CHROs Now Face Complex and Difficult Realities

In this podcast I describe our newest CHRO Insights research (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...) , based on 25,000 CHRO profiles and detailed analysis of their job history by Findem (https://www.findem.ai/) . What you see is that CHRO tenure has dropped by 20% in the last five years, the role is still primarily held by women, and the pay levels of CHROs have not kept pace with the pay of other C-level officers.



Despite these challenges, the scope, role, and importance of the CHRO has rapidly increased, leaving many CHROs to take on roles a Chief Transformation Officers, Chief Strategy Officers, and even Chief AI Enablement Officers. And the career path to CHRO and from CHRO is changing.



Listen here to understand more. You can download the overview here (https://joshbersin.com/chro-paradox/) .



You can get access to the detailed research by licensing Galileo, the essential AI Agent for HR (https://getgalileo.ai) , or by joining our corporate membership (https://joshbersin.com/about-2/) .



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Additional Information



Josh Bersin Company Launches Research and Advisory Service for CHROs, a Role Under Increasing Pressure (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...)



Understanding the Path to CHRO (research report) (https://joshbersin.com/chro/)



The Pivotal Role Of Chief HR Officer in AI Transformation (https://joshbersin.com/2025/10/the-pi...)