About Founding Season
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Founding Season · Opens January 1, 2027

Enter 2027 with the influence, strategy, and peer support to move your most important HR initiative forward.

Join a carefully selected founding group of HR leaders for a 90-day strategic influence experience—then continue growing together inside Joey’s HR Lounge.

Applications open December 7. Enrollment closes when the founding group is full.

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A note from Joey

Why the Lounge is being rebuilt

A community with no members cannot sell access to the community. So we stopped. Instead of an open door and a slow trickle, Joey’s HR Lounge is relaunching as a coordinated founding experience: one group, entering together on January 1, 2027, working on real initiatives with real deadlines.

HR leaders do not need more content. They need the ability to turn people strategy into executive action—and a trusted circle of peers who understand the stakes. The Founding Season is built to create exactly that, and the members who join it will shape what the Lounge becomes.

Everyone enters together. There is no empty room.

Who the Founding Season is for

Senior HR professionals who want greater strategic influence inside their organizations—and who have a specific initiative that needs executive support in 2027.

01

You carry a 2027 initiative that matters

A reorganization, an HR technology decision, a workforce plan, a culture reset. Something that needs executive backing to move.

02

You are in the meeting, but not yet shaping the decision

You have the seat. You want the influence that comes with translating people strategy into business language executives act on.

03

You will show up

The Founding Season is a cohort, not a content library. Members commit to the January sessions, a peer group, and a 90-day progress showcase in March.

Titles vary—CHROs, VPs and Directors of People, Heads of HR, and senior HR business partners on the executive track. The common thread is a real initiative and a willingness to participate.

The Founding Offer

Joey’s HR Lounge: Founding Season

A 90-day guided experience for senior HR professionals who want greater strategic influence inside their organizations. January through March runs as a cohort. After March, it becomes the ongoing Lounge membership.

The Strategic HR Influence Lab

Three live working sessions in January on translating people strategy into executive action.

A private kickoff reception

A live founding-member reception on January 7 to meet the group you will be working alongside.

Small peer advisory groups

Curated peer councils, placed before the community opens, that meet through the season.

Monthly Speakeasy conversations

Closed-door sessions with authors, executive HR trainers, workforce researchers, and HR technology founders.

A practical workforce research briefing

Jumpstart HR Research findings interpreted for the decisions in front of you, not the headlines.

One implementation clinic

A working session in March to pressure-test your plan before you take it to the executive room.

A 90-day progress showcase

Every founding member presents where their initiative stands at the end of March.

Twelve months of Lounge membership

The full year inside Joey’s HR Lounge, with founding-member programming and preferred renewal pricing.

Your First 90 Days

Here is exactly what happens after you join

The Lounge officially opens on New Year’s Day. Everyone enters together, and the calendar is set before you arrive.

January 1

The Lounge opens

Community opens and the welcome experience is released. Nothing to attend—just arrive.

January 7

Founding-member reception

A live, private reception to meet the group and set the tone for the season.

January 14

Influence Lab, session one

Why strong HR initiatives fail in the executive room—and how to frame yours so it does not.

January 21

Influence Lab, session two

Translating an HR priority into business value your executive team will fund.

January 28

Influence Lab, session three

The difference between being invited to the meeting and influencing the decision.

February

Peer councils and the first Speakeasy

Small advisory groups begin meeting. The first closed-door Speakeasy conversation convenes.

March

Implementation clinic and showcase

Pressure-test your plan, then present your 90-day progress to the founding group.

April onward

The ongoing Lounge

The cohort becomes the community: monthly Speakeasies, research briefings, and the peers you started with.

How enrollment works

The founding group is deliberately small. We are enrolling a committed group of HR leaders who understand the assignment and intend to participate—not filling a funnel.

1

Join the waitlist

Tell us who you are and the initiative you need executive support for in 2027. Waitlist members hear everything first.

2

Attend the free briefing

In early December, Joey hosts The 2027 Strategic HR Influence Briefing, a live session on what senior HR leaders need to move initiatives forward next year.

3

Apply, December 7–18

Applications are open for ten days. Where it helps, we hold a short fit conversation. Enrollment closes when the group is full.

4

Enter together, January 1

Before the doors open you choose your 2027 initiative, meet your peer group, and receive the calendar and pre-work.

Founding-year pricing and payment options are shared with waitlist members before applications open. There is no discounted early bird: founding members receive additional programming and preferred renewal pricing instead.

Frequently asked questions

Founding Season Waitlist

Join the founding waitlist

Waitlist members get first access to the December briefing, the application, and founding-year pricing. Tell us the initiative you need executive support for in 2027—it shapes the curriculum.

No spam, no drip campaign. A handful of updates between now and January 1.

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