Amberfield unit 8, 50 West Road South, Morningside, Johannesburg, South Africa Phone: (cell);

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1 PROFESSOR SHIRLEY ZINN - 1 CURRICULUM VITAE Amberfield unit 8, 50 West Road South, Morningside, Johannesburg, South Africa Phone: (cell); szinn@iafrica.com PROFILE Well-seasoned, strategic, proactive, international HR professional who will be a catalyst for inspiring a collaboratively driven performance culture that engages all members of the workplace community in implementing new age, innovative, integrated people management solutions that will drive business success. An HR generalist, with strengths in people-driven growth, leadership, and organizational transformation and development that are aligned to strategic business objectives. Highly achievement driven, through commitment, teamwork, entreprenuership, ethics and integrity aspiring to perform and deliver at the highest level of quality and global standards, and world-class professionalism. Mobile. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 04/10/10 current Standard Bank: Deputy Global Head of Human Resources for Standard Bank Group, and Human Resources Director for Standard Bank South Africa. 01/07/05 September 2010 Nedbank: Enterprise-wide HR Director. Responsible for the overall integrity and strategic direction of the HR function for the Group. This includes responsibility for the end-to-end HR strategy, policies, procedures, systems, monitoring, reporting, compliance, measuring success in hard business metrics and world-class execution. Also includes HR budget, organisational transformation, talent and career management, performance management, remuneration and rewards, benefits, management and leadership development, OD, HR operational excellence, employee value proposition, employee relations, employee wellness, e-shared Services, payroll, attraction, retention and development of talent. In addition the role requires strong business acumen and a close strategic partnership with the business, Board and external stakeholders to deliver world class people practices and business solutions. Contributed to the successful financial turnaround and recovery of Nedbank as per 2007 Annual Report. Currently, Nedbank employs staff and is the fourth largest bank in South Africa. 1

2 2 01/02/04 30/06/05 South African Revenue Services (SARS): General Manager HR reporting into the Commissioner of SARS. Designing and delivering HR strategy, implementation, measurement of success and transforming the organisation to ensure a culture of high performance. 01/01/01 31/01/04 Reckitt Benckiser: World s Number 1 in Household Cleaning Consumer Goods Regional Human Resources Director Africa and Middle East (AME). Comprising of 4 clusters: Southern Africa, Central Africa, Middle East and North Africa, West Asia Reporting into SVP: AME and Global SVP: HR Responsible for full-spectrum of HR deliverables including strategy, attraction/branding, retention, recruitment, training and development, compensation and benefits, HR policies, labour relations, organizational design, succession planning and management/executive development, diversity, transformation and key advisor to senior and line management, as well as the Board. Also played a key role with external stakeholders and professional bodies. 11/99 12/00 Computer Configurations Holdings (CCH) - Group Executive: Equity, reporting directly to the CEO. Key strategic outputs: 1. Employment Equity (implementation of Employment Equity Act), 2. Human Resource Development and Training (implementation of Skills Development Act and Skills Development Levy Act), 3. Integrated Employment Equity into overall Human Resources Management: a. Performance Improvement, b. Recruitment c. Succession Planning d. Career Pathing e. Management and Leadership Development f. HRMIS g. Remuneration and Rewards h. HR Planning i. Role Descriptions and Grading j. Employee Benefits k. Organizational Development and Transformation l. Employee Labour Relations m. Policies and procedures 4. Social Investment, 5. Preferential Procurement and 6. Economic Empowerment 7. Liaison and consultation with business partners 2

3 3 8/ /99 Department of Public Service and Administration: Director: Special Programmes. Responsible for strategic advising, consulting, researching, designing, facilitating and co-ordinating national and provincial training programmes for Public Service Managers. Translate new public service regulations and policy into training programmes for public service managers to facilitate and accelerate implementation. The key objective of this training is to drive the transformation of the Public Service. Areas of focus include: Transformation Training, Diversity Management, Human Resources Management, Affirmative Action, Gender Mainstreaming, Strategic Planning, Team Building, Conflict Management. Also served on Performance Management, Strategic Planning, Marketing New Regulations Task Teams at DPSA. Appointed Project Manager: Human Resources Management Training: 8/1/99. Key outputs: National needs analysis and validation, course research and design, implementation, facilitation, coordination and evaluation of courses in the following six priority areas: Human resources development, human resources planning, staffing practices, performance management, job evaluation and remuneration. 4/1997-7/1998 Southern Life Association (Financial Services Company), Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa Human Resources Department. Manager: Training and Development. Responsible for the needs assessment, research, design, facilitation, and evaluation of learning programs in accordance with business needs and strategy. Served on the following Organisational Transformation Teams/Projects: Call Centre Redesign; Leadership Development; Executive Dashboard; Customer Service Re-engineering and People Processes /1997 Lecturer in Teacher Education in the Dept. of Didactics, Faculty of Education, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa Senior Language Laboratory Assistant, Faculty of Education, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa Senior Certificate English Teacher (Part-time), Savio Adult Education Centre, Lansdowne, Cape Town, South Africa English (First and Second Language) Full-time Teacher at Groenvlei Secondary School, Lansdowne, Cape Town, South Africa. 3

4 BOARD MEMBERSHIP 4 1. Immediate Past President: Institute for People Management South Africa (October 2007) 2. Monash South Africa (branch of Monash University Australia), Board member current 3. Chair: Institute of Bankers South Africa - current 4. Board Member: Bank Sector Education and Training Authority current 5. Human Capital Institute: Advisory Board Member current 6. Council Member: Tshwane University of Technology, (Pretoria) May Acting Chair: South African Board for Personnel Practice up to June SAICA: HR Committee member - current MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES 1. Institute for People Management (IPM) of South Africa. 2. Registered with the South African Board of Personnel Practitioners as Master Practitioner (highest level). 3. Member of the Institute of Directors; Black Management Forum; Business Women s Association ACADEMIC HISTORY 1979 Matriculation with Exemption, South Peninsula Secondary School, Diepriver, Cape Town, South Africa BA, University of the Western Cape (UWC), Bellville, South Africa (Latin, Sociology, English majors) 1983 Higher Diploma in Education, UWC, Bellville, South Africa B.Ed (Honours Degree), University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, South Africa Master of Education: UWC, Bellville, South Africa Master of Education: Harvard University, Cambridge, United States of America Doctor of Education: Harvard University, Cambridge, United States of America. 1/ current Professor (Extraordinaire) of Human Resources Management: Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences Graduate School, University of Pretoria, South Africa PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS/CONFERENCES, AND RESEARCH Several publications and conference presentations available. Information available upon request. 4

5 5 AWARDS Finalist: Black Business Quarterly Most Visionary Woman in Business and overall Platinum Winner, November 2008 Institute for People Management: Presidential Award for commitment to HR in South Africa, November 2008 African Awards 2008 Washington DC: Nedbank Gender Sensitivity Award October 2008 Top Woman in Business and Government, September 2008 (TopCo) Top Executive in Corporate South Africa, September 2008 (TopCo) CEO Magazine - Most Influential Women in Business and Government Award: Banking Sector, August 2008 Mumbai February 2007: Global HR Excellence Award - HR Leadership. HR Asia Pacific HRM Congress. COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: 1. Honorary Patron: Corporate Governance Foundation 2. South African Association of Learning and Educational Differences (SAALED) 3. Friends Day-care: Education for disabled children OTHER INTERESTS Sport, Dance, Travel, Living life to its fullest! 5