We’re building an intentionally small, fully remote community of 500 people & talent pioneers who believe there’s a better way to build companies; one that’s grounded on principles of transparency, and a belief that culture can and should be defined, documented, shared & managed like a product if you want to to prioritise people experience & organisational health. You can read more about our mission here
We’re currently at ~250 members, growing to 500 globally, at which point we’ll stop adding new members, operating a one-in, one-out approach.
ℹ️ Key Info
| 📍Where We Meet (Location) | Fully Remote (Mostly UK | US | Europe) |
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| ⏰ When We Meet | We’re mostly async, aside from monthly live Roundtables & Speakers (Usually 3pm GMT) |
| ⚒️ Tool Stack | Notion | Gitbook | Luma | Zoom | Slack |
| 💰 Membership Price | £20 | $25 USD | €24 EUR per month, rolling | Cancel Anytime |
| 🔗 Apply to Join | www.openorg.fyi/community |
👥 Who’s Here?
We have a few exceptions, but generally speaking 95% of the community right now looks like:
- Standalone or ‘Lean team’ People or Talent Leader
- Startup, Scaleup, SME (10-2000 headcount)
- Mostly UK | Europe | US.
- Passionate believer of transparency as a way to build trust.
- Obsessed with making culture something that’s tangible, operationalised and managed like a product
⚡ What’s on Offer, and What Does The Day-to-Day Look Like?
- Super responsive #help-please channel for when you need a soundboard, support, or validation on anything big or small across People & Culture. Tap into the experience of 250+ other startup/scaleup people leaders who know what you are facing.
- Opportunity to test your skills by giving back generously (one of our values…) to folks who ask for help. Dive in, share what you know, help if you can.
- Access to Adam & John (Open Org’s Founders) on Slack when you need. Plus the occasional coffee if you need an ideation partner, or just need to shout, vent or cry. We’re here. In your corner.
- Join our monthly Roundtables; small virtual rooms of 10-15 members deep diving on a topic that’s usually proposed, upvoted & selected by the community themselves.
- Sit round the community campfire; monthly speaker sessions where you’ll hear from people leaders who have the scars to show and the stories to tell. Previous folks include Jessica Zwaan, JooBee Yeow, Thomas Forstner & Jenn Bouyoukos.
- Access 1000+ tactical resources, templates, playbooks and helpful content on The Open OS, our community knowledge base built on Gitbook.
- Contribute to quarterly co-creation builds with other community members. We pick something useful, and build it together before sharing with the world for free. You can see our latest effort here- The Open People Manager Handbook