Expand Your Team’s Strategic Reach and Business Influence
Introducing HCI’s Advanced Strategic HR Business Partner (Advanced SHRBP), the next level of the acclaimed Strategic HR Business Partner accreditation.
Moving beyond scenario-based learning, the new advanced version requires HR Business Partners to bring current organizational challenges they're actively working to solve. Through peer consulting, business simulations, and applied exercises, they'll explore systems dynamics, behavioral economics in talent strategy, and scenario planning for future disruptions.
This is a hands-on learning lab where participants will pressure-test solutions, receive structured feedback, and practice influencing under real-world executive conditions. Teams leave with sharper strategies for their real business challenges, stronger influence capabilities, and accountability partnerships to sustain progress long after the program ends.
Program At a Glance:
- Duration: Two days
- Format: Facilitator-led, available for in-person and virtual delivery
- Learning Components: Lectures, interactive labs, peer consulting & simulations
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Your team will elevate their strategic impact by:
Strengthening systems thinking capabilities to identify leverage points for large-scale organizational changes.
Building executive influence skills to shape senior leader decisions.
Applying behavioral economics and workforce analytics to design talent solutions that anticipate human behavior.
Practicing courageous conversations and presentation skills with peer and facilitator feedback.
Developing accountability partnerships and concrete action commitments to sustain strategic impact.
Utilizing a cumulative toolkit of worksheets, templates, frameworks, and assessments to apply learning to real projects and initiatives.
Agenda
Day 1: Strategic Consulting, Systems Thinking, & Future-Focused Framing
Welcome & Introductions
Set expectations & share the real organizational challenges.
Consulting & Influence in Practice
Learn to map stakeholders, frame HR issues, & deploy tailored influence.
Systems Thinking & Strategic Leverage
Map system dynamics, identify intervention points, & translate insights.
Behavioral Economics in Talent Strategy
Learn how cognitive biases derail HR initiatives.
Future of Work + Scenario Planning
Utilize scenario planning & the PESTLE framework.
Mini-Pitch: Strategic Problem Framing
Practice framing your challenge in executive-ready language.
Day 2: Data, Influence, and Strategic Talent Solutioning
Reflections + Reframing
Review Day 1 insights and strategically reframe your challenge.
Workforce Analytics for Storytelling
Transform analytics into a persuasion tool.
Talent Solutioning Design Lab
Generate bold HR solutions & evaluate them using option mapping & cost-benefit analysis.
Influencing Up: Courageous Conversations
Master three influence strategies & practice challenging leaders.
Capstone Presentations
Deliver a comprehensive pitch to a feedback panel.
Debrief + Next Steps
Translate program insights into commitments & establish accountability partnerships.
Discover more about Advanced Strategic HR Business Partner team certification.
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 their 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.
Who should attend advanced SHRBP?
This program is designed for HR Business Partners with 5–7+ years of experience or those who have completed HCI’s Strategic HR Business Partner Certification or have equivalent HR Business Partner experience . Participants should have a proven ability to lead strategic talent initiatives and bring a current organizational challenge they're actively working to solve.
Do participants have to complete Strategic HR Business Partner as a prerequisite?
No. Advanced Strategic HR Business Partner can be taken as a stand-alone learning experience. While it’s designed to build on concepts introduced in SHRBP, completing that program first is not required.
Can I purchase Advanced Strategic HR Business Partner for myself?
No, this program is only offered for internal teams or cohorts. We offer our foundational Strategic HR Business Partner Certification to individuals and teams. Join an upcoming public cohort here.
Ready to take the next step toward building a highly strategic group of business partners?
Connect with one of our Strategic Learning Partners to discuss how Advanced SHRBP can help your HR team strengthen systems thinking, expand executive influence, and solve their most pressing current challenges.
