The IHCP 2025 Human Capital Advisory Benchmark Report

Evolving Talent, Capability, and Consulting - from the Inside Out

Transformation is no longer episodic. It is now a continuous operating condition and one that demands more than strategy decks and external consultants. Organizations today face a dual challenge: lead change from within, while reducing reliance on outside advisory spend.

Yet most organizations are underprepared. They ask functional teams to take on strategic responsibilities, guiding change, enabling capability, and aligning people to enterprise priorities but fail to provide the identity scaffolding, development structure, or compensation strategy to support it.

This is not a soft issue. It is a structural one. And it is costing organizations speed, alignment, and credibility.

The IHCP 2025 Human Capital Advisory Benchmark Report is the first of its kind to benchmark this shift. It focuses not on general workforce trends or high-level consulting theory, but on the lived transition of professionals operating in HR, learning, operations, and delivery roles who are increasingly expected to act as internal advisors without the title or support.

This report makes the invisible work of human capital consulting visible and shows organizations how to scale it.

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