A high-level view of who our community is: the leaders, the levels, the industries, the company sizes, and the places they lead from. Built for the partners and sponsors who want to reach them.
This is a senior room. It is anchored by decision makers and senior leaders, with a deep bench of practitioners and emerging leaders coming up behind them.
Share of the community by level
Executive & VP and Director levels together make up 37% of the community.
How the community qualifies against fit
11,000+ senior leaders and decision makers (Tiers 1 and 2), roughly one in three of the community.
A People-function community first, with meaningful depth in Learning and Development, Total Rewards, Culture, DEI, and Talent.
Title variants grouped into core People and HR roles
Title variants (for example Director of HR, People, Talent, and L&D) are grouped into their core role.
Where leaders concentrate their work
General HR and People spans generalist and broad-mandate leadership roles.
Six core personas define the community, from the People Chief setting strategy to the generalists and specialists who run it day to day.
A broad, diversified base led by technology, healthcare, and professional services. No single sector dominates, which keeps the community relevant across the market.
Share of leaders with a known industry
Based on the 76% of the community with a verified industry. Percentages shown are of known-industry records.
Weighted toward enterprise and upper mid-market employers, with healthy representation across small and mid-sized organizations.
Share of leaders with a known company size
Based on the 73% of the community with a verified company size.
SMB, Mid-Market, and Enterprise split
SMB: 1 to 200. Mid-Market: 201 to 1,000. Enterprise: 1,001+. Of leaders with a known size.
A US-anchored community with a real international footprint. Concentrated in the major metros where mid-market and enterprise talent decisions get made.
Share of US-based leaders
Of US leaders with a known state.
Ranked by number of leaders
Share of leaders with a known country
Of leaders with a known country, spanning 110+ nations worldwide.
This report reflects the qualified practitioner community: more than 35,000 senior HR and People leaders drawn from the full Achieve contact database. It excludes technology vendors, staffing and recruiting contacts, and roles outside the People function, so the figures represent the audience a partner would actually reach.
Every contact is classified by a consistent method: job titles are normalized, grouped into role families, and tiered by seniority and function; company sizes are mapped to standard bands; and industries are mapped to a fixed set of 20 categories. Geography is normalized from raw location fields.
Where a field is not verified, it is marked Unknown rather than guessed. Industry is known for 76% of the community and company size for 73%; percentages in those sections are shown against the known base and labeled accordingly.
Snapshot generated July 2026. Achieve, d/b/a ACHIEVEE INC. achievenet.org