CEO, Human Potential Network

Stand Together • Arlington, VA

28d • $225,000 - $300,000

About The Position

Stand Together is a philanthropic community that supports changemakers working to address major societal challenges. The Human Potential Network (HPN) brings together employers and innovators to rethink how companies find, develop, and unleash talent. It provides a trusted space for business leaders to address shared talent challenges, test approaches, learn from peers, and expand solutions that create value for people and employers.

HPN has established an initial network of leading employers, launched the Human Potential Summit, and developed workstreams addressing pressing talent challenges. It is preparing to transition from an initiative incubated within Stand Together into an independent organization. The CEO will lead this transition in close partnership with Stand Together’s Future of Work leadership, which will serve as HPN’s organizational incubator and investor.

The CEO will develop and execute the strategy for establishing HPN as an independent organization, including its business and revenue models, talent, budget, operations, governance, and organizational capabilities. The role will also strengthen HPN’s underlying model by generating revenue, developing valuable employer offerings, building a high-performing team, and expanding corporate and philanthropic partnerships. This is a builder role focused on shaping both the organization and the model that will sustain it.

Requirements

• Significant executive leadership experience and a record of building an organization, business, platform, initiative, or capability from an early stage.
• Demonstrated ability to turn an ambitious idea into a focused strategy, sustainable business model, and effective execution.
• Experience leading significant organizational change, such as launches, spinouts, growth, or institution-building.
• A track record of generating and growing revenue through business development, fundraising, partnerships, membership, services, or other market-tested models.
• Strong business judgment and ability to understand what customers, members, and partners value and adapt strategy to market evidence.
• Experience building trusted relationships with CEOs, senior corporate executives, philanthropic leaders, and other sophisticated external stakeholders.
• A record of building and leading high-performing teams with clear roles and accountability in an entrepreneurial environment.
• Ability to move between strategy and execution, setting direction while remaining close to the work of building new capabilities.
• Strong executive presence and communication skills for representing HPN to business, philanthropic, and other external audiences.
• Intellectual curiosity, humility, and willingness to challenge assumptions, seek knowledge, and change course based on evidence.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building or scaling a membership organization, industry association, executive network, professional community, marketplace, or other platform that depends on consistently creating value for participants.
• Experience developing products, services, or experiences for senior business leaders and refining them based on customer or member demand.
• Experience working across business and philanthropy with a strong commercial or entrepreneurial orientation.
• Familiarity with talent, workforce, AI, skills-based hiring, internal mobility, or related employer issues; deep subject-matter expertise is welcome but not required.

Responsibilities

• Lead HPN’s transition to independence by developing and executing an integrated plan for strategy, revenue, talent, budget, operations, governance, and organizational capabilities.
• Translate HPN’s purpose and early proof points into a focused strategy, operating model, and sustainable business model.
• Generate corporate and philanthropic revenue and test offerings and funding models for repeatability and scale.
• Work with business leaders to identify talent challenges and develop workstreams, partnerships, convenings, and other offerings that help companies learn, experiment, and act.
• Build trusted relationships and partnerships with CEOs, CHROs, philanthropists, and other senior leaders.
• Represent HPN in executive conversations, events, media, and other channels to attract employers, funders, and collaborators.
• Build and lead a high-performing team, establishing talent, responsibilities, operating rhythms, and accountability.
• Create a culture of principled entrepreneurship that encourages knowledge-seeking, challenging assumptions, adaptation, ownership, and value creation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed