It’s a great time to be CHRO, as the people impact gap is the corporate performance gap. Many HR teams have hit a wall because their value is seen largely in managing cost and risk, not productivity, effectiveness and impact. Some CHRO’s are breaking out, and taking their teams beyond the silo’ed specialties and systems into a world where systemic problems are solved by business-first HR teams. These leaders are leveraging People Analytics to help people outside of HR make better decisions. There are plenty of things a CHRO can borrow from the CFO playbook, impacts revenue growth, retains critical talent, improves diversity and overcomes the obstacles to a data-driven HR team.