Turning Data into Action

Regina Bergdolt: hands-on expert with strong digital expertise.

Regina Bergdolt

Regina Bergdolt is one of the leading experts on specialist careers. She is the author of four books, a software entrepreneur and an AI manager. Building AI expertise is a growing focus of her work with organisations.

As a speaker and seminar leader, she inspires people to rethink careers – moving beyond traditional hierarchies and structuring them around measurable added value.

For over 15 years, she has been implementing specialist career projects, often in the IT sector. She is also the author of the seminal work *Strategically Shaping Specialist Careers: The Alternative to a Management Career* (published in 2026 by De Gruyter).

Regina Bergdolt

At a glance

  • Leading expert on specialist careers – numerous reference projects
  • Standard reference work *Strategically Shaping Specialist Careers: The Alternative to a Management Career* (2026, DeGruyter)
  • Developing AI expertise within organisations
  • Product Owner for the HR software *fairselection* for job profiles and structured interviews
  • Experienced in international projects, multilingual
  • Skilled at collaborating with all stakeholders, including at board level
  • Constructive leadership in projects

Qualifications IT/AI

Certified AI Manager with Use Cases (2024):

  • Technical basics (neural networks, LLM, APIs)
  • Market view: AI providers and services
  • Innovation management: Using AI applications
  • Development of an AI strategy, AI goals and data strategy
  • Methods: Prompt engineering and fine-tuning
  • Data protection and EU AI Act as a framework for AI use

Workshop ‘Automation with AI’ (2025)

Tec, Data Science, Cloud

  • 2023 Tec Update: Current developments around AI, blockchain and IoT
    (Hasso Plattner Institute)
  • 2023 Overview course ChatGPT and generative AI
    (Hasso Plattner Institute, exam result among the 10 % best)
  • 2023 Data Engineering and Data Science
    (Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Professor Dr. Felix Naumann)
  • 2022 Cloud computing (virtualisation, platforms, systems)
    (Hasso Plattner Institute, exam result among the 20 % best)
  • 2020 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
    (Hasso Plattner Institute, exam result among the 20 % best)
  • 2019 Workshops on artificial intelligence with Python
    Guest lecturers from the University of Berkeley

Qualifications SAP/Agile

  • 2023 Certificate Course „Guide Your SAP S/4HANA Project to Success“ (Overview S/4 HANA)
  • 2022 SFX exam for SAP SuccessFactors Modules Employee Central (Central Core Expert) and Recruiting (Recruiter Experience Expert), also Platform Introduction Academy
  • 2022 Open SAP Course SuccessFactors Learning Module: Get Your Implementation Right!
  • 2021 SAP SuccessFactors Performance and Goal Management Academy at SAP Walldorf
  • 2021 Certificate SAP User HCM with Financial Accounting
  • 2021 Building Better Products with a Human-Centered Product Backlog
    (Certificate Course OpenSAP)
  • 2020 Certified Chief Digital Officer: Platform economy & digital business modelling, customer experience design, digital transformation in companies with strategy framework, IoT applications
  • 2020 Professional Scrum Product Owner (scrum.org)
  • 2020 Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance)
  • 2019 Specialist for networked IT systems, certificate course at Chamber of Commerce Training Centre Karlsruhe
  • 2019 External Data Protection Officer, course at Chamber of Commerce Training Centre Karlsruhe
  • 2019 Certified Scrum Master

Working Languages

  • German and English, both level C2
  • French Level B2
  • Danish Level A2

Consulting Qualifications

  • 2004/2005 One-year further training “Coaching in practice” (Odenwald Institute)
  • 2001/2002 One-year curriculum systemic counselling at the Institute for Systemic Counselling Wiesloch

Professional Biography

  • 2017/8 Agile development of the digital HR solution for decision-makers "fairselection“, available online at https://fairselection.info/ .
  • Since 2009 independent management consultant specialising in HR digital transformation, HR processes, specialist career paths, and personnel selection.
  • 2005 to 2008 Head of Personnel and Organisational Development at the Thieme Publishing Group for Medicine.
  • 2001 to 2005 Personnel projects for corporations, medium-sized companies and universities:
    International talent assessments and management audits in the Mondi South Africa and Neusiedler Austria merger;
    HR benchmark project in training marketing for BASF SE; Project "Personnel development in the reform process" for Volkswagen Foundation at the University of Mannheim.
  • 1999/2000 Commercial project "Product Indicators Baden-Wuerttemberg", City of Mannheim; evaluation of EU project "Job Rotation", Institute for SME Research, University of Mannheim.
  • 1996/1997 Export Sales UK-Germany, Great Britain, in cooperation with the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce.
  • 1996 Bachelor (Training/HR) in Great Britain; 1999 Diploma in Social Sciences (Statistics, Psychology) in Germany; Master Thesis at SAP Walldorf.

Team Development

  • Licence for the Golden Profiler of Personality (GPOP) and the Belbin team roles

Aptitude Testing

  • Licence for the personality profiles Master Person Analysis
  • Licence Hamburg Leadership Motivation Inventory
  • Bochum Inventory for job-related personality description (BIP)

Studies

  • Diploma (Germany) at the University of Koblenz-Landau
    Main studies in business psychology, statistics and adult education
  • Diploma thesis at SAP Walldorf
  • Bachelor of Arts (Great Britain) at the University of Wolverhampton
    B.A. Second Class Honours (1st Division)