increase in learner engagement in the first 6 months.

• Managed e-learning portfolio of 5-10 simultaneous projects, planning and coordinating them from order to delivery.
• Responsible for full-cycle learning and instructional design by analyzing learning needs, setting objectives, creating storyboards, and writing scripts for a diverse array of clients and subjects ranging from customer service to dialysis machine operation.
• In a start-up environment, assumed responsibility for human resources by recruiting, onboarding, and mentoring new employees; drove employee engagement and retention as the company doubled in size.

• Developed and taught courses: "Creativity and Innovation in Public Relations", "Consumer Psychology", and "Fashion Psychology".
• Participated in the commission for bachelor's thesis evaluation.