Company — HumanWorks Inc.

Portrait of Darein L. Burton, Founder and CEO of HumanWorks Inc., wearing a dark suit against a light studio background. — Darein L. Burton — Founder & CEO

The Founder

Two decades of finding the same pattern.

Darein kept finding the same pattern inside very different organizations — the kind Talent360 is built for:

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Health System & Payer Strategy

Strategy roles at Blue Cross Blue Shield and Rush University Medical Center — forty-plus service-line strategies, a five-state health plan's product strategy.

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Management Consulting

Associate at A.T. Kearney — a pharmacy chain restructured, a global strategy firm's discipline for connecting silos into one picture.

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Duke MBA

The Fuqua School of Business, concentrating in strategy.

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Digital Media Operations

Analytics and strategy across eighty-plus web properties at Urban One (formerly Interactive One), a leading Black-owned digital media company in New York.

Duke Fuqua MBA — Strategy A.T. Kearney Rush University Medical Center Blue Cross Blue Shield (5-state) Urban One

The Conclusion

The org chart isn't the strategy.

It held every time, across every one of those organizations: the people running the floor, the site, the desk — they are the strategy. That's the thesis Talent360 encodes, and why HumanWorks starts every engagement by asking whether the constraint is winning more work, or delivering the work already won.

"People are your strategy."

— Darein Burton, Founder & CEO

How We Work

Discipline most firms skip

We Build On Ourselves First

We run a live recruiting desk as well as the analysis — which is what taught us the economics the analytics world does not have.

Diagnose Before We Hire

Six honest paths before any placement. Owning a staffing desk doesn't bias the diagnosis — it's what makes the placement trustworthy when it comes.

Every Engagement Compounds the Product

Each capability we build is classified as it ships — client-specific, vertical-common, or core. The product is discovered empirically, not designed in a vacuum.

Part of P&A

Boutique attention,
national reach.

Our placement desk is part of Patrice & Associates — one of the largest hospitality recruiting organizations in North America, with more than 30 years of placement history. That gives a founder-led practice the reach of a national firm: a home desk in New York City, and roots reaching into St. Louis.

Talent360 itself is HumanWorks' own — built on the founder's background and run from New York with the same discipline and infrastructure.

2024

Founded in New York City

39+

Patrice & Associates Territories

AEC

First Deployment Outside HumanWorks Itself

We build the model.
Then we run it on ourselves.

Two decades of finding the same pattern.

Health System & Payer Strategy

Management Consulting

Duke MBA

Digital Media Operations

The org chart isn't the strategy.

Discipline most firms skip

We Build On Ourselves First

Diagnose Before We Hire

Every Engagement Compounds the Product

Boutique attention,
national reach.

Want the model pointed at your business?

Two decades of finding the same pattern.

Health System & Payer Strategy

Management Consulting

Duke MBA

Digital Media Operations

The org chart isn't the strategy.

Discipline most firms skip

We Build On Ourselves First

Diagnose Before We Hire

Every Engagement Compounds the Product

Boutique attention,national reach.

Want the model pointed at your business?

Boutique attention,
national reach.