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Build an Organisation for a Future in Flux

The Future CHRO

Dates

Feb 12 - Sep 7, 2025
Duration

6 months
Fee

INR 6,00,000 + taxes
Format

On-Campus and Live Virtual
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Overview

Overview
Curriculum
Faculty
Executive Benefits
Participant Stories

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Summary

In the evolving landscape of modern enterprises, the role of CHROs is increasingly crucial in sculpting an organisation that is fit for the future. The Future CHRO programme is strategically developed to empower HR leaders with advanced strategies and insights, enabling them to be at the forefront of organisational change and digital innovation within the HR spectrum.

Key Benefits

HR leaders will acquire a comprehensive understanding of the digital landscape, reshaping the HR function to be more adaptive and forward-looking. They will gain the skills necessary to lead with innovative digital strategies, driving transformation and guiding their organisations through the intricacies of the digital era.

Key Takeaways

Elevate your thinking to lead the HR function and advise and counsel the CEO to get your organisation future-ready
Drive synergy by integrating business strategy and human capital management
Design the organisation for a future in flux
Future-proof your role and bring the HR function to the forefront of corporate decision-making
Understand the financial impact of people-related business decisions
Engage managers to deliver exceptional employee experiences
Revisit comp & benefits strategies to address next-gen requirements
Help leaders lead from the front amid disruption
Retire, renew, and renovate legacy HR systems
Connect people’s data with business decisions by driving people analytics
Gain perspectives on self-leadership, global HR leadership and best practices
Learn to manage talent in a hybrid/ virtual model
Advance your career with high-impact networking and diverse industry perspectives

Is This Programme For You?

This programme is best suited for senior executives with 15+ years of work experience, on track to or ambitious of becoming a CHRO. Professionals aspiring to be trusted advisors to CEOs and CXOs with future-ready capabilities to drive business growth and digital transformation should attend this programme. Exposure to the fundamentals of business strategy, people systems, and processes would be an advantage. The programme is also beneficial to senior HR professionals holding VP, GM, CHRO titles to keep up to date with the latest advances in the discipline.

Learning Experience

ISB Executive Education programmes are replete with distinctive teaching methodologies and an intense and challenging learning environment that pushes participants’ learning horizons beyond their pre-existing beliefs. Through lectures from distinguished faculty, local and global case studies, business simulations, and group discussions with extraordinary peers from a broad range of industries, regions, and functions, you will be equipped with the strategies, tools and insights required to transform your thinking and achieve ambitious business objectives. You will return to your organisation, fully ready to apply what you have learned. You will also take with you a rich network of relationships that will enrich your personal and professional lives long after you complete the programme.

The learning experience at ISB is a rich blend of on-campus classes, live virtual sessions, and self-paced online modules taught by the best minds in academia and industry.

Blended Programme: Our blended programmes combine in-person and live virtual learning. Our live virtual sessions deliver a rigorous and rich learning experience that is comparable to our in-person programs.

Admission Criteria

To ensure a dynamic and diverse batch profile, candidates will be evaluated based on multiple factors, including but not limited to:

Appropriate experience profile for this programme
Leadership potential
Evidence of professional achievement
Industry and functional background
Motivation to participate in the programme and the ability to benefit from it
Ability to cope with the rigour of the programme

We admit candidates based on a rolling, space- available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible to secure your seat in the programme.

The On-campus sessions are subject to the evolving global situation. Programme content, dates, schedule, fees, delivery platforms, and faculty are subject to change. The programme fee includes food and accommodation at the ISB campus, or an equivalent facility based on availability.

Programme Curriculum

Module 1: Talent, Leadership Development and Strategy

Get an overview of strategic perspective and thinking
Familiarise yourself with the drivers of competition & strategy
Formulate strategy for multi-business corporations and MNCs
Explore strategies for the digital economy
Create a vision for the execution of your strategic roadmap
Shaping of strategy by CHROs for building people-centric organisations

Module 2: Business Acumen for CHRO

Revisit business finance essentials
Enhance your knowledge of financial statements and terminology
Gain an understanding of how people-related business decisions impact financial metrics

Module 3: Organisation Design for the Future

Explore various forms of organisations and linkages to strategy
Learn about teams and coordination mechanisms (centralisation, decentralisation, flat and agile)
Reimagine organisations for the future – study the impact of work from anywhere, hybrid work, and digital transformation

Module 4: Talent and Leadership Development

Identify the right talent and build a pipeline of future leaders
Drive next-generation Performance Management and feedback systems through managers
Craft leadership development strategies and journeys
Design and deliver exceptional talent experience
Coach and partner people managers to design and execute a robust talent agenda
Leverage new-age talent ecosystems and reimagine careers

Module 5: Leading Transformations

Learn the building blocks of organisational culture
Renew and renovate culture
Learn theories and frameworks related to change management
Learn to execute organisation-wide change effectively
Understand the essentials of persuasion and influencing
Explore the role of CHRO as a change agent

Module 6: People Analytics

Connect people’s data to business decisions.
Study and appreciate successful use cases in people analytics
Gain a hands-on understanding of the latest people analytics tools and frameworks for insights and informed decision making

Module 7: Self-Leadership

Reimagine leadership in an age of disruption
Learn how to be an influential leader at work
Develop your leadership journey
Learn to find meaning at work through job crafting
Drive mindset transformation at the workplace
Usher in the new-age CHRO

Module 8: Global Leadership

Gain diverse perspectives of global HR leadership
Discover competencies of future global HR leaders
Understand the role of cross-cultural intelligence
Overcome challenges and gain insights into cross-border people management

Module 9: Future of Work

Gain an understanding of the post-pandemic perspectives on the future of work
Deep dive into organisation design considerations and choices (Work-from-Office/ Home/Anywhere), and hybrid work
How to make hybrid work, work
Learn how to collaborate, manage, and lead people in the virtual world

Faculty

ISB faculty includes leading academics with credentials and teaching experience from top global business schools as well as accomplished practitioners who have managed large enterprises.

Chandrasekhar Sripada

Professor of Organisational Behaviour (Practice), ISB

Programme Director

The Future CHRO

S Ramnarayan

Professor of Organisational Behaviour (Practice), ISB

Prothit Sen

Assistant Professor of Strategy, ISB

Richard Smith

Professor of Management & Organisation

Visiting Faculty, ISB

Jaideep Anand

William H. Davis Chair and Dean’s Distinguished Professor of Strategy, The Ohio State University

Visiting Faculty, ISB

Himanshu Tambe

Adjunct Faculty, Singapore University of Management,

Visitng Faculty, ISB

Gopalan V

Visiting Faculty, ISB

ISB Certificate

After successful completion of this programme, you will be awarded an ISB Executive Education Certificate, formal recognition of your professional development.

ISB Executive Alumni

On successful completion of this programme, participants gain the ISB Executive Alumni status. The privileges of this exclusive community include:

Access to the Executive Alumni portal
Personal ISB e-mail ID
Access to ISB Executive Network LinkedIn Group
Access to the support team over the telephone
20% discount on open executive education programmes

In addition to the above, ISB Executive Alumni are eligible to receive ongoing access to a variety of ISB research, information, and resources.

Please note that the access to the Learning Resource Centre (LRC) has been extended for participants of this programme for use throughout the programme duration. Participants will be liable to pay & procure LRC’s paid content.

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Participant Stories

Become a Future-Ready CHRO

Become a strategic leader, advise and counsel the CEO and other C-suite executives

Priya Mathilakath Pillai

Head HR, Titan Company Ltd.

Design Organisation of the Future

Connect people data with business strategy decisions with people analytics

Karthik B

People Partner Senior Manager HR, Maersk

Reimagine HR Leadership

Business is all about people, and people are all about business

Saswati Bose

Head-CSR, Exide Industries Ltd.

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Build an Organisation for a Future in Flux

The Future CHRO

The Future CHRO

Summary

Key Benefits

Key Takeaways

Is This Programme For You?

Learning Experience

Admission Criteria

Programme Curriculum

Module 1: Talent, Leadership Development and Strategy

Module 2: Business Acumen for CHRO

Module 3: Organisation Design for the Future

Module 4: Talent and Leadership Development

Module 5: Leading Transformations

Module 6: People Analytics

Module 7: Self-Leadership

Module 8: Global Leadership

Module 9: Future of Work

Faculty

Chandrasekhar Sripada

S Ramnarayan

Prothit Sen

Richard Smith

Jaideep Anand

Himanshu Tambe

Gopalan V

ISB Certificate

ISB Executive Alumni

Participant Stories

Become a Future-Ready CHRO

Priya Mathilakath Pillai

Design Organisation of the Future

Karthik B

Reimagine HR Leadership

Saswati Bose

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What does it take to be The Future CHRO?

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