Founder and CEO
It all comes down to values. Sprockets' mission was to match people to possibilities. HourWork's was to help 80,000,000 people achieve the American dream. If I did anything, I hope it just encourages people to acknowledge and respect the hourly workers around them.
Using AI to help millions at the most iconic brands.
Raised 8 figures from the industry's best VC to build an AI hiring platform that made data-driven and equitable people decisions for industry leading companies.
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Led HourWork, a leading technology in hourly employee and empowerment, from bankruptcy to a successful exit.
After being acquired in late 2025, AJ was placed on the Humanly's executive team to lead inorganic growth including M&A, partnerships, and market research.
Humanly is the leading force in ethical AI across the hourly workforce.
Hear directly from the executives and HR leaders who have experienced AJ’s keynotes, sessions, and conversations firsthand.
"Top Notch! I haven’t taken so many notes in a while."
“This was excellent. AJ is a very good speaker and looking forward to reading his book.”
“AJ was fantastic! His slides and information were very engaging, and he told the story of the hourly worker like I’ve never heard it before.”
“AJ was excellent—loved the combo of insights, presentation and discussion. He was very knowledgeable and brought good information to engage the group and discuss.”
“Great discussion, powerful information — best presenter.”
“This was great. AJ is a very engaging speaker.”
“I really enjoyed this session. The hourly employee experience is a key concern for my leadership, and optimizing for that workforce is central to our HR technology strategy.”
“I loved this session — looking forward to reading AJ’s book and exploring more the tools available for hourly populations. Very relevant for me.”
“Good set up about how we approach hourly workforce. So helpful since they represent such a large part of companies.”
“Great session that was highly relevant as we have a large amount of our workforce that is hourly.”
“Great session giving a different view of the challenges of the hourly workforce. Great stats and loved receiving the PPT decks after. I’m looking forward to reading his book.”
“Great speaker; really engaging! Really passionate about the topic of hourly employees and brought forward some really insightful information that really made us think about the employee population in the organization.”