The HRBP Playbook

500+ HRBPs trained across 10+ cohorts. Former HR Business Partner at Wargaming (World of Tanks), iDeals, Preply. 20+ years building HR functions from the inside. 54 downloadable templates inside this book. This system works.

Here's the uncomfortable truth about most HR Business Partners: your business leaders don't see you as a partner. They see you as the person who owns the survey, runs onboarding, and shows up when someone needs to be fired.

You know it because you live it. Your CEO asks the CFO about workforce costs, not you. Your VP of Sales copies you on emails after decisions are made, not before. When you propose an HR initiative, the first question is "how much?" - never "why?" And when budget gets tight, guess which function gets cut first.

When you don't have a seat at the table? Your best people leave. Your managers run on gut feel. Your CEO reads your engagement report once and forgets it. Every HR initiative needs to be defended instead of invested in.

When you do? Business leaders call you before they call anyone else. You shape strategy, not react to it. Your recommendations get approved on the first ask because they come with numbers, not opinions. And when something important needs a person who understands both the people AND the business - that person is you.

This book gives you the exact system I built at Wargaming, refined at iDeals and Preply, and taught to 500+ HRBPs across 10+ cohorts of my course.

Here's what you'll learn:

• The Business Acumen Loop - read a P&L like a CFO, build a business case with NPV and IRR, speak the language your leaders actually use
• The Employee Lifetime Value Framework - calculate which employee segments create the most value, and reallocate HR budget accordingly
• The COMS Activation Model - measure how much of your workforce's potential is actually being delivered, and quantify what you're leaving on the table
• The ECR Playbook - Engagement, Collaboration, Retention as one integrated system with Gallup Q12, Lencioni's dysfunction model, and the 9 proven retention strategies
• The 10 Management Tools every manager needs, with the iDeals Leader Pyramid and Google's Project Oxygen behaviors
• The CES Consulting Methodology - how to run HR projects like McKinsey, with 8-section plans that get signed before work begins
• The Kotter 8-Step Change System - why 70% of change initiatives fail, and the 20-30-50 rule that beats those odds
• The Donkey-Sheep-Fox-Owl negotiation model - your default style under pressure, and how to become an integrative negotiator who wins outcomes without damaging relationships

54 downloadable templates inside: ELV Calculator, HR Business Case with NPV/IRR, Gallup Q12 Survey, 9-Box Grid, CES Consulting Plan, Kotter Change Plan, Negotiation Prep Sheet, HRBP 90-Day Action Plan, AI Prompt Library, and 45 more. Every tool tested through 10+ course cohorts.

A strategic HR consultant costs $30,000+. The HCI HRBP certification costs $3,500. An Ivy League executive program costs $15,000. This book gives you the same system for less than a business lunch.

Every framework tested across 500+ HRBPs. Every tool refined through 10 cohorts. Built from 20 years of doing this work at Wargaming, iDeals, Preply, StarLightMedia, and Alfa-Bank.

Stop being the order-taker. Start being the strategic business partner.