Emeritus Institute of Management
Wharton Executive Educations Chief Human Resources Officer Program
Online
Course
DURATION
12 months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
Blended
Key Summary
Lead organizational change
Faced with today’s uncertain business landscape, HR leaders now play a pivotal role in the paradigm shift occurring in the industry. Organizations are increasingly recognizing talent as a top priority and the importance of the HR executive, whose role has never been more integral or critical to the bottom line.
If you want to discover powerful ways to drive change in your organization, then the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) Program is for you. This comprehensive, 9 to 12-month program will help take you beyond your current role into one that transforms the future of the company. It is an opportunity for you to leverage organizational change and accelerate your impact.
- 75% of leaders say the evolving role of HR is important for them. (Source: Deloitte Insights)
- 75% of HR professionals say that HR's accountability will undergo expansion. (Source: Deloitte Insights)
- 84% of professionals say they need to rethink their workforce experience to improve productivity. (Source: Deloitte Insights)
Customized design for your success
The CHRO Program is designed with the needs of busy executives in mind. You will learn through online sessions, including fireside chats and guest lectures from leading researchers and global industry leaders. The flexible format of the CHRO Program allows you to customize your learning journey for maximum career and business impact.
Flexible
The self-paced modules provide the flexibility to accommodate learning between your busy work schedule. The program can be completed in 9 to 12 months as your schedule and program selections demand.
Interactive
A community learning experience with a limited cohort size facilitates weekly interactive discussions with peers, program coaches, faculty, industry speakers, and career advisors — allowing you to implement program learnings to real-world scenarios.
Transformative
The multimodular learning journey experience, including the capstone project, allows you to learn and grow as an executive while enabling you to develop impactful HR strategies to improve your personal and organizational goals.
“Rapid changes in the field of human resources have placed greater expectations on the shoulders of HR leaders. Senior professionals are now expected to be involved in strategizing and developing unique ways to aid the organization’s innovation goals, create a high-performing work environment, and even provide guidance to the executive leadership team. We are delighted to offer this comprehensive program to help HR leaders sharpen their people management skills and create impactful outcomes in their organizations.”
— Matthew Bidwell
Academic Director for the CHRO Program, Wharton Executive Education; Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Who is it for?
The CHRO Program is ideal for:
- Chief HR officers or chief people officers who offer counsel to senior leadership or the board of directors
- Senior HR leaders across talent, people management, compensation, employee engagement, performance, and operations who are steeped in the complexities of the HR functions
Program eligibility criteria include:
- A minimum of 10 years of work experience
- International exposure (preferred)
- Fluency in written and spoken English
What you will learn in the CHRO Program
The multimodular program will enable you to:
- Investigate the application of human resources strategies to organizational approaches
- Survey an organization’s human and social capital for competitive advantage
- Relate talent approaches to succession planning and strategic workforce management with internal development and external hiring
- Explore approaches for career development, hiring processes, and diversity
- Consider effective principles and practices of leadership
- Examine aspects of change management
Program highlights
- Customize your learning journey with a choice of electives in topics aligned with your career goals.
- Learn at your own pace with a weekly commitment of three to five hours of sessions and activities.
- Glean insights from renowned faculty and industry experts who are at the cutting edge of innovation.
- Network with accomplished peers from around the globe and gain new approaches to leadership.
- Engage with your success coach to craft your learning journey through regular check-in sessions.
- Benefit from experiential sessions combining theory with real-world case studies and apply learnings.
- Meet multiple cohort peers, industry experts, and faculty during two days of on-campus networking.
Following successful completion of the program and subsequent open-enrollment programs, subject to further qualification criteria and additional tuition, you have a pathway to apply for Wharton alumni status.
The CHRO Program will enable forward-thinking executives like you to learn from a cutting-edge curriculum that reflects current industry trends. The program is organized into two components — 18 weeks of core modules followed by three online electives of six weeks each.
Core modules (online and live online | 18 weeks)
Elevating the CHRO Role
- The Opportunity and the Trap
- Strategy Assessment
- Human Resource Systems and Strategy
- Strategy Creation
- Strategy Implementation
- Solving Challenges with Human Resources
Human Capital and Talent Strategy
- Talent Strategy
- What Do Your Employees Want? A Career Perspective
- Managing the Talent Pipeline
- Performance Management
- Diversity
- Analytics and New Technologies in Talent Management
Leading Culture and Organizational Change
- What Kind of Leader Are You?
- Generating a Compelling Vision: The Science Behind Creativity and Cascading
- Making Your Vision a Reality: The Science Behind Culture and Communication
- The Rider: Creating Change by Shaping the Way People Think
- The Elephant: Creating Change through Emotion
- The Path: Creating Change by Molding the Situation
Note: Session topics are subject to change.
*Electives (online | six weeks each | choose any three)
- Executive Presence and Influence: Persuasive Leadership Development
- Corporate Governance: Maximize Your Effectiveness in the Boardroom
- Mastering Talent Management: Hiring, Engaging, and Rewarding A+ Talent
- Executive Compensation: Strategies and Frameworks
- Future of Work: Leading Modern Workplaces
- HR Management and Analytics: Unlock the Value of Human Capital
*Electives are subject to change.
Networking and graduation (two days | on campus)
Meet your cohort peers and faculty in person on the Wharton campus in Philadelphia during an optional two-day networking and graduation event. This event takes place once every four cohorts, providing an opportunity to network with your peers and professionals from other cohorts to create a lifelong community of global executives.
Capstone project
The capstone project provides a deeper dive into all that you have learned during the program. While leveraging concepts studied throughout the journey, it provides additional engagement with faculty and peers as well as an opportunity for further reflection on the challenges and opportunities you face. As part of the capstone project, you will apply program insights to an HR initiative and prepare an action plan for implementation while being guided by a learning facilitator.