The 6-Month Talent Roadmap Every HR Leader Needs

In this episode of the HR Leaders Podcast, we sit down with Kristin Trecker , Chief People Officer at Visteon Corporation , to unpack what it really takes to build talent at the speed of disruption in a 100-year industry going through a 100-year change. Kristin explains why HR has to stop acting like an order taker and start operating like a product line manager, with a clear roadmap, clear customers, and a clear point of view. She shares how Visteon runs a six month product roadmap and pairs it with a capability and capacity plan, so talent decisions keep pace with the business. Most importantly, she breaks down the cultural shift behind it all, from calibrating performance around impact, to out-rewarding star performers, to rewriting HR’s role entirely, replacing “business partner” with performance coach, and building a team that can debate, challenge, and drive change without politics. 🎓 In this episode, Kristin discusses: Why HR’s job is to improve the business through talent, not “support” it How Visteon runs a six month product roadmap with a parallel talent capability plan The culture shift from performance to impact, and why calibration takes years to get right How to redesign roles using a 2 by 2 by 1 matrix (two outcomes, two metrics, one change) Why “business partner” is out, and HR must become performance coaches who drive real outcomes 🙏‍ Thanks you to our series partner - atlas copilot Meet the AI-native adaptive learning platform that builds the course, teaches the skill, and proves the impact, while work is happening, not weeks later → See Privacy Policy at and California Privacy Notice at .

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The 6-Month Talent Roadmap Every HR Leader Needs is an episode from HR Leaders by Chris Rainey.

This episode is 00:38:33 long.

This episode was published on Dec 16, 2025.

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