Joel Kammeyer, Head of Community at Direct Collective, How Connection and Community Turn Contingent Buyers Into Leaders
The contingent workforce is the one corner of business where the playbooks are not public. Banks, the Big Four, and Fortune 500 programs do not publish how they run their VMS, vet a freelancer, or catch candidate fraud. That knowledge lives in people's heads. Which means the leaders who win are the ones with the best access to other leaders. Joel Kammeyer joined Direct Collective in June 2026 after 14 years running programs at Epiq and Cerner. Direct Collective is a curated community of 300+ contingent workforce leaders: Ask the Community, city chapters, monthly member matches, peer pods, and…
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