Advanced Human Resource Executive Program
Successful HR leaders create a clear, compelling vision that drives performance in today’s complex business environment. This program empowers you to lead with confidence at the highest levels—equipping you with the strategic insight, influence, and capabilities to shape the future of your organization.
- Transform Strategy into Tangible Organizational Value: Strategic HR investments in time and resources boost employee engagement, retention, and productivity—driving better performance and a stronger bottom line. Learn how to maximize organizational value through focused HR efforts.
- Master Internal Dynamics to Maximize Influence: Advance your career by mastering proven frameworks to build and manage high-impact relationships with your C-suite and Board.
- Leverage Outcomes to Strengthen the Business Case for HR: Learn how to use financial statements, prepare for analyst calls, and build the business case for HR activities.
- Harness Internal Culture to Strengthen Teams and Boost Performance: Organizations with strong corporate cultures demonstrate a 4x higher revenue growth rate compared to those with weak or misaligned cultures. Learn to understand the daily actions that an individual and a team can take to improve culture.
- Make HR a True Strategy Driver: Gain insights into best practices for leading the HR function to attract top talent and build a resilient workforce that transforms HR into a strategic driver by closing existing gaps and adopting best practices for navigating uncertainty in the evolving HR landscape.
- Unlock the Strategic Power of HR with AI and Data-Driven Decisions: Learn how AI and data analytics can help you evolve HR from a traditionally administrative role to a strategic driver of culture and performance.
- C-level and Senior HR and talent executives
- Group, Global, or Executive Directors of HR
- Heads of corporate learning or corporate universities
- General Managers who recognize the importance of HR to business success
Senior HR leaders today face immense pressure to deliver strategic value amid constant change. Increasingly, HR Executives are being called to align strategy and business outcomes with HR initiatives while also influencing culture changes within their organizations. Many leaders are also expected to adopt new technologies like AI, manage organizational uncertainty, and influence decisions at the highest levels—all while maintaining trust across the organization.
This program is designed to help HR leaders meet those challenges with confidence. You’ll learn to set and execute an HR strategy that enables your organization’s success and prepares you for continual change, with tools and insights you can apply immediately.
This program is built around four key themes that define HR leadership today:
1. Ascending to the C-Suite – Strengthening your executive presence, influence, and strategic voice.
2. Leading From the HR Role – Driving impact across the organization through HR strategy.
3. AI & Data Analytics: Realizing Opportunities – Using data to inform decision-making and shape the future of work.
4. Culture & Strategy: Transforming Organizations – Leading meaningful change aligned to business goals.
Throughout the program, you'll work on an organizational challenge you bring with you—applying program insights, gaining input from Michigan Ross faculty, your peers, and experienced CHROs from leading companies. You'll leave with a clear, actionable plan and the leadership capacity to make it happen.
World-renowned Ross faculty experts will guide you through the latest tools and frameworks to enhance your individual and team leadership capabilities while you engage with global participants across diverse industries.
Program directors work closely with faculty before, during, and after the program to ensure you achieve your objectives. Through dynamic, immersive learning experiences–including assessments, simulations, expert panels, and action-based applications–you’ll leave with an actionable plan to implement meaningful change in your organization.
Program managers facilitate a seamless transition between classroom and off-site activities and assist with anything you might need–ensuring your focus is on learning, not logistics.
For more program details, including topics and structure, download the program brochure.
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- Earn credit(s) toward the Distinguished Leader Certificate (DLC) for qualifying in-person or online programs. (Only one eligible online program can be counted toward the DLC.)