Executive Compensation Consulting
Create a competitive advantage. Drive long-term success.
Compensation committees and CEOs share a fundamental goal: building and rewarding high performance management teams. We help you align dynamic executive compensation design with your long-range business and talent management goals.
How Pearl Meyer helps
companies realize exceptional performance.
Get the core responsibility right
Compensation committees must put forth an executive pay plan that attracts, retains, motivates, and rewards—and one that is fair, ethical, transparent, and clearly communicated.
Think boldly and with purpose
Consider not only the current and long-range business goals in your compensation plan design, but also how it influences your broader leadership strategy for ultimate individual and organizational performance.
Maintain an edge
Achieving financial goals, transformational milestones, and a positive culture with an engaged and high performing management team will always set you apart from the competition.
Create catalysts for change
Compensation can impact behavior. We help you ensure the right people are in the right positions and doing the right things to achieve success.
Approach & Partnership
Our Services
Strategic Review
- Short-, medium-, and long-term business goals
- Compensation philosophy
- Leadership profiles
- Historical performance assessment
Compensation Alignment
- Value-driver analysis
- Goal-setting and metric selection
- Dynamic pay modeling; probability and pay leverage analysis
- Pay-for-performance analysis
- Short- and long-term incentive plan design
Market Evaluation
- Peer group selection
- Competitive analysis
- Market-based pay studies
- Contracts, severance, and change-in-control agreements
- Executive benefits and perquisites
Compliance Confidence
- Share plan authorization
- SEC and regulatory advice
- Pay versus Performance calculation
- ISS/Glass Lewis expertise
- Institutional shareholders policies and practices review
Communication
- Plan documentation
- Disclosure requirements
- CD&A development
- Shareholder and stakeholder communication
Meet the Expert
Jannice Koors
Senior Managing Director | Chicago
Jan Koors is a senior managing director with Pearl Meyer and head of consulting services. In this role, Jan is focused on leveraging the firm’s consulting capabilities and enhancing relationships with our national marketing partners. She is a member of the leadership team which guides the firm’s strategy.
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We work with directors and executives to improve individual leadership effectiveness and create high-performance boards and management teams.
Pearl Meyer is a powerhouse of both survey and proxy data. Our survey team produces over 50 annual compensation surveys and our partner, Main Data Group, offers public company governance and compensation data.