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Our experts provide valuable insight on emerging issues and developing trends in all aspects of compensation and leadership. Explore our most recent published content below.
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Regulatory Issues and Compensation Trends Going into 2025
Reflecting on 2024 and guiding committees into the new year and a new proxy season.
Is Your Board's Compensation Risk Assessment Doing Enough?
How and why to conduct a more in-depth compensation risk assessment than is typical.
Compensation Peer Groups: Everything You Need to Know Right Now
Practical tips for structuring compensation peer groups and using the data to inform executive compensation decisions.
New Year, New Data: Digging in to the Latest Director Compensation Study
Evaluate your board’s compensation levels and practices against the market.
Director Compensation and Board Assessment: Two Tools for Driving Board Excellence
How can directors build and maintain a high performance board with a positive culture as the foundation?
The Compensation Committee Agenda: Focusing on the Fall
Directors must be focused on the basics, while watching for emerging issues. In this webcast we discuss four key themes that may rise to the agenda level this fall.
The Proxies are Done: Putting Pay vs Performance in Perspective
Most public companies now have comparative ratios between executive pay and corporate performance as defined by the SEC rule. But what does it all mean?
The Key to Executive Retention
Effective, long-term retention of your hard-won top talent requires a multitude of intertwined actions that ideally begin at the hiring stage.
Pay Versus Performance is Here: What Compensation Committees Must Do Now
How companies can take immediate action to collect the information and create the narratives around this data-heavy requirement.
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Our experts dive into the real-world challenges and conversations shaping executive compensation and leadership strategy. Forthright, insightful, and sometimes unexpected—this is where we connect the dots between people, purpose, and performance.
Evergreen Content
This library brings together foundational thinking on topics—from cultural transformation and pay equity to incentive innovation and succession planning. These are timeless resources built to inform, guide, and future‑proof decision‑making.
New Directions for Director Pay
Boards, primarily focused on their fiduciary responsibilities, often overlook their compensation. Yet, like executive pay, board compensation can drive value. Strategic pay structures are crucial for attracting and retaining directors who enhance a visionary board sensitive to risks and opportunities, thus boosting organization's success.
Private Companies
We offer experience and guidance that helps private organizations attract, motivate, and develop the talent that will move your strategy forward.
Executive Compensation Essentials
These articles are intended to provide actionable insights through a grounding in the fundamentals and nuances of executive compensation.
Tax-Exempt Executive Compensation Essentials
Foundational guidance for both new and experienced professionals responsible for tax-exempt executive compensation.