Founding Season · Opens January 1, 2027
Where HR leaders turn people strategy into executive action.
Joey’s HR Lounge is being rebuilt as a coordinated founding experience for senior HR leaders: one carefully selected group, a 90-day Strategic HR Influence Lab, and a peer circle that continues all year. Everyone enters together on January 1.
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A note from Joey
We stopped selling access to an empty room.
A community with no members cannot sell “access to the community.” It has to offer a structured transformation that creates the community. So Joey’s HR Lounge is being rebuilt from the ground up around one idea: HR leaders do not need more content. They need the ability to turn people strategy into executive action.
On January 1, 2027, a founding group of senior HR leaders enters together for a 90-day Strategic HR Influence Lab—then continues inside the Lounge for the rest of the year. No slow trickle. No empty room.
Read the Founding Season planThe Founding Season
A 90-day strategic influence experience, then a year in the Lounge
Built for senior HR professionals who want greater strategic influence inside their organizations, and who have a real 2027 initiative to move.
01
The Strategic HR Influence Lab
Three live working sessions in January, a private kickoff reception, and an implementation clinic in March—all aimed at one initiative you choose.
02
Peer councils and Speakeasies
Small peer advisory groups, monthly closed-door Speakeasy conversations, and a practical workforce research briefing from Jumpstart HR Research.
03
A showcase, then a full year
A 90-day progress showcase in March, followed by twelve months of Lounge membership with founding-member programming and preferred renewal pricing.
Your First 90 Days
Everyone enters together. Here is the calendar.
January 1
The Lounge opens
Community opens; welcome experience released.
January 7
Founding-member reception
A live, private reception to meet the group.
January 14, 21, 28
Strategic HR Influence Lab
Three live working sessions, one week apart.
February – March
Councils, Speakeasy, showcase
Peer councils, the first Speakeasy, an implementation clinic, and the 90-day showcase.
Your host
Joey Price
Founder and CEO of Jumpstart HR, author of The Power of HR (Kogan Page, 2025), executive analyst, and keynote and TEDx speaker. Joey advises HR technology companies, sits on advisory boards at UKG and Arena Analytics, and has been named an HR Executive Magazine Top 100 HR Tech Influencer. The Lounge is where he works directly with senior HR leaders on the initiatives that actually reach the executive room.
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The Founding Season is intentionally small. The goal is not thousands of casual leads; it is a founding group of committed HR leaders who understand the assignment and intend to participate. That is what creates the energy of a real room.
Applications open December 7. Enrollment closes when the group is full.
Enter 2027 with the influence, strategy, and peer support to move your most important HR initiative forward.
Join the founding waitlist for first access to the December briefing, the application, and founding-year pricing.
Join the Founding Waitlist