Shape Critical Talent Decisions and Drive Measurable Outcomes
The Advanced Strategic HR Business Partner certification is designed for experienced HR leaders ready to move beyond alignment and become trusted consultants who shape decisions, influence senior stakeholders, and drive measurable business outcomes.
This isn’t theoretical training or hypothetical case studies. The Advanced SHRBP program is a 2-day interactive learning experience. You’ll bring a real organizational challenge and work through it in real time — pressure-testing solutions, receiving structured peer consulting, and practicing influence in simulated executive environments. Every participant arrives with a different challenge, creating a powerful exchange of perspectives, fresh thinking, and immediately applicable insight.
Using business simulations, you'll apply systems thinking, workforce analytics, behavioral economics, and future-focused scenario planning to navigate complex human capital challenges and influence strategic decisions. You’ll leave with a refined action plan for your real business challenge, stronger executive presence, and practical tools you can apply across any organizational issue — along with a trusted network of HR peers who will continue supporting your growth long after the program ends.
What You'll Learn
Strengthen systems thinking capabilities and identify leverage points for organizational changes
Build executive presence and influence skills to shape senior leader decisions
Apply workforce analytics and behavioral economics to design talent solutions that drive engagement and performance
Present complex talent solutions and engage in courageous conversations with business stakeholders
Develop a refined action plan with clear commitments that will drive strategic impact
What to Expect
- Interactive design labs for applying design thinking to real organizational challenges
- Finish your HCI program with a guidebook, access to additional videos and research, and a set of skills that you can use on the job immediately
- Access log-in information, certification materials (participant guide and toolkit), and the exam in your MyHCI profile
- Chat and interact with faculty and peers via Zoom
- Earn your HCI certification by attending all the sessions and completing all classwork
- Renew your HCI certification every three years by obtaining 60 credits
- Attend this certification program and earn 13.5 HCI, 13.5 HRCI, 13.5 SHRM, and 13.5 ATD recertification credits
Cerify Your Team
Equip your team with industry-recognized credentials that build strategic capability and strengthen organizational impact. Through interactive learning and real-world application, your team gains unified expertise, common frameworks and language, and the credibility to drive measurable organizational results.
Start the conversation: Schedule time with a Strategic Learning Partner or email us anytime with questions.
What is the difference between Strategic HR Business Partner and Advanced Strategic HR Business Partner?
Advanced SHRBP is the next step beyond SHRBP, designed for HR leaders ready to move from strategic alignment to enterprise impact. While SHRBP builds the foundation of strategic partnership, Advanced SHRBP deepens your consulting, influence, and decision-making capabilities with senior stakeholders. Participants bring a real organizational challenge and apply advanced tools to solve it throughout the program. It’s the evolution from HR Business Partner to true strategic advisor.
Unsure about which program is the right fit for your team? Our Strategic Learning Partners can help guide you in the right direction.
Who should attend Advanced SHRBP?
This program is designed for experienced HR Business Partners who either have:
- Completed HCI's Strategic HR Business Partner Certification
- A proven track record of leading strategic talent initiatives
Ideal participants should have a proven ability to lead strategic talent initiatives and bring a current organizational challenge they're actively working to solve. Talk to a Strategic Learning Partner to see if Advanced SHRBP is a good fit for you.
Should I complete Strategic HR Business Partner before Advanced Strategic HR Business Partner?
Advanced SHRBP is designed to work both as a stand-alone experience or as a natural progression from our foundational SHRBP program. While it’s designed to build upon concepts introduced in SHRBP, completing that program first is not required, but it is recommended.
Course Outline
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Day One
- Learning lab mindset & real-challenge application
- Expectations for peer consulting & psychological safety
- Positioning Advanced SHRBP vs. foundational SHRBP
- Strategic vs. operational influence
- Stakeholder mapping & influence levers
- Business-language framing for senior leaders
- System dynamics & archetypes
- Identifying high-impact leverage points
- Converting complex maps into leader-ready insights
- Key decision biases in organizations
- Behavioral nudges & workforce design
- Anticipating predictable human behavior in HR systems
- Forecasting vs. scenario planning
- PESTLE scanning for uncertainty
- Building and pressure-testing contrasting future scenarios
- Framing: Challenge → Impact → Importance → Action
- Clarity, brevity, and business relevance
- Pitching the “why now” story
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Day Two
- Strategic reinterpretation of the challenge
- Dropping/keeping/adding based on new insights
- Strengthening focus and strategic alignment
- Selecting high-signal data
- One-slide insight storytelling
- Data-driven business cases & objection handling
- Option generation & bold solution pathways
- Impact/effort/risk evaluation
- Unintended-consequence testing & peer critique
- Influence styles (relational, rational, reputational)
- Reframing objections & handling pushback
- Executive presence and confident message delivery
- Integrated talent solution pitch
- Simulated leader Q&A and challenge response
- Demonstrating strategic clarity and influence
- Translating insights into commitments
- Accountability structures for sustained action
- Reinforcing outcomes-driven HRBP practice
