About SHCP

Integrity is not just a value; it’s the cornerstone of everything we do. We believe in conducting ourselves with unwavering honesty, transparency, and ethical behavior in all aspects of our business. Our commitment to integrity guides our decisions, actions, and interactions with clients, partners, and colleagues. 

We hold ourselves accountable to the highest standards of integrity, ensuring that trust and credibility are the foundation of every relationship. With integrity as our guiding principle, we build lasting partnerships, earn respect, and consistently deliver exceptional results for our clients.

We uphold the value of accountability as a fundamental pillar of our culture. We take ownership of our actions, decisions, and outcomes, holding ourselves to the highest standards of responsibility and transparency. By embracing accountability, we foster trust and credibility with our clients, partners, and colleagues. 

We recognize that accountability is not just about acknowledging mistakes but also about taking proactive steps to learn, grow, and continuously improve. At SHCP, we are committed to accountability at every level of our organization, ensuring that we consistently deliver excellence and uphold the trust placed in us.

We believe trust is the bedrock of our relationships—both internally and externally. It is earned through consistent actions, transparency, and reliability. We are dedicated to fostering trust by honoring our commitments, maintaining open communication, and delivering on our promises. 

Trust is the foundation upon which we build strong partnerships with our clients, empowering us to understand their needs deeply and collaborate effectively to achieve shared goals. Internally, we cultivate an environment of trust where every team member feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their best. 

At SHCP, we know that trust is not given; it’s earned. Thus, we strive to earn it every day through our actions, integrity, and dedication to excellence.

We embody the value of tenacity as a driving force behind our pursuit of excellence. We are relentless in our determination to overcome challenges, achieve goals, and deliver exceptional results for our clients. With unwavering perseverance and resilience, we tackle obstacles head-on, pushing the boundaries of what is possible. 

Our tenacity fuels our innovation, inspires our creativity, and fuels our commitment to continuous improvement. We embrace adversity as an opportunity for growth and learning, never backing down from a challenge. At SHCP, we believe that with tenacity, anything is possible, and we harness this spirit to drive success for ourselves and our clients.

We believe precision is not merely a standard; it’s our commitment to excellence in everything we do. We strive for accuracy, attention to detail, and meticulousness in every task, ensuring our work is of the highest quality. Precision is the hallmark of our craftsmanship, guiding our processes and decisions to deliver results that exceed expectations. 

We understand that even the smallest details matter, and we approach every project with a focus on perfection. Our dedication to precision instills confidence in our clients, reassuring them that their needs will be met with the utmost care and exactitude. At SHCP, precision is not just a value—it’s our promise of exceptional quality and reliability.

We celebrate the value of multiplicity as a source of strength and innovation. We embrace diversity in all its forms—diverse perspectives, backgrounds, experiences, and ideas. We believe that by fostering a culture of multiplicity, we unlock endless possibilities for creativity, collaboration, and growth. 

Our commitment to multiplicity fuels our ability to adapt, evolve, and thrive in a rapidly changing world. We recognize that the richness of our differences makes us stronger as a team and enables us to serve our clients better. At SHCP, we champion multiplicity as a core value, driving us to create inclusive environments where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their unique talents.

Eric S. Blaylock is the Founder and Managing Partner of Strategic Human Capital Partners (SHCP), a boutique consulting firm that delivers business advisory, organizational transformation, and technology outcomes for commercial and government clients. He built the firm on a conviction shaped by two decades of transformation work: that organizations succeed or fail on how well they align their people, operating model, and technology — and that artificial intelligence is now reshaping all three at once. SHCP exists to help leaders navigate that shift, turning AI from hype into measurable human capital and workforce results.

Eric’s career spans more than two decades at the intersection of strategy, human capital, and technology, advising CEOs, CHROs, and boards through the transitions where people, process, and technology must align. Under his leadership, SHCP helps commercial, federal, and local-government clients modernize how work gets done — spanning human capital and workforce strategy, organizational effectiveness, HR technology and process modernization, and the change leadership that makes transformation stick. Increasingly, that work runs through AI: AI readiness and strategy, intelligent talent solutions, HR process automation, people analytics, and responsible AI governance.

What distinguishes Eric’s advisory is firsthand experience at the frontier of enterprise AI. Alongside his client work, he has helped design realistic simulations used to train and evaluate advanced AI agents on the kind of complex, multi-workstream consulting work executives face every day. That vantage point gives SHCP clients an unusually grounded view of where AI genuinely creates value — and where it still falls short.

Prior to founding SHCP, Eric served as Digital Enterprise Transformation Lead Business Consultant for North America at Tata Consultancy Services and delivered human capital technology solutions to some of the world’s largest financial services organizations as a senior HCM Technology Solution Executive at Microsoft. He has held senior consulting roles at Accenture, IBM, and Booz Allen Hamilton, and served as a Board Director and Governance Committee Chair at Greater Greater Washington.

A proud U.S. Air Force veteran (TACP, 25th Air Support Operations Squadron), Eric earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee, a graduate certificate in organizational leadership from Johns Hopkins University, and an executive certificate in corporate governance from The Wharton School. He lives in Washington, DC.