A private, application-only board of CPOs, CHROs, and VPs of People at 200+-person companies. The core is your monthly board meeting: a standing group of 5–6 vetted peers working through your hardest problems. Around it: the Boardroom (always-on peer help under NDA), monthly expert sessions, the MPL Concierge, visibility across MPL's podcast, newsletter, and MPL Live, and in-person events — one flagship gathering a year plus member dinners.
You hold the top People role — CPO, CHRO, or VP of People — at a company of 200+ employees. Those are the minimums; every applicant is then interviewed personally. We're assessing what you're navigating and what you'd bring to the room, and we never seat direct competitors together.
Request a seat → interview with the MPL Team → competitor check → review and invitation, usually within days → onboarding (NDA signed, priorities captured) → your first board meeting within 3 weeks.
Yes, it's a lot for a membership. It's not a lot for a board seat — and curation is why the room works.
Your monthly board meeting, the Boardroom, monthly expert sessions, the MPL Concierge, visibility across MPL's podcast, newsletter, and MPL Live, and in-person events — the flagship and member dinners. Everything ladders up to three things: your board, the room, and the network.
You also get a 1:1 with the MPL Team at onboarding and again each year, to make sure your board and your priorities stay matched as your role changes.
5–6 People leaders matched on the priorities and challenges you share at onboarding — and on the monthly window you can actually make. Never a direct competitor. Groups hold for a quarter, because trust needs repeated exposure, then reshuffle so your board keeps getting smarter.
It depends on the month. Some months the whole board works one member's problem, some months the focus is quarterly planning, some months everyone gets time in the hot seat, and some months it's about your own growth. Your facilitator runs every one, and you'll know the format ahead of time so you can come prepared.
Board members are public about their seats — you'll see "Board Member, Modern People Leader" on LinkedIn profiles across the industry. What we don't do is publish a roster or market our members; there's a member directory once you're inside. What we can say: every member holds the top People seat at a 200+-person company, across SaaS, healthcare, fintech, consumer, and more — collectively responsible for over 100,000 employees.
Here's the exact deal. Your membership is yours to share — most members list "Board Member, Modern People Leader" on LinkedIn, and we encourage it. What's said inside is a different matter: every member signs an NDA at onboarding, every expert session is off the record, and nothing leaves the room — no war stories, no screenshots, no "a CPO at a healthcare company told me…" It's also structural: no direct competitors seated together, ever.
Annual dues, discussed in the interview. Some members expense the seat against an L&D or executive-development budget — we'll give you a one-page breakdown of what the seat returns, written for whoever has to approve it. Plenty of members fund it themselves, on purpose: the seat is yours, not your company's, and it follows you to your next role.
The seat is yours, not your company's. If you change roles, you keep it. If you're between roles, you keep it — you were in the top seat when you joined, and that's the bar. The one thing we'd ask is that you tell your group, because they'll want to help.
Chief is excellent — and horizontal. It's for all women executives, across every function. The Board is built exclusively for People leaders: every conversation, template, and expert session is about your job.
The free HR communities are the opposite problem: huge, noisy, junior, and nothing sensitive can be said there. The Board is NDA-backed, and vetted one interview at a time.
The working rhythm is virtual on purpose — the best five peers for your exact problem are almost never in your city, and a monthly session beats a quarterly flight. In person still matters: one flagship gathering a year plus member dinners in key cities. Virtual for the work, in person for the bond.
About 2 hours a month: your 75-minute board meeting, the expert session if the topic's yours, and the Boardroom whenever you need it. Built for people in the top People seat — the seat works around your calendar, not the other way around.
Annual. But a board isn't a one-year experiment — the value compounds with the same trusted room over years. At renewal you get a 1:1 with the MPL Team to make sure the seat is still earning its place on your calendar.
No. Strict no-solicitation policy — first violation gets a nudge, second a warning, third loses the seat. The room only works if nobody's selling.