About Us
Our 25+ years of diverse and executive-level experience in Talent Acquisition & Management spans a variety of industries including creative, technical, manufacturing, professional services, municipal, non-profit and beyond.
Our team reflects that diversity in perspective... but each of us reached the same conclusions on our own:
There has to be a better, more durable and systematic way of identifying, engaging, and hiring top talent.
We need to think about recruiting as a marketing exercise because candidates are consumers.
The greatest factor in achieving corporate success will actually be winning the war for great talent.
TalentCMO Leadership
Founder and CEO
Austin Meyermann
Austin is an entrepreneur, author, inventor, and speaker. He is the CEO and Founder of TalentCMO.
Austin has over a decade of experience in delivering talent acquisition innovation to clients of all sizes and across multiple business sectors. He and his co-founder have overseen 15,000 hires and have an aggregate of 25+ years of experience in talent acquisition and management.
In addition to founding TalentCMO, Austin also founded Hunter Crown, a boutique executive search firm specializing in the clean water and energy sectors. He also founded Environmental Site Solutions, LLC, a turnkey service provider of comprehensive environmental solutions to site and facility owners/operators worldwide and SideDoor Strategies, LLC, an educational resources company dedicated to helping students achieve their higher education dreams using low debt strategies.
Austin is a graduate of Cornell University where he majored in Agricultural and Biological Engineering – Environmental Systems Technology.
Co-founder, VP Program development & Execution
Allison Small, SPHR
Allison is the former Vice President of Human Resources for Discovery Communications, a global media enterprise with 70+ entertainment brands reaching consumers in 220+ countries (NASDAQ: DISCA). With 15+ years of experience across all facets of Human Resources both in the U.S. and internationally, Allison has broad experience in both business partner and specialist roles working in a variety of industries. At Discovery, Allison proposed, created, and led its first centralized talent acquisition function.
Allison has also held HR/M&A roles at Antenna Audio, Human Resources International, and Western Publishing, as well as high volume recruiting and ultimately regional P&L responsibility at Manpower International.
Allison is a graduate of Boston College where she obtained a BA in Psychology, and has her MBA from The George Washington University.