HC Executive Community
A closed-door room for the talent leaders building flexible talent into their workforce strategy. Meet your peers, set the standards for the category, and make collective demands of the solutions serving you — with no vendors listening in.
One room. One voice.
Meet your peers, set the standards for the category, and turn shared frustrations into a collective ask — then hold the solutions serving you to it.
Meet your peers
Other talent leaders wrestling with the same shift — in a no-vendor room where you can speak freely.
Set the standards
Define what good looks like for the category: how flexible talent is bought, measured, and governed.
- SLAs — Response times, quality bars, and reporting standards.
- Contract terms — Fair, portable terms.
Demand from solutions
Who runs this room.
A peer who has sat in your seat — not a vendor, not a moderator.
Tony Buffum
Former Public-Company CHRO
I spent my career as a public-company Chief Human Resources Officer, leading workforce transformations across Fortune 500 organizations. I built and scaled enterprise flexible-talent programs before the category had a name — and now I convene the leaders defining what comes next.
I host the monthly call, shape each agenda around what you're wrestling with right now, and carry the room's collective standards back to the solutions serving our category.
Upwork
VP, HR Client Strategy
FLIR Systems
CHRO
Stanley Black & Decker
VP of HR
Our Executive in Residence Network
Plus a bench of operators and executives-in-residence who advise the room.
Matthew Mottola
CEO & Co-Founder
Caitlin McGregor
Head of Growth
Jack Spencer
Head of UK Adoption
Matt Coatney
AI & Technology Executive
The full network unlocks when you're accepted
Request an inviteIndustry Pulse
An anonymous benchmark — see how your peers are really doing · rolling 30 days
Question 1 of 8
What share of your workforce do you expect to be AI agents?
Digital workers you staff and manage like people. No consensus yet — which is exactly what makes this worth tracking.
Question 2 of 8
Are you planning for reductions in your internal workforce?
Industry Insights
Everything happening in the flexible-workforce industry — acquisitions, funding, stats, and terminology. Curated by Human Cloud.
Community-curated events across HR, Tech, Workforce & more.
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21 upcoming industry events tracked by the community
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The stories moving the flexible-workforce market — curated Monday, Wednesday & Friday.
Knox Lane Completes Acquisition of Cross Country Healthcare; Joel Tremblay Named CEO
PE firm Knox Lane closed its $437M take-private of the healthcare staffing firm, installed a new CEO, and spun locum operations to All Star Healthcare.
Business Wire · Jul 21Refer, a Startup That Charges Workers for Placement, Raises $7.5M
An AI hiring platform where tech candidates pay a fee when hired and the tool is free for employers raised $7.5M, testing a new marketplace model.
Staffing Industry Analysts · Jul 21
Events.
One room, once a month. Invitation only.
HC Community Call - July 2026
This month: Tony Buffum continues the M&A discussion, Glen Hodgson (Founder & CEO, Free Trade Europa) breaks down the Geneva platform directive and EU policy, Jeff Nugent on how classification and policy lead to revenue or block it, and Matthew Mottola on the certification program between Human Cloud and the industry.
Topics
Experts
Past Events
June 2026
HC Community Call - PE Customers, State of Freelance
This call turned into one of our most candid M&A discussions yet: why platforms are being valued like staffing firms, why the acquisition sweet spot has settled at $5M-$10M, and why acquirers pay for client demand rather than talent communities. Tony recapped how private equity is actually approaching AI (pilots everywhere, discipline nowhere), and Jon Younger shared new Startup Generation data pointing to a structural shift toward entrepreneurial careers, with 92M new digital jobs projected by 2030.
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