Commercial CPO Programme
For Chief People Officers (CPOs), Human Resource Directors (HRDs) and Senior HR Professionals who know their people strategy is right and are ready to prove it.
Next Course begins on 20th May 2026
Next Course begins on 20th May 2026
Find Your Voice.
Take Your Seat.
Own Your Space.
You’re already good at your job.
The board just doesn’t always know it.
You know people. It’s what you do and you do it well. But knowing your stuff and being heard as a commercial equal? Those are two very different things and nobody tells you how to the bridge the gap.
You feel exposed when asked to commercially justify your latest people initiative, unsure how to translate your people expertise into business language.
INTRODUCTION
A programme for CPOs and HRDs who are ready to become the commercial force their business can’t ignore.
You have the seat, the expertise and the vision and feel it’s time for the business to sit up and take notice.
THE PROBLEM
You’re in the room. This programme gives you the voice to go with it.
You’re senior enough to be in the room. You’re experienced enough to know what the business needs. And yet, when the finance update lands, when the CFO starts talking numbers and when the board wants commercial justification there is a moment. A flicker of anxiety that nobody else can see but you feel every time.
It’s not imposter syndrome. It’s a gap. A very fixable gap between your people expertise and the commercial language the board speaks fluently.
You already know what the business needs. This is about making sure the business knows you know it.
THE THREE PILLARS
Three pillars. One transformation. Zero jargon
Each pillar builds on the last, moving you from great people expert to essential commercial force.
Pillar One
Find Your Voice
The finance language, business case frameworks and storytelling tools to make your people strategy impossible to ignore.
Pillar Two
Take Your Seat
The strategic presence, budget ownership mindset and business thinking to operate as a genuine business leader.
Pillar Three
Own Your Space
Evidence-led leadership, influencing at scale and a voice that doesn’t just get heard, it gets acted on.
WHAT CHANGES?
You'll leave this programme as a different kind of leader
You'll walk into board meetings without the anxiety. Fluent in the numbers, confident in the conversation.
You'll have a commercial narrative that connects your people strategy directly to business outcomes — in language the CFO respects.
You'll operate as a strategic peer, not just the HR voice in the room. Sought out for commercial input. Not just people decisions.
You'll know how to build a business case that gets funded, not just heard.
You'll have a 90-day plan you can act on the moment you leave.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Everything you need to show up commercially confident
6 live cohort sessions across the three pillars
Finance Decoder for HR
Business case toolkit with frameworks and templates
Peer group access with a curated senior cohort
1:1 commercial strategy call with Jo
Your personalised 90 day action plan
Access to online community resources for one year
SOCIAL PROOF
‘I’ve known Jo for a couple of years and have to say she‘s the best management accounting and financial analysis expert I’ve come across in a long time.
Her ability to truly connect with people stands Jo apart from many in her field and her supportive and non-judgemental approach is reassuring and refreshing in equal measure. I’d highly recommend Jo to any HR pro or business leader/owner seeking to develop their commercial reasoning (aka storytelling) skills. Even as an experienced HRD and business owner, I have learnt loads from her. A true asset to have by your side both professionally and personally – and I’m glad to have Jo by mine’ - HR Consultant
CALL TO ACTION
Find Your Voice.
Take Your Seat.
Own Your Space.
This is the founding cohort of the Commercial CPO Programme. It’s a small, deliberately curated group who will shape the programme as much as the programme shapes them.
As a founding cohort member you get direct access, a lower investment than future cohorts and the quiet satisfaction of being the ones who got there first. Places are limited and won’t be offered at this level again.
