About
The HR Models Library is a working reference: the frameworks a people leader actually reaches for, each with a plain description, a use-when trigger, the parts, and the watch-outs that matter in practice. Alongside the models sit end-to-end HR workflows with RACI, SLAs and stress tests.
Models are lenses. Every framework simplifies, and when the model and the evidence disagree, believe the evidence. Diagnosis comes before intervention.
Models in this library are professional knowledge. Copyright protects expression rather than ideas or methods: every model here is described in my own words, with its originator named. Model names that are registered trademarks of third parties, including ADKAR (Prosci), SCARF (NeuroLeadership Institute) and Radical Candor, are used descriptively to identify the models they name; no affiliation or endorsement is claimed. Proprietary instruments, including the Gallup Q12 and the OCAI, are described but never reproduced. The selection, structure, use-when guidance, watch-outs and original mechanisms are the intellectual property of Harsimran Kaur Kapoor. See Trademarks and attribution for the marks referenced here and their owners.
Who made this
This library is mostly an aggregator, and says so. The models were developed by the people credited on each card. The work here is choosing which ones earn their place, writing each in plain language, saying when to reach for it, and saying where it breaks. Sixty-three models, curated down from a much longer list, because a shorter list you trust beats a longer one you scroll. A few are mine, marked ORIGINAL, and credited the same way as everyone else's.
I am Harsimran Kaur Kapoor, CPHR, MBA. Fifteen years in HR across global financial services and technology, most of it as a people business partner to senior leaders through restructures, acquisitions and rapid scaling. This is the reference I wanted on my own phone.
Written and published by Harsimran Kaur Kapoor, CPHR, MBA. Contact: hello@hrmodelslibrary.com
Published July 2026. Last updated July 2026.