THE CHRO TABLE
Candid conversations about the decisions CHROs are making now.
An online Executive Forum, held every two months, for the senior-most executives responsible for their organization's people strategy.
Peer-level by invitation.
Next Executive Forum:
Wednesday, December 9, 2026 at 11:00 am ET
A room gives you access.
A table gives you a voice.
The CHRO Table brings CHROs together every two months for a focused, candid conversation about one consequential people decision. Each Executive Forum starts with timely insight, then transitions into peer perspectives.
This isn't an HR webinar. You'll sit with peers who are working through the same decisions you are.
Insight worth discussing.
Each forum opens with objective insights: research, field data, or client observations that frame the decision.
Peers who get it.
The people around the table share your responsibility.
A decision, not a lecture.
Every conversation centers on a timely choice CHROs are facing right now.
NEXT AT THE CHRO TABLE
Your Q1 promotion cycle is coming. A group of your best individual contributors is about to move into their first management roles, and right now, the only evidence you have is that they’re good at the job they already have, not that they’re ready to manage people.
So here’s the question on the table:
Is your next manager actually ready to manage, or just high-performing in the role they’re already in?
Christopher R. Jones opens with the pattern he sees most often across client organizations: performance and management readiness get treated as the same thing, when they rarely are. From there, the conversation continues “at the table.”
What we’ll discuss:
- How to tell the difference between a high-performing individual contributor and someone who’s actually ready to manage people
- A three-step process for building real evidence of readiness: establish the baseline, close the gaps, validate the decision
- What to do with the 90 days before the promotion is final, so readiness gets built, not assumed
- How your peers are approaching this same decision for their own Q1 promotions
This isn’t a promise that every candidate becomes promotion-ready in 90 days. It’s a practical process for building the evidence behind the decision, instead of relying on performance as a stand-in for it.
EXECUTIVE FORUM
Ready to Manage, or Just High-Performing?
A 3-Step Plan to Build the Evidence Before Your Q1 Promotion Decisions
WHEN:Â Wednesday, December 9, 2026
TIME:Â 11:00 am ET, 60 minutes
WHERE: Online (Zoom Invite)
COST:Â Complimentary for invited participants
SEATS:Â Intentionally limited
Request a SeatCome prepared to engage.
Small by design.
Seats are intentionally limited so everyone has room to speak.
Facilitated, not presented.
Christopher brings objective insights and guides the conversation. You bring your experience.
Cameras on.
It's a conversation between peers, so we'd like to see each other.
Candid by design.
It's a peer conversation, so come ready to speak openly.
Reserved for the executives who own people strategy.
The CHRO Table is for the senior-most executives responsible for their organization's people strategy, including CHROs and Chief People Officers. Titles vary, but the responsibility doesn't.
Seats are by invitation.
Request a seat, and we'll let you know if the next table is a fit.
Your Host
Christopher R Jones
Founder, Authentic Leader™
Christopher has spent more than 30 years helping organizations turn high-performing individual contributors into leaders of high-performing teams. He has worked with Fortune 500 companies, mid-sized organizations, and professional associations across the United States, Europe, and Brazil.
His perspective comes from the front lines. Every year, he works directly with hundreds of new and developing managers, and he hears what they need that most organizations never ask about.
At The CHRO Table, he brings objective insights to the conversation. You and your peers decide what it means.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Request Your Seat
Tell us a little about you and your organization.
Seats for The CHRO Table Executive Forum are limited.
The last question asks:Â What is the No. 1 metric your organization uses to evaluate the success of a leadership development program? (If you're not sure, just say "not sure.")
We'll confirm by email within 2 business days.
