Oliver Kothrade HR Director, Panasonic Appliance Europe, Germany
Oliver Kothrade lives and works in Hamburg which is the 2nd biggest City in Germany. He completed his master’s degree in Human Resource Management and German Labor law. He has been working for Panasonic since 2001, his current role is HR Director for Panasonic Appliance Europe. He like to work in this international environment of a global Japanese Company. He would describe himself as a hands-on generalist, pragmatic approach, and always solution-oriented HR person with also a positive mindset and openness for challenges and changes. Beside his profession he gave lecture to students at the University Lueneburg in Human Resource Management. In addition, he is also a honorary judge at the Labor and Social Court in Hamburg.
He has also a passion in develop younger people into their first training profession and act as an auditor. Since 2012 he is also one of the founding members and deputy head of the German DIN committee HR Management, which is part of the ISO TC 260 working on global HR Standards. He has a strong believe that HR professionals should create accountable benefits for all kind of organization, therefore transparent Human Capital Reporting becomes more and more important.
As HR Director of Panasonic Business Support Europe Oliver got the opportunity to attend the certification course of HR Metrics and now being qualified as Lead Consultant and Auditor for ISO 30414 Guidelines for Internal and External Human Capital Reporting. He highly recommends this course because it gives a good insight into the ISO Global Standard of HRC in terms of scope and its objectives. He quoted that he like the atmosphere and diversity of the learning group, because exchanging of gained experiences in Human Capital Reporting is really a benefit in this course, if you have participants coming from different countries and industries / branches.
Also the Case Study for the certification process was very practical and provides a good learning curve what does it mean to become a Lead Consultant / Auditor for ISO 30414. It combines all the relevant perspectives of the HR reporting areas and metrices, as well as the reporting and system responsibilities and comparability of data and its interpretations based on gap analysis and conclusions and recommendation for Senior Management how to improve its internal and external HR Capital Reporting.
If you are an HR practitioner and you would like to make the intangible human people asset of your company visible and add a HR value proposition and a competitive advantage for your company, don’t miss to deepen you understanding, knowledge and insights of HCR.