15 years of waiting or 10 weeks of deliberate positioning.
You have built the experience. You have demonstrated the competence. Now it is time to build the positioning, the language, and the visible candidacy that earns you the CHRO title. CAP is built to take you there — deliberately, in 10 weeks.
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You are ready for more. You know it. We see it.
After years in HR — running teams, managing talent, building culture — you have earned the right to the next level. You have the depth, the judgment, and the commitment that CHRO roles demand. The question is not whether you are capable. The question is whether the right people can see that you are ready.
The professionals who get appointed CHRO are not always the most experienced. They are the most visibly, credibly positioned at the moment the decision is made.
If any of the questions on the right spark something in you, you are exactly who CAP is built for.
Are these questions alive for you right now?
- →You have 12+ years of strong HR experience — and you know the CHRO role is the natural next step. Are you actively building toward it, or waiting for it to happen?
- →When you sit in CEO or board-level conversations, do you walk out feeling like your voice carried the same weight as the business leaders in the room?
- →If a senior executive search firm looked at your LinkedIn today, would your profile position you as a CHRO candidate — or as an experienced HR manager?
- →AI is reshaping the CHRO role faster than most people realise. Are you positioned to lead that agenda — or still figuring out where to start?
- →When a CHRO vacancy opens in your industry network, is your name among the first that people think of — and say out loud?
India is creating 1,500–3,000 CHRO vacancies every year. Most go to outsiders.
Here is what the data actually says — and what it means for your career right now.
The vacancies are real. The timing is right. Is this your moment to step forward?
See the scale of what you are building toward.
The earnings difference between your current trajectory and a CHRO-level career path is significant — and it compounds with every passing year. Use this calculator to see what that opportunity looks like for your specific situation. Most people find the number far larger than they expected.
The Career Advancement Program
CAP is a practitioner-led, cohort-based live programme — built for senior HR professionals who are done waiting and ready to close the final gap to the CHRO role.
It will not give you more HR knowledge. You already have that. CAP gives you the positioning, the language, the presence, and a personal 12-month roadmap — so the next CHRO vacancy in your orbit does not go to someone from outside.
“In 20 years of working alongside CHROs and their successors, one pattern stands out: the professionals who get the title are not always the most experienced in the room — they are the ones who made their readiness unmistakably visible. That is a skill. And it can be built.”
— Dr. Raj, Founder, HR Footprints Group
- Format
- Live weekly sessions, 120 min each
- Sessions
- 8 content sessions + Masterclass kickoff + Capstone showcase
- Coaching
- One 30-min personal session with Dr. Raj
- Guest Faculty
- Sitting/former CHROs and search leaders — integrated into sessions
- Portal
- AI-enabled career planning tool + recordings + resources (3 months access)
- Post-programme
- 90-day check-in + Alumni network lifetime access
- Certificate
- HR Footprints CAP verified completion certificate
Ten sessions. One direction. The CHRO seat.
Every session is live, applied to your own career situation, and builds on the one before. This is not a lecture series — it is a structured positioning workshop.
The identity shift that must happen before anyone else shifts their perception of you.
Translating every HR initiative into P&L, risk, and strategic impact — fluently.
Building people strategy that anticipates business cycles and survives a change of CEO.
Executive presence: the invisible criterion that separates CHRO appointments. How to demonstrate it.
Building the relationship, trust, and strategic relevance that makes you indispensable at the C-suite table.
What boards look for when they evaluate whether the CHRO is “one of us.” Real dilemmas from the room.
Leading the AI and people analytics strategy — not managing the adoption. What boards are asking for now.
LinkedIn, executive visibility, executive search — your candidacy starts now, not when a vacancy opens.
Built live, guided by faculty. Specific 90-day, 6-month, and 12-month milestones for your exact situation.
Understanding organisational needs and aligning people priorities with the business agenda.
Capstone Presentation — Your CHRO Narrative to the Room
Present your CHRO narrative and 12-month advancement plan to faculty and peers. Receive structured feedback. Complete certification. This is the moment the programme has been building toward.
Seats in each cohort are deliberately limited. Once confirmed participants are in, the session dynamics are fixed. We do not add seats.
Reserve My SeatEight assets. Not certificates.
Every participant walks away with these eight concrete, usable outputs — documents and frameworks you will apply the week after the programme ends. Not insights that fade.
Your CHRO Readiness Map
A personalised gap assessment — where you are strong, where you need to build, where you need to be visible. Your starting benchmark.
Business Acumen Framework
A reusable framework for framing any HR initiative in P&L language. Apply it in your next leadership conversation.
Recorded Presentation with Feedback
A real record of your executive presence with structured, honest feedback from faculty and peers. Most people have never had this.
Your CHRO Narrative
A crafted, practised 90-second positioning statement — why you are CHRO-ready. Built and refined through the programme.
LinkedIn Overhaul Plan
A specific action plan so your profile and activity signal CHRO candidacy — not your current role. Visible before the vacancy opens.
AI-Enabled Career Planning Tool Access
A personal, time-bound advancement plan built using our AI-enabled portal. Available for 6 months after programme completion.
A Curated Peer Network
Access to senior HR peers at the same inflection point — who will refer, recommend, and support you well beyond the programme.
HR Footprints CAP Certification
A verified completion certificate from a 20-year firm trusted by 500+ organisations — a signal of seriousness, not attendance.
The full programme — 1-on-1 coaching, guest CHROs, AI tool access, alumni network, and your personal 12-month roadmap — for less than the value of one month's salary increment at CHRO level. Is this the investment that changes your trajectory?
See PricingPractitioner-led. Not a theory program.
Dr. Raj brings the unvarnished perspective of someone who has seen exactly what separates CHRO-ready professionals from those who wait indefinitely for a title that never arrives.
Dr. Raj Gandrapu
Founder & Principal, HR Footprints Group · Executive Coach · Author, Productive Leadership
Close to four decades of experience spanning business leadership, HR consulting, executive coaching, academia, and applied research. As Founder of HR Footprints Group — which has served 500+ client organisations across India — Dr. Raj has built CHRO-level assessment centres, 360° feedback processes, and leadership coaching engagements at the highest levels.
He has sat across the table from sitting CHROs, Management Committees, and Board Members: coaching them, assessing them, and building their successors. He is the author of three books including Productive Leadership, which introduces the FLEX Leadership Framework.
Guest Faculty — CHROs & Search Leaders
Two sessions feature sitting and former CHROs, executive search leaders, and board advisers — integrated into the programme sessions, not as a separate track. Guest faculty confirmed cohort-by-cohort and announced to enrolled participants in advance.
From people who have worked with Dr. Raj.
Feedback from HR Footprints coaching, leadership assessment, and executive development engagements across 20+ years.
Dr. Raj has an unusual ability to ask the question you have been avoiding asking yourself. In one session he reframed how I was thinking about my own leadership positioning — something I had not been able to do in years of reflection on my own.
The assessment process was rigorous and honest. What I appreciated most was that the feedback was not generic — it was specific to my situation, my gaps, and what I needed to do differently. That kind of directness is rare.
Working with HR Footprints gave me a perspective I could not have built alone — what CHROs actually look like from the outside, from someone who has sat across from them, assessed them, and built their successors. That vantage point is invaluable.
Names withheld at participants' request. Full references available on enquiry.
The pre-book window closes October 5th. Once the cohort confirms, pricing moves to ₹38,500.
Pre-book NowThree ways to enrol. One complete programme.
All tracks include the full CAP experience — 10 weeks of engagement, 8 live sessions, 1-on-1 coaching, 3 months portal access, and post-programme support. Pricing reflects when you commit, not what you receive.
Balance of ₹25,000 due on cohort confirmation. Full refund if the cohort does not confirm. This is the only time CAP will ever be available at this price.
Full payment at enrollment. No token required. Available until 21 days before cohort start. EMI options available.
Standard enrollment or corporate-nominated participant. Tax invoice provided for training budget. Instalment: 50% at enrollment, 50% on Day 1. EMI options available.
- +GST applicable on all amounts above.
- Balance of ₹25,000 on the Pre-Book track is due once the cohort confirms — full refund if the cohort never confirms.
Group Booking — Additional 10% off
Three or more individuals registering together (same or different employers) receive an additional 10% off on any track. Write to us at programs@hrfootprints.com with names to apply.
Refund Policy: Full refund before cohort confirmation · 50% refund before first live session · No refund once the programme has started · +GST on all amounts
Start with the Free Masterclass.
Experience Dr. Raj's thinking live. Walk away with a clear picture of where you stand on the CHRO readiness spectrum — and what to do about it. No cost. No obligation. If it resonates, the next step is yours to take.
- →Where you actually stand on the CHRO readiness spectrum
- →The three things that most reliably predict CHRO appointment
- →What you can do — right now, this week — to close the gap
No cost. No obligation. Dates confirmed by email.
Questions answered honestly.
If you are on the fence, one of these questions probably holds the answer.
CAP is not designed to give you more HR knowledge. You already have that. CAP is built to help you repackage, reframe, and present what you already know in the language, presence, and visibility that CHRO selection decisions are actually based on. The gap most senior HR professionals have is not expertise — it is positioning. That is what CAP addresses.
No. CAP is a live, facilitated, cohort-based programme with a deliberately small group. Every session has peer interaction, structured application tasks you submit between sessions, and direct faculty feedback. You also get a personal 1-on-1 session with Dr. Raj, a recorded presentation with feedback, and a capstone presentation to the cohort. The format is designed to produce outputs — not just insights.
No — and we will never make that claim. CAP improves your readiness and positioning, not your outcomes. What we can say — based on our 20 years of working alongside CHROs — is that the professionals who are visibly, specifically prepared are the ones who get chosen when vacancies open. CAP builds that preparation. The rest depends on your market, your timing, and your effort after the programme.
Yes. We provide a formal tax invoice for training budget purposes. Corporate nominations at the Regular price (₹55,000 + GST) are welcome, and group bookings of 3+ receive an additional 10% off. Write to programs@hrfootprints.com with the subject "Corporate Nomination" and we will send you the documentation needed for internal approval.
Every live session is recorded and available on the portal within 24 hours. You can watch the recording and submit your application task on time. We do ask participants to attend at least 7 of the 10 sessions live — the peer interaction and real-time discussion are core to the programme's value, not optional extras.
The founding cohort pre-book price (₹27,500 — 50% off regular) is available only until the cohort confirms. Once 15 pre-bookings are received, the cohort confirms and pricing moves to Early Bird (₹38,500). October 5th is the hard deadline for the token. After that, you can still enrol at Early Bird until November 1st — but the founding price is permanently closed.
The next CHRO vacancy in your orbit could be yours. Are you ready to make that case?
You have spent years building the experience, the judgment, and the leadership instincts that the CHRO role demands. CAP gives you the positioning, the narrative, and the visible candidacy to make your readiness unmistakable — to the people who need to see it most. Ten weeks. One clear direction.
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Next Batch: November 2026 · HR Footprints Group, Nizampet, Hyderabad 500090
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