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Leadership hasn’t just broken — it’s outsourced its accountability. HR paid the price. Jim Woods, CEO of Seattle Consulting Group and bestselling author of HR Unchained, created the Woods HR Power Model™ to re-engineer HR into the operating core of the business. Clients include Whirlpool, the U.S. Army, the Government of Canada, MITRE, and Disney. Leadership hasn’t just broken — it has outsourced its accountability. HR paid the price. Most companies are still trying to solve 2025 problems with a 1995 HR playbook. In too many boardrooms, CHROs are hired to lead without power, fix behavior without systems, and take the blame when strategy stalls. For CEOs, this is the hidden execution risk. Without structural authority and enforcement systems, even the best CHRO will fail — and the cost of replacing them is measured in millions. Jim Woods, CEO of Seattle Consulting Group and bestselling author of HR Unchained, created the Woods HR Power Model™ to solve that risk. His enterprise framework re-engineers HR into the operating core of the business — restoring control over execution, enforcement, and results. Seattle Consulting Group works with CEOs who want to protect their CHRO investment, close authority gaps, and end performance drift. And for CHROs, the goal is clear: stop being blamed for cultural breakdowns they didn’t cause, and gain the system-level authority to make execution permanent. While most consultants recycle influence models, Woods builds enforcement systems. Where others promise alignment, he diagnoses authority gaps — and closes them fast. Through tactical intensives, advisory, and executive briefings, his team helps leadership: End the blame cycle by aligning authority with accountability Install structural power where performance depends on it Embed execution systems that survive leadership changes Clients include Whirlpool, the U.S. Army, the Government of Canada, MITRE, and Disney. Woods doesn’t quote Covey. He writes what comes after Ulrich — and delivers it in enforceable enterprise design.