Detroit, Michigan, United States, January 2026 — Tenneco has welcomed Nicole Rogers as Senior Talent Manager – Performance Solutions, strengthening its focus on talent development, leadership capability, and performance-driven workforce strategies. In her new role, Rogers is expected to contribute to building scalable talent systems that support business growth and organizational effectiveness, aligned with “The Tenneco Way” — the company’s culture-led approach to developing people, delivering customer excellence, and building long-term capability.
Before joining Tenneco, Nicole Rogers spent nearly seven years at ZF Group, where she led enterprise-wide talent, capability, and inclusivity initiatives across global and regional teams. Most recently, she served as Talent Management and Inclusivity Lead, partnering with senior leadership to evolve diversity and inclusion strategies, support employee resource groups, and sustain programs aligned with business priorities while navigating changing regulatory expectations.
Earlier at ZF Group, she held the role of Talent Management Lead, driving leadership development and talent management initiatives across North America for a workforce of more than 11,000 employees across 33 locations. Her work included onboarding and engagement programs, performance and succession planning leadership, inclusive leadership training, career development and coaching programs reaching hundreds of employees, and partnering with HR technology teams to strengthen talent analytics and internal mobility.
Prior to that, Rogers served as Program Manager – Competencies and Reskilling, where she helped define and launch major global leadership development frameworks, supported competency model creation for large functional populations, and led reskilling initiatives to address critical capability gaps in fast-evolving sectors. She also worked as ZF Global Electronics Technical Training Supervisor, building global training solutions, onboarding frameworks across multiple geographies, and digitally enabled competency management tools that supported development conversations and organizational readiness.
Earlier in her career, Rogers worked with the State of Michigan, Office of Career and Technical Education as a Learning Program Manager, managing approximately $30M in grants to strengthen industry-education partnerships and large-scale workforce readiness programs. She began her professional journey in education, serving as an Educational Leader and Teacher with Farmington Public Schools, where she developed learning programs and led operational responsibilities—experience that shaped her strengths in development, performance enablement, and large-scale stakeholder collaboration.
Tenneco is a global manufacturer and distributor to the transportation industry, focused on being a trusted partner to customers through operational excellence and innovation. The company emphasizes culture as a sustainable competitive advantage, brought to life through “The Tenneco Way,” which combines core values, leadership mindset, and continuous development of teams.
Through this culture-led approach, Tenneco aims to create opportunities for employees, build stronger organizational capability, and deliver consistent value to customers across its business segments. The company’s focus on developing talent and strengthening leadership pipelines supports its ambition to win in a competitive and fast-evolving transportation landscape.
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