Federal-Mogul Powertrain
A Tenneco Company
Motor Vehicle Manufacturing · Northville, Michigan · Founded 1899
Federal-Mogul was acquired by Tenneco in 2018.
Established Global Talent Management and Acquisition Capabilities at Federal-Mogul
In 2012, I became Director of Talent Management at Federal-Mogul just as the company split into two business segments, Powertrain and Motorparts, each with its own CEO and leadership team. My job was to build a talent management function from the ground up for 11,000 salaried employees across the $7 billion enterprise, covering performance management, succession planning, talent development, and talent acquisition across every region we operated in. I started as a team of three and built it up to 8 people by 2017, with talent leads across five continents. We designed the talent practices together, then worked with our vendors and the broader HR function to roll them out globally, tying everything together in an integrated Talent Management System built on Cornerstone OnDemand's SaaS Talent Suite. By 2017, over 70% of our Director-level and above leaders were selected from within Federal-Mogul, a direct result of the succession planning and development pipelines we put in place. In 2014, Cornerstone gave the program its Client RAVE award for Most Transformational HR & Talent Strategy, recognizing the impact the approach had on the business.
Built Federal-Mogul's Global Talent Academy Across Two Operating Companies
I joined Federal-Mogul to build a global talent management function from the ground up, right after a new CEO and CHRO took over and set the company on a path to split into two operating companies, Federal-Mogul Powertrain and Federal-Mogul Motorparts, sharing scaled capability teams like Talent Management. There was no existing enterprise-wide academy or learning infrastructure to support that transition, and leadership needed a consistent way to build talent and leadership bench strength across both new organizations. I designed and stood up the Federal-Mogul Academy as a full suite of programs spanning entry-level through executive talent. This included internship and rotational development programs in the US, Mexico, EMEA, India, and China, a global core curriculum covering leadership, communication, finance for non-financial managers, problem solving, and selecting talent, and assessment centers used for both selection and development. I also led the team that built out a global eLearning curriculum and LMS so business units could deploy consistent training against company standards, and delivered open-enrollment live training on five continents. At the executive level, I designed and co-facilitated the Leading from Core Values program with Jan Emerton, hosting session in the US, Mexico, Poland, Hungary, France, and Germany from 2014 to 2017 with more than 100 participants drawn from across every function, region, and business unit. The program became the common leadership development experience that tied Federal-Mogul's culture together as the company operated as two segments, and gave the organization a repeatable way to develop and connect its leadership network globally.