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Available Cohorts
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Time: 10:00–11:30 a.m. MT | 12:00–1:30 p.m. ET
Wednesday, January 13, 2027
Time: 10:00–11:30 a.m. MT | 12:00–1:30 p.m. ET
The program is delivered as a six-session live online cohort. Each session is ninety minutes long. The investment is CA$895 per participant. Participants who complete the program receive a Certificate of Completion from Seattle Consulting Group.
Registration is limited to preserve discussion, application, and participant relevance.
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Why This Program Matters Now
HR leaders are often told to become more strategic, but strategy is difficult when HR is still treated as advisory, reactive, or permission-dependent.
In many organizations, HR is expected to support managers, protect employees, reduce risk, preserve fairness, strengthen culture, and advise executives. But when important people decisions are made, HR may still lack clear authority over the standards, process, documentation, escalation, and follow-through required to make those decisions credible.
That is not simply a communication problem. It is an authority problem.
When HR lacks clear decision rights, managers may delay correction, executives may bypass process, documentation may weaken, and employee trust may erode. HR is then left explaining outcomes it did not fully control.
The Authority-Based HR Leadership Program™ helps senior HR leaders define where HR must advise, approve, challenge, escalate, document, and refuse responsibility without appropriate control.
This is HR leadership training for leaders who recognize that influence alone is no longer enough.
What Participants Will Learn
Participants will learn how to identify where HR authority breaks down inside the organization and how to clarify HR decision rights before people issues become cultural, legal, operational, or trust-related failures.
They will learn how to strengthen manager accountability without becoming the cleanup function for avoidant or inconsistent managers. They will also learn how to challenge executive decisions using business language tied to risk, performance, retention, trust, and execution.
The program also addresses documentation discipline, decision consistency, and AI-assisted HR decision-making. Participants learn how to govern AI-assisted HR decisions through appropriate human review, override authority, documentation, and control.
This is HR decision rights and manager accountability training for leaders who need practical authority, not just advisory influence.
Who Should Attend
This program is designed for HR leaders who already carry serious organizational responsibility but need stronger authority, structure, language, and executive backing.
It is especially relevant for HR directors who are expected to influence leaders and strengthen organizational standards. It is also designed for senior HR business partners who support executives, managers, and business units under pressure.
Employee relations leaders will benefit from the focus on escalation standards, documentation discipline, and decision consistency. People and Culture leaders will benefit from the connection between trust, behavior, manager accountability, and leadership execution.
Experienced HR managers will benefit as they move from service delivery into organizational leadership. Organizational development leaders will benefit from the connection between culture, accountability, and execution.
Emerging CHROs will benefit from a stronger enterprise-level operating position and a clearer model for executive credibility.
Program Agenda
Session One: The Permission-Based HR Problem
Session Two: The Authority-Based HR Model™
Session Three: Manager Accountability Architecture
Session Four: Executive Credibility and Enterprise Language
Session Five: Decision Governance, Documentation, and AI Control
Session Six: The CHRO Operating Position
What Participants Receive
Participants receive practical tools and templates they can use immediately inside their organizations. These include the HR Authority Map™, Decision Rights Clarifier™, Manager Accountability Escalation Grid™, Executive Credibility Brief™, Documentation Discipline Checklist™, AI Decision Control Framework™, and Ninety-Day Authority Plan™.
Participants who complete the live cohort receive a Certificate of Completion from Seattle Consulting Group. This certificate confirms completion of a professional development cohort focused on HR authority, decision rights, manager accountability, executive credibility, documentation discipline, and AI-era decision control.
Program Details
The Authority-Based HR Leadership Program™ is offered as a six-session live online cohort. Each session is ninety minutes long and is designed for instruction, discussion, application, and practical implementation.
The program category is HR Leadership Training. The investment is CA$895 per participant. Participants who complete the program receive a Certificate of Completion from Seattle Consulting Group.
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Time: 10:00–11:30 a.m. MT | 12:00–1:30 p.m. ET
Wednesday, January 13, 2027
Time: 10:00–11:30 a.m. MT | 12:00–1:30 p.m. ET
Registration is limited to preserve discussion, application, and participant relevance.
Attendance Guarantee
If you attend the first session and do not believe the program is relevant to your HR leadership responsibilities, Seattle Consulting Group will refund your registration fee.
This guarantee applies after live attendance at the first session.
Why Leaders Trust Seattle Consulting Group
Seattle Consulting Group is led by Jim Woods, CEO and President of Seattle Consulting Group, author of HR Unchained, architect of the Authority-Based HR Model™, and creator of the Woods HR Power Model™.
Jim brings more than three decades of experience helping leaders, managers, HR professionals, and organizations address the workplace issues that shape performance, trust, accountability, and culture.
His work spans human resources, organizational development, leadership development, manager accountability, employee relations, workplace performance, people decision-making, and practical workplace training.
Jim has supported leaders, managers, HR professionals, and frontline teams across corporate, government, military, education, and public-sector environments, including Fortune 500 and national organizations.
He holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Development and Human Resources. His work focuses on practical leadership systems, clearer decision rights, stronger manager accountability, and more credible people practices.
Seattle Consulting Group’s training is not built around slogans or abstract theory. It is built for the real workplace moments where expectations are clarified, standards are applied, decisions are documented, managers are held accountable, and organizational trust is either strengthened or weakened.
The Core Idea
HR cannot be held accountable for culture, trust, fairness, risk, manager behavior, and employee experience while remaining dependent on permission from the same leadership system it is expected to improve.
The future of HR leadership is not more influence without authority. It is clearer authority, stronger decision rights, better manager accountability, and more disciplined execution.
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