I want to create meaning and value using technology, information and data, I want to be able to influence business decision making by providing the business with insights otherwise hidden behind unstructured, unclean and unnecessary complicated data. The data and the systems is the foundation but without the business context and visualized in a way that the business can consume it, it will never support strategies or provide the value it can. It will just be unrealized opportunity and value. Working together with the business is key to really leverage the hidden gems that sits within most companies system as to data and information.

I started working with IT-systems early in my carrier and worked within the IT area for 6 years after graduation from college. When I got an opportunity to work with IT within the HR area I found my first “sweet spot” and realised how much I enjoyed the border between business and IT. A few years later HR KPIs and analytics where introduced in my role and I found my second “sweet spot” in analytics where I could really benefit from my personal traits and thus really enjoyed working with numbers AND people. In my next role I had the opportunity to combine those two in a global setting and was also given the opportunity to take a larger responsibility for the technology and its value adding to the local HR community. And now I've taken another step towards the strategic agenda, building my storytelling capabilities and working closely not only with the senior HR stakeholders but also the major business decision makers, influencing how decisions is made by advocating for evidence and facts to take a large part of the decision process. I have empathy as a leading star for the work that I do.

An HR business partner at heart turned People Analytics leader (for now). Passionate about the organizations' greatest assets - people and data (in that order) and how they can build stronger business. Driving evidence and outcome based practices supported by digitization and automation, actionable insights from data while focusing the employee listening and experience agenda.

"Analytics without action is just overhead”

Birgitte Skaare is the Senior Manager for People Insights at Hydro, where she leads the company’s global strategy for People Insights. Her work spans several key areas, including data products and technology, employee listening, supporting HR upskilling, and fostering a data-driven culture across the People organization. She holds a master’s degree in organizational psychology and has worked for several years in operational HR before specializing in people analytics, combining her interest in psychology and an empirical approach to HR with a growing focus on data and technology. Her role involves collaboration with stakeholders across the organization, with the goal of ensuring that data insights are translated into meaningful actions to improve outcomes for business and employees.

Birgitte Skaare is the Senior Manager for People Insights at Hydro, where she leads the company’s global strategy for People Insights. Her work spans several key areas, including data products and technology, employee listening, supporting HR upskilling, and fostering a data-driven culture across the People organization. She holds a master’s degree in organizational psychology and has worked for several years in operational HR before specializing in people analytics, combining her interest in psychology and an empirical approach to HR with a growing focus on data and technology. Her role involves collaboration with stakeholders across the organization, with the goal of ensuring that data insights are translated into meaningful actions to improve outcomes for business and employees.

Birgitte Skaare is the Senior Manager for People Insights at Hydro, where she leads the company’s global strategy for People Insights. Her work spans several key areas, including data products and technology, employee listening, supporting HR upskilling, and fostering a data-driven culture across the People organization. She holds a master’s degree in organizational psychology and has worked for several years in operational HR before specializing in people analytics, combining her interest in psychology and an empirical approach to HR with a growing focus on data and technology. Her role involves collaboration with stakeholders across the organization, with the goal of ensuring that data insights are translated into meaningful actions to improve outcomes for business and employees.

As a dynamic human centric business leader my mission is to drive performance and growth with people. I am known for empowering teams and building trust to maximize performance. I have driven organizational change and led significant transformation projects managing multi- million euro budgets.

As a seasoned senior leader I have significant experience of serving as a board member, managing and mentoring senior leaders, remote HR teams, designing HR strategies, implementing cultural transformation programmes, acting as a strategic adviser at a board level, leading HR investigations, union negotiations, EWC consultations, restructuring, organizational design, transformation and HR digitalization programmes.

My experience spans various industries including professional services, information technology, telecom and automotive industry.

I pride myself on my strong empathy, interpersonal and communication skills.

I am an accomplished conference speaker, CIPD qualified HR professional, an accredited coach and CEDR mediator.

Initially leveraging on Technical skills acquired in different middle Office jobs in Investment Banking throughout 10 years experience with significant project management focus, I have consolidated strong people skills thanks to diverse job exposures.

Throughout my career, I have developed a passion for building Teams, managing and developing Human Capital, which are key aspects for organizational efficiency.

For more than 6 years now I have been leading People/HR Analytics initiatives in Societe Generale. I strongly believe in the usage of Technologies, leveraging and linking Business and HR data to assist in fact based decision making, mitigate conscious and unconscious bias observed in people management practices to ultimately contribute to maximize the firms’ revenues and long term profitability.

The Pop in Your Job:
What motivates me in my job is the challenge to bring our People Data together worldwide, leveraging from a complex and decentralized HRIS environment, and the ability to make some fact based decision to accompany the HR and the Business strategy overall. I am also passionate in accompanying and upskilling the HR Filiere worldwide towards better data literacy.

Katja is an accomplished HR and technology leader with more than a decade at Bosch and over 20 years of experience spanning HR, IT, and business transformation. In her current role as Director HR Digitalization & HR Analytics Lead, she drives the global digital HR strategy, leading initiatives in HR analytics, data governance, and IT architecture to enable smarter, data-driven decision-making.

Previously, she held senior leadership positions at Bosch, including Director Competence Management & Training and Director & Solution Manager Data Protection, where she advanced organizational capability building, digital compliance, and people development programs. Earlier in her career at IBM, she managed international projects in SAP, IT strategy, and automation, shaping large-scale transformation initiatives.

Passionate about the intersection of people, data, and technology, Katja focuses on enabling innovation, driving digital HR solutions, and developing future-ready organizations.