The People & Culture
Power List
The CHROs, Chief People Officers and Total Rewards leaders who decide how organizations attract, reward and keep their people: recognized for shaping the work, and the conversation about it.
People leadership shapes everything employees feel about work, long before and long after the offer letter. These fourteen leaders decide how organizations attract, develop, reward and retain their people, building culture and the modern talent ecosystem in an AI-driven economy.
What earns a place
Strategic people leadership
People leadership beyond HR operations, shaping talent strategy, culture, total rewards, and how the workforce is designed to win.
A public voice
Leaders who show up to share the craft of the role, building the function, designing rewards, and where people strategy is heading next.
Modernizing the function
Operators rethinking how People runs in an AI-driven economy, talent, total rewards, org design, while keeping the organization human.
Featured Stories
In Their Own Words
Recognition puts a name on the list. A feature is where that leader gets to explain how they actually operate, at length and in their own words. These are the Talent & Total Rewards leaders who have told theirs.
2 leaders have taken us up on it so far. Every leader named below is invited to do the same. It costs nothing, you keep control of the copy, and nothing publishes without your approval.
The Class of 2026
Hover or tap any leader to flip their card and read the citation. This roll call grows through the year as the class takes shape.
Know a people leader who belongs here?
The People & Culture Power List is a living series, reviewed on a rolling basis. It takes two minutes, and recognition often turns on someone deciding to put a name forward.
