The Talent Acquisition Council
| Talent Acquisition Council Members: | |||
| Core Planning Team: | |||
| Tamarin Lindenberg, Founder & CEO, IEM, Inc. | |||
| Marc Jordon, President &
CEO, Memphis Regional Chamber |
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| Suzanne Hamm, Council Chair | |||
| Tom Schmitt, SVP, FedEx Solutions | |||
| Andee Wilcott, Council Chair | |||
| Dexter Mueller | |||
| Jerry Ballard | |||
| Memphis Marketing Council: | |||
| Suzanne Hamm, Marketing Strategist & Community Investment Consultant, Council Chair | |||
| Randy Jelinek, President Y2M Marketing | |||
| Dexter Mueller, SVP Memphis Regional Chamber | |||
| Stephanie Sasse, Photo Journalist | |||
| Technical Development Council: | |||
| Andee Wilcott, President, A+R
Media Studio, LLC, Council Chair |
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| Rudy Dominguez, Principal Partner,
A+R Media Studio, LLC |
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| Benchmarking Council: | |||
| McClain Gordon, Commercial Real Estate Developer, Past President Gordon Trucking, Inc. | |||
| Della Adams, Director, Memphis Regional Chamber | |||
| Larry Henson, VP Memphis Regional Chamber | |||
| Industry Leadership Council: | |||
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| Migrating Professionals Council: | |||
| Jerry Ballard, SVP ServiceMaster, Inc., Council Chair | |||
| Ambassadorial Council: | |||
| Marc Jordon, President & CEO, Memphis Regional Chamber, Council Chair | |||
| Brad Champlin, EVP, Regions Bank | |||
| Cultural Competency Council: | |||
| Dr. Diana Wong, Professor, Eastern Michigan University | |||
| Calvin Anderson, CEO, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Memphis | |||
| Industry Expansion Council: | |||
| Dexter Mueller, SVP Memphis Regional Chamber | |||
The Talent Acquisition Councils support and sustain the goals of the Talent Acquisition Plan™. The Council is comprised of small specialized groups whose purpose is to analyze barriers to recruitment and retention of top talent, and develop strategies designed to fulfill the council’s mission. These groups include industry’s top leadership talent and bring expertise spanning many areas of expertise. Council members include migrated executives as well as those native to the local community.
- Core Planning Team
Role: Ensures that individual council goals and outcomes form a composite plan to address barriers to successful recruitment and retention of top talent in the local market.
- Memphis Marketing Council
Role: To ensure that the Memphis marketing message includes a specific focus on recruiting and retaining the best; ensures activities surrounding this are reflected in marketing materials. What is the Memphis marketing message? What should it be?
- Technical Development Council
Role: To develop web-based systems, data collection models, the Talent Inventory Database and other pertinent tools to further the Memphis marketing message and connect leadership talent within the community.
- Benchmarking Council
Role: To define the skilled workforce categorically, analyze data collected, establish benchmarks with other communities and measure the plan’s results against past community efforts to attract the “best and the brightest”.
- EHRF-IEM Industry Leadership Council
Role: Reflects challenges for local industry in recruiting and retention of top talent and evaluates effectiveness of strategies on an individual industry basis.
- Migrating Professionals Council
Role: Ensures the needs of in-migrating talent are heard in a ‘boundaryless’ environment. This groups candid input will be utilized to shape and measure the efforts expended in this body of work; the participants in this group represent the profile of talent the market seeks to both attract, and retain.
- Ambassadorial Council
Role: To serve as liaison between incoming talent and the community; to hold exit interviews with out-migrating talent, to serve as champions of the intersection between industry and city goals.
- Cultural Competency Council
Role: To develop integration strategies for female, ethnic, Gen X, Gen Y, and/or Baby Boomers talent into the Memphis marketplace.
- Industry Expansion Council:
Role: Represents the overall needs of industry in expansion and relocation planning; serves as a resource for connecting industry to talent resources.