Leadership Pay

Your leadership pay strategy starts with one goal; to reward your leaders fairly in today’s dynamic business landscape. It must be attractive to top talent, contemporary, and transparent. And it must align with your business strategy and purpose. Rather than fixating on benchmarking your competitors, we invest time with management and the board to understand your organization. We get to know your goals, your purpose, your business, your people. We combine this knowledge with our deep understanding of what motivates today’s leaders to help you develop a pay philosophy and strategy that supports your mission, reflects your organization’s culture, and properly values your people’s contribution.

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Once you have a pay philosophy that aligns to your business strategy, we help you put it into practice. We start by holding your new philosophy up against your current executive pay program. See what needs to change to reach your goals, drive shareholder value, and positively impact the day-to-day behavior of the management team. We make recommendations, aligned to the critical presenting issues for your business, on base compensation, annual or long-term incentives, and critical issues such as performance measurement, performance management, executive employment provisions and governance - with a forecast on what the realized value could look like for your leaders in practice. The outcome is a program design that better reflects your core values as a company and speaks more to what you outline as your purpose.

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Corporate Boards operate in a dynamic and evolving corporate governance landscape. There are considerable legal demands on you to make sure that internal practices are current, competitive, and compliant. We steer you through the implications of your new package from an accounting, tax, and governance perspective. Offering expert understanding of current and future compliance considerations. This helps you make smarter, more informed decisions and avoid unexpected pitfalls when you put your plan into action.

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When you have a plan that aligns with your strategy and values, is compliant, and fair, it will be time to implement it. The first phase of this is communicating it with care. The plan must be straightforward, transparent, and clear. It must use plain, simple language to communicate the value to all stakeholders. We work with you to make sure that everyone understands what the plan delivers, how success is measured, and how payout conditions are met. We help your executives and Board through the changes, get everyone’s buy-in and commitment. Then when you are ready, we guide you through communicating with the rest of the business. So that everyone in your organization understands that your leadership pay strategy is aligned with your values as a company.

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