Our Focus

"What we’re really about here is a kind of economic war with other cities." - McClain Gordon, Real Estate Developer, Past President of Gordon Trucking, Inc. "...if you look at some of the more successful growth stories as of business communities and cities, whether it’s a Charlotte, whether it’s a Bay Area over the last decade or so, whether it’s a Portland, Seattle, they’ve been successful as growth areas because they’ve had an influx of top talent in addition to their homegrown talent. Again, that’s good for the city and it’s good for the primary businesses in those cities. - Tom Schmitt, Senior Vice President, FedEx Solutions

The Talent Acquisition Plan™ intentionally focuses on top executive talent for this reason:

By creating and sustaining the kind of community infrastructure needed to attract and retain top executives long-term, executives thrive, and when they do, their companies, families, and communities prosper along with them.

The key to attracting and retaining top executives long-term is identifying their professional and social integration needs and recommending and implementing specific programs to meet those needs for the purpose of encouraging migration and retention.

The Plan works in four directions:

• Building confidence: building confidence in the private and public sectors that we will do what we say we will do
  
  
• Removing boundaries that prohibit innovation: allow ideas to flow freely without restraint of political, hierarchical or horizontal lines.
  
  
• Creating capacity for change; become flexible and agile to achieve adaptability and sustainability
  
  
• Encourage cumulative change; develop momentum in the desired direction
  
  

To initiate the Plan, IEM developed a 14-Point Talent Acquisition Plan™ which serves as a blue print, identifying the specific steps and setting the tone for the community collaboration needed to accomplish the mission and interim milestones.

Download a copy of the Memphis Talent Acquisition Plan™ brochure.