Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) Program
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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 this executive HR 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 HR 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.
Past participant profiles
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Work experience
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What you will learn in the CHRO Program
This HR leadership 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 and faculty during two days of optional on-campus networking.
Following successful completion of the HR certificate program and subsequent open-enrollment programs, subject to further qualification criteria and additional tuition, you have a pathway to apply for Wharton alumni status.
Curriculum
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.
Capstone project
The capstone project provides a deeper dive into all that you have learned during this human resource 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.
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
Hear from our participants
Meet the faculty
Academic Director for the CHRO Program, Wharton Executive Education; Xingmei Zhang and Yongge Dai Professor; Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Associate Professor of Management, The Wharton School
Professor of Management, Co-Director of the Mack Institute for Innovation Management, The Wharton School
Past speakers
Former Global Head of Talent at Bloomberg LP
Former CHRO, Yahoo! Inc and Southwest Airlines
Meet your success coaches
Success Coach
Allison Wright is a certified executive coach and a former senior executive at Verizon. She is an expert in talent management and organizational change.
Success Coach
An executive coach with global expertise, Lee has successfully led organizations through transformational change. He has extensive experience leading regional, country, and gl...
Success Coach
Anand is an HR and business leader with over twenty-five years of experience in enabling strategic business transformation through organizational change, talent management, pr...
Success Coach
Ellen’s background includes in-depth experience in all aspects of Human Resources including change management, talent management, executive coaching, and HR metrics.
Pathway to Wharton alumni status
For more than 135 years, Wharton has been the place where visionaries, inventors, and trailblazers get their start. After completing the CHRO Program and subsequent open-enrollment programs, subject to further qualification criteria and additional tuition, you have a pathway to apply for Wharton alumni status.
Executives who successfully complete the CHRO Program have the option of applying to the General Management Program (GMP). The GMP provides further opportunity to enhance your leadership skills and business acumen with a flexible curriculum. The CHRO Program provides one credit towards the six required to complete the GMP and earn alumni status. More details on the GMP is available at Wharton Executive Education.
Upon qualifying for Wharton alumni status, you will be eligible to receive:
Full access to become a member of 77+ Wharton alumni clubs
Invitation to attend future Wharton global alumni forums
A Wharton email address
Certificate
Earn a Wharton Executive Education digital certificate upon successful completion of the program. Past participants of the HR leadership program get exclusive access to a wide range of professionals, events, and networking opportunities. Furthermore, you can also benefit from additional tuition assistance upon enrolling in further online programs from Wharton Executive Education.
Note: After successful completion of the program, your verified digital certificate will be emailed to you in the name you used when registering for the program. All certificate images are for illustrative purposes only and may be subject to change at the discretion of the Wharton School.
Please also note that participation in the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) Program (a) will not result in a degree from, alumni status with, or earned credit at the University of Pennsylvania or the Wharton School (or, to Wharton’s knowledge, any other institution), (b) will not be recorded on a University of Pennsylvania or Wharton transcript, and (c) does not guarantee or suggest that a participant will be admitted to the University of Pennsylvania, the Wharton School, or to any other university or institution.
FAQs
Connect with a Program Advisor for a 1:1 Session
Email: wharton_chro@emeritus.org
Phone: +1 561 486 7448 (U.S.) / +44 1135 191350 (U.K.) / +971 80 0088601095 (U.A.E.) / +52 55970 90243 (LATAM)
Flexible payment options available.
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