Margarita Yonova-Popova

Margarita Yonova-Popova

Former People and Culture Transformation Lead
Erste

10+ years of experience in HR strategy, employee engagement and experience, organizational design & effectiveness, change management, culture design and transformation, agile coaching, and agile frameworks and transformation.

Driven by the purpose to enable a healthy organizational culture for people to grow, collaborate and become the best version of themselves. Believes in the power of purpose, agile ways of working, and collective intelligence & co-creation. Ensures the people, culture, and leadership perspectives in every transformation journey. Passionate to contribute to the evolution of HR towards modern practices and agile mindset.

Latest role (until Feb 2023): People & Culture Transformation Lead at Erste Group with responsibilities:

  • Lead Erste Group’s HR transformation towards employee experience approach, business-centered and purpose-driven HR, and agile delivery of strategic solutions.
  • Co-shape and facilitate Erste Group’s culture transformation and values framework design in line with the business vision, through co-creation and crowdsourcing methods.
  • Grow capabilities across the organization on agile methods and ways of working through the community the “Agile Hub”.