The Empower Network and Lean Staffing Institute are sister companies. The Empower Network provides back office recruiting support for Global 1000 employers. The Lean Staffing Institute provides consulting and professional development support for HR departments looking to fully optimize their internal staffing function. These ventures were founded on the belief that corporate recruiting costs too much, takes too long, and the outcomes are too unreliable.We exist to help employers build more cost effective and reliable internal staffing functions.

We Are Different

The staffing function is one of the most immature and least governed business processes within the corporate environment. This is the largest, most visible and most mobile workforce in the history of the US economy so identifying candidates should not be difficult. Recruiting costs 2-3x what it should, but we believe that staffing and recruitment is a recurring business process that should become less expensive and more reliable over time.

A New Approach

By focusing on the organization as a whole, from the C-Level Executives to the Hiring Managers - the Dow Group is able to identify the hidden cracks that are leading to this organizational dysfunction and establish processes that can be sustained long-term to continually deliver cost savings, high quality and satisfied employees, and instilling the confidence that leads to success.

Consulting

We choose client companies that fall into one of two categories–
1. They have unique recruiting challenges with no other choice but to address
2. They have a top down mandate from the C-Suite to make their talent acquisition function a competitive advantage.

We work fast. We are blunt. And we get results.