768: Evolving from Business Partner to Value Creator, with JP Elliott
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
JP Elliott: Future of HR
JP Elliott has decades of experience as a Talent and HR executive at companies like DICK’S Sporting Goods, McAfee, and Lenovo. He’s seen the challenges HR professionals face in growing their careers and increasing their impact. He is the host of the Future of HR podcast and on a mission to help HR professionals increase their business impact and accelerate their careers.
Leadership looks a little different if you head up a support role: human resources, IT, marketing, or finance. Often, we hear the term “business partner” used to describe what these leaders should be aiming for. In this conversation, JP and I explore how to shift from simply a “business partner” to a value creator.
Key Points
- You’re not just an HR leader. You’re a business leader with HR expertise.
- Think like a CEO even if you’re in HR. Do this to be moving beyond an execution-only mindset.
- Design talent strategies based on the future, not on the past.
- Build systems that reward outcomes, not bureaucracy.
- Build talent strategies that differentiate your business.
- Forecast leadership needs 3-5 years out and build a pipeline for critical roles.
Four questions that CEOs are asking:
- Are we focused on the right strategic imperatives?
- Are we operating effectively and efficiently?
- Are we optimizing our business model to create competitive advantage?
- Do we have a plan for sustainable and profitable growth?
Resources Mentioned
- Future of HR podcast by JP Elliott
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| 0:00.0 | Leadership looks a little different if you head up a support role, human resources, IT, marketing, or finance. |
| 0:07.4 | Often we hear the term business partner used to describe what these leaders should be aiming for. |
| 0:13.3 | In this episode, how to shift from simply a business partner to a value creator. |
| 0:19.5 | This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 768. |
| 0:23.7 | Produced by Innovate Learning, maximizing human potential. |
| 0:31.8 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is Coaching for Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac. Leaders |
| 0:40.1 | Aren't Born. They're made. And this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through |
| 0:45.2 | insightful conversations. A regular conversation that I have with leaders, especially leaders who |
| 0:52.4 | are in a bit more of a support role. Perhaps they're |
| 0:55.8 | an HR executive or an IT executive or a marketing executive is being able to make the shift |
| 1:02.9 | from business partner to value creator. How do I really show up and be a strategic partner for |
| 1:09.5 | the organization in a way that goes way beyond |
| 1:12.4 | execution and goes into thinking about the future. Today, a conversation on how to do that well, |
| 1:18.9 | whether that's you or perhaps someone you're supporting. And I'm so pleased to welcome J.P. |
| 1:23.8 | Elliott to the show. JP has decades of experience as a talent and HR executive at companies like Dick Sporting |
| 1:29.5 | Goods, McCaffee, and Lenovo. |
| 1:31.9 | He's seen the challenges HR professionals face in growing their careers and increasing their |
| 1:36.6 | impact. |
| 1:37.4 | He is the host of the future of HR podcast and on a mission to help HR professionals increase |
| 1:43.6 | their business impact and accelerate their careers. JP, a mission to help HR professionals increase their business impact and accelerate their |
| 1:46.1 | careers. J.P., a pleasure to see you again. Welcome to the show. Thanks, Dave. I'm excited to be here. |
| 1:52.8 | I am so thankful for your work because so much of what you are doing is inviting leaders, especially leaders as I mentioned in the |
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