Onboarding & adoption
Planning and running system rollouts end to end: training 30+ colleagues, building guides and FAQs, and following up on whether the tool is actually being used. Planning time down 20%, zero disruption.
Ruth Grinko
Education · Onboarding · Events — Stockholm, Sweden · Swedish · English · Russian
Swedish residence and work permit
Seven years in education — teaching, building courses, coordinating in schools — and on the other side of it, running the rollouts. I know what a teacher thinks when yet another digital tool arrives. Adoption is rarely about the software; it's decided by whether people feel someone understands their day.

Planning and running system rollouts end to end: training 30+ colleagues, building guides and FAQs, and following up on whether the tool is actually being used. Planning time down 20%, zero disruption.
Collecting and analysing feedback from 300+ users, separating what someone says from what the problem actually is, and turning patterns into concrete changes. Satisfaction and engagement up 25% year over year.
Personnel responsibility for a team that grew from four to twenty: onboarding, development conversations, work environment and rehabilitation. Training and presentations for groups of 20 to 300.
Daily user of Claude and ChatGPT. Built and shipped my own bilingual web product with a writing-practice bot, @manzhetapaper_bot. Python and R basics, BA in Computational Linguistics with programming and statistics. Microsoft 365 incl. Excel, Google Workspace, Monday.com, Notion, Trello, Slack, Zoom, Canva, Genially, Prezi.
Interbok
Stockholm · Mar 2024 – presentContext: Retail and events business serving customers and partners across Scandinavia.
Stockholms stad
Stockholm · Apr 2025 – Jul 2026Write Like a Grrrl
2024 – 2025 · remoteLukuLab (ex. Reading Laboratory)
Dec 2017 – Dec 2021Context: Education company: online school for ages 6–16 and a course platform.
HSE University Lyceum
Jan 2019 – Aug 2021EF English First
2018Stockholm University, 2023–2026
Campus Nyköping, 2022–2023
HSE University, 2019–2021
HSE University, 2015–2019
Programming, statistics and mathematical linguistics. Foreign qualifications assessed by UHR.
Published fiction author — «The Room of Solace» (Polyandria NoAge, 2025); a second novel is forthcoming in December 2026. Writing, events and press: halfnotruth.pages.dev Outside work: books and creative writing, food and culinary exploration, mindfulness, and discovering new cultures and perspectives.