Navigating Leadership Challenges: The Role of CPOs in Business

The CPO is the person everyone in the business turns to with hard people problems.

The ExCo dynamic that isn't working, cultural drift, the redundancy programme, the leadership team that needs reshaping. It's a job that absorbs an extraordinary amount of other people's difficulty.

And it's a job that, almost by design, has nowhere to take its own challenges.

You can't easily bring your hardest concerns to your team because they're often the subject. You can't always take them to your CEO — they may be the subject. Talking to peers in other businesses means compromising confidentiality, optics, and networks.

This is one of the reasons we partner with Liz Jewitt-Cross FCIPD.

Liz works as a mentor and coach to senior HR leaders and CPOs through The Coaching Solution. She's held the seat and she offers the one thing the job rarely provides for itself — a confidential space to think clearly, with someone who genuinely understands what's being navigated.

It's a unique fix for a structural loneliness.

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