The People Performance Institute is a private institute for senior HR executives — combining rigorous research, peer community, and investment access in one place.
The people who run HR in large enterprises are among the most consequential decision-makers in any organization. They shape culture, manage talent at scale, drive organizational change, and increasingly sit at the intersection of technology and human performance. And yet they've never had a real institutional home.
Not a conference. Not a certification body. Not an industry association. A genuine institute — with research that takes their questions seriously, a peer network that operates at their level, and access to the investment table where the future of workforce technology is being decided. That is what the People Performance Institute exists to be.
Every piece of research, every roundtable, every investment thesis starts with the same question: what does the senior HR executive actually need? Not what vendors want to sell. Not what consultants want to recommend. What operators need.
PPI research is held to the standards of a serious institution — clear methodology, honest findings, and conclusions that hold up to scrutiny. But it is written for executives who make decisions, not academics who publish papers.
The most valuable professional conversations happen when people stop performing for an audience. PPI creates the conditions for genuine candor — through curated cohorts, confidential roundtables, and a culture that values honesty over optics.
The lived experience of a CHRO who has navigated workforce transformation at scale is an asset — not just professionally, but financially. PPI is built on the conviction that operator insight belongs at the investment table.
PPI will never optimize for scale at the expense of quality. Membership is curated. Cohorts are small. Research is focused. The value of the community depends entirely on who is in it.
The name is not incidental. Everything PPI does — research, investment, community — is ultimately in service of the belief that how organizations treat their people is the most important variable in long-term performance.
The People Performance Institute is in its founding phase — which means the people who join now help shape what it becomes. The research agenda. The roundtable format. The investment thesis. The culture of the community.
Being part of the founding cohort is not just membership. It is authorship.
PPI's founding cohort is forming now. Apply to be considered for membership.