Become part of a like-minded community where you can safely experiment with design thinking to solve complex Human Resources problems!

In late 2016, our Founder Nicole Dessain designed the HR.Hackathon event concept for DisruptHR Chicago. It resulted from feedback that the community wanted to have more opportunity to collaborate with peers. Nicole combined this insight with her passion for design thinking. And, voila! The first HR.Hackathon event was delivered in June 2017 with 50 rock star HR and business leaders. Countless post-it notes, laughter, inspiration, and ten top ideas later a movement was born.

“50 diverse minds working actively in teams on a single challenge, listening to each other, considering options, connecting dots among ideas. The design of the hackathon then forces teams to converge. You commit to an idea. Then you build it out. Then you share it. The result: 10 teams, 10 interesting potential ways to approach the challenge.” (Jeff Merrell, Associate Director at Northwestern University in “Practical inquiry, learning and the DisruptHR Chicago Hackathon”)

The HR.Hackathon Alliance has expanded to seven cities and counting. Our global community has grown to 3,600 and we’ve “hacked” #HRvsRacism, #HRvsBurnout, #HRvsVirus, employee experience, employee engagement, diversity recruiting, flexible work, onboarding, pay transparency, and first time manager support.