“You don’t build businesses. You build people, and people build the business.”
This isn’t a tagline for a leadership seminar, it’s the foundation of sustainable business success. And yet, HR leaders, the very individuals responsible for developing and empowering people, have long been confined to transactional territory. It’s time we confront a fundamental disconnect: why is the function most equipped to drive people outcomes often left out of the rooms where business outcomes are shaped?
HR Leaders and their role has been typecast as a support function, responsible for managing compliance, overseeing compensation, implementing performance systems, and occasionally driving cultural initiatives. While these responsibilities are necessary, they are not its ceiling, they are its starting point. What’s often missing is recognition of HR leaders strategic bandwidth: the ability to influence the levers of revenue, innovation, and transformation.
Let’s be clear: if HR...
