QiHR Simulation
You're now part of QiHR. 30 days. No excuses.
Step inside QiHR: new ownership, a strategy that demands transformation, and an HR team with no room to fail. You're on that team now.
The problem?
HR isn't ready.
QiHR is a cloud HR software company — San Francisco headquarters, development centres in Serbia and Mexico. New investors just bought it, and they arrived with a clear agenda: new markets, new revenue, new levels of performance.
HR isn't ready. Performance reviews happen once a year, in Excel. The leadership programme hasn't been updated in seven years. Developers are underpaid, overworked, and leaving fast. There's no employer brand worth the name — no HR OKRs, no work management system, no service model. Just people doing everything, with no plan for anything.
The new owners have given HR exactly 30 days to present a full transformation strategy. You're on that team now.
Not a workshop.
A mission.
A business simulation where you stop spectating HR transformation and start running one. Alongside a cross-industry team of HR professionals, you'll co-design QiHR's complete operating model: objectives, initiative portfolio, work management, key results, process redesign. The same sequence real transformations use. Under real pressure. Against a real deadline.
You leave with a framework you built yourself — and the clarity to run it at your own company.
Strategic moves completed in one day
Years of combined HR transformation experience guiding you
Strategy delivered — yours, for QiHR and beyond
Six moves.
One complete transformation.
Each move is a strategic step. Together they form a full HR operating system — from diagnosis to execution.
Move 01
HR Framework
Strategic HR Framework Analysis
Before you build, you have to be honest. You'll map every HR activity into strategic clusters, weigh them against QiHR's new business goals, and pressure-test the team's real capacity to deliver. The gap is bigger than anyone has admitted. You'll run the same diagnostic on your own function and leave with a benchmark.
Move 02
OKRs
Setting Objectives with OKRs
Great HR strategy isn't a list of programmes. It's a set of commitments tied to what the business is trying to achieve. You'll learn to set objectives leadership actually cares about — and can hold you to. Effort without direction is just activity.
Move 03
Portfolio
Building the Initiative Portfolio
Objectives are only as strong as the plan behind them. You'll identify every initiative, project and action that moves QiHR's HR function from where it is to where it needs to be — structured into a living portfolio that can be managed, adjusted and tracked.
Move 04
Kanban
Work Management for HR Teams
This is where the system becomes operational. You'll run the whole portfolio with Kanban: design the board, set WIP limits, structure the weekly stand-up, write a proper card, and hold a retrospective that actually changes how you work. A method, not a philosophy.
Move 05
Measurement
Defining Key Results
The piece that makes strategy honest. You'll define the metrics and targets that prove the work is producing outcomes, and set the review cadence that keeps the system accountable. No vanity metrics. No vague targets. Clear signals of real progress.
Move 06
Online Follow-up
Lean Tools for HR Productivity
A two-hour online session a few weeks later. You'll find the waste in HR processes, map the workflows, and use lean problem-solving to build a faster, lighter function. The operational edge that separates high-performing HR teams from the rest.
Not for observers.
For builders.
The most valuable thing in the room is who else is in it. Participants come from different industries, organisations and HR backgrounds. That diversity is the methodology — the best strategies come from collisions between people who would never normally share a meeting.
You're an HR leader who knows the function needs to move faster — but you haven't had a structured way to redesign it.
You're an HR business partner or specialist who wants to see how transformation actually works in practice, not in theory.
You're building an HR function inside a fast-moving company, and you need a strategy framework that can keep up.
Skills that work
on Thursday.
A complete HR strategy framework
The exact structure used in QiHR, ready to adapt for your own organisation from day one.
OKR fluency
Not the theory. The ability to write OKRs that connect HR activity to business outcomes — and defend them in front of a leadership team.
A working Kanban system
You'll have built and run one during the simulation, so you know exactly how to set it up when you get back to your desk.
A portfolio management mindset
How to treat HR work as a portfolio of strategic bets, not a backlog of tasks.
Lean process tools
Practical frameworks for finding inefficiency and redesigning how your team actually works.
A new professional network
Cross-industry peers who've been through the same pressure cooker. These relationships tend to last.
When you start a transformation, it will feel worse before it feels better. Problems and tensions become more visible — and that can be uncomfortable. But when they're visible, you finally have a real chance to solve them.
Jordan Husney — CEO at Parabol
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