Josh Lemon is a Total Rewards leader who builds the tools he wishes existed. He brings more than 20 years of experience across HR, Total Rewards, and finance, including serving as Senior Director of Global Total Rewards at a Fortune 500 company. His work centers on a practical idea: AI gives HR professionals the ability to build tools for problems they understand firsthand.

Josh is the author of the forthcoming book, The Speed of Your Dependencies: 20 Total Rewards Tools You Can Build Yourself. He has designed and deployed AI-powered applications for job architecture matching, compensation offer modeling, policy guidance, and benefits communication. Through speaking, hands-on workshops, and consulting, he helps practitioners turn ideas into working applications while addressing security, governance, and adoption.

Josh is a WorldatWork faculty member, serves on the board of the Twin Cities Compensation Network, and is the founder of J Lemon Ventures, home to his speaking and consulting work at JoshLemonAI.com. He is also co-founder of FlashBenefits, an employee benefits communication platform.