When Dan Fisher, Steve Garcia, Beth Gullette and David Peterson founded the Institute for Contemporary Leadership to work together bringing cutting-edge leadership development methods to executives from different industries, they also developed a think tank process of regularly convening senior talent leaders. As they met with talent leaders, they saw a pattern: not only did the senior talent leaders create new connections with one another, but when they did, new ideas and questions were generated that could move the field forward. Talent management professionals develop the careers of everyone around them — with a community of fellow practitioners, they can take the lead in crafting their own careers, too. The Talent Management Collective was created to be that community.