A selective community grounded in behavioral science. Not a conference. Not a newsletter. Real rooms, real dialogue, and a clear path forward.
TMC is, by design, not Swan Lake at Lincoln Center. It's Off-Broadway theatre with great actors, audience participation, and no posturing. Members come here to develop themselves and each other.
Managers, senior managers, and rising specialists in talent, L&D, OD, talent acquisition, and assessment.
Senior talent executives — heads of talent, L&D, OD, talent acquisition, and HRBP leaders.
Sitting CHROs and Chief People Officers of mid-market and enterprise organizations.
Working sessions, not panels. Peer consultations, not networking. The community is built on participation.
Monthly facilitated discussions on live topics — AI in assessment, hybrid culture, succession planning, the reinvention of leadership development. Not panels. Not webinars. A room where members work the question together.
The same people, in the same room, on a regular cadence. The kind of trust that takes a year to build and changes what you'll bring to the table. Tier-segmented so the seniority of the room is honored.
Periodic sessions with thinkers, researchers, and senior practitioners — sometimes formal webinars, sometimes intimate fireside chats. Always optional. Always recorded for members who can't attend live.
Stakeholder management, succession planning, executive presence, decision-making — practical sessions led by TMC Faculty.
Smaller in-person moments where the community deepens. Tier-appropriate, intentionally limited.
A standing gathering for members who want to think out loud about what they're reading.
Assessment platforms, coaching tools, analytics products that developers want serious practitioners to stress-test before they reach the market. TMC is becoming the place where talent leaders test what's next.
TMC began in 2016 as a community for senior talent leaders — a place to do real work, with real peers, on the questions that matter. Founded out of the Institute for Contemporary Leadership (ICL), the bet was simple: leaders develop most fully through serious peer dialogue, not through lectures.
Our faculty reflects that bet. Most are partners and senior practitioners at our sister firm Contemporary Leadership Advisors (CLA), where they work daily with C-suite executives, boards, and senior leadership teams. Others are independent leading thinkers and academics in the field. Members get current thinking from people who are still in the practice — without anyone in the room trying to sell them anything.
All memberships are by application. We review fit, seniority, and contribution orientation.
For organizations bringing multiple talent leaders into TMC at once. Custom pricing, dedicated relationship management, and tailored value-adds at higher tiers. Contact us to learn more.