Leadership for HR Professionals

Redefine Your Impact as an HR Leader

To have leadership as an HR professional means moving beyond being a support function—and stepping into a strategic, influential, and visionary role within your organization. It’s about using your unique vantage point to shape culture, drive transformation, and deliver business outcomes through people.

This two-and-a-half-day executive programme is designed to help you unlock your full leadership potential and become the trusted advisor, cultural architect, and people strategist your organization needs.

Programme Highlights

🔑 Strategic Partnership

• Gain deep business insight and contribute to strategic decisions
• Confidently challenge and advise senior leaders
• Align people strategy with business imperatives

🔑 Influence Without Authority

• Lead through relationships, trust, and influence
• Coach executives and shape mindsets across functions
• Build credibility and impact without formal power

🔑 Driving Culture and Change

• Take the lead in culture and values
• Manage complex change initiatives—digital, structural, and cultural
• Overcome resistance while keeping people engaged

🔑 Human-Centered Decision Making

• Make high-impact choices that balance ethics and performance
• Prioritize inclusion, talent growth, and well-being
• Champion people as the organization’s most strategic asset

🔑 Personal Leadership

• • Model the behaviors you seek in others
  • Strengthen executive presence and leadership resilience
  • Build a personal roadmap for continuous growth

Who Should Apply

• Senior HR Managers
•  HR Business Partners
• Talent, Culture, and Organisational Development Leaders
• Future CHROs 

If you’re ready to lead not from the sidelines, but from the centre of strategic decision-making, this programme is for you.

About the Organizers

This programme is co-developed by MAX HRM and the VU Leadership Academy of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

With nearly 20 years of experience in HRM, our unique strength lies in our multidisciplinary, evidence-based approach. Beyond leadership science, our programmes incorporate insights from diverse fields, including technology, sustainability, philosophy, business, social sciences, economics, neuroscience, and the humanities, to tackle contemporary leadership challenges.

Together, we prepare HR leaders to meet the challenges of a rapidly evolving workplace.

For enquiries please download the Brochure.