Biography

Lisa Shall is a managing director at Pearl Meyer. She has deep expertise in leadership assessment and coaching, organizational design, CEO and executive succession, executive team development, change management, and talent management processes. She has experience transforming talent and implementing organizational effectiveness initiatives across a wide range of companies and industries. Her clients have included both public and privately held companies in the retail, financial services, healthcare, nonprofit, and consumer products sectors.

Before joining Pearl Meyer, Lisa was an associate partner at The River Group, a boutique consulting firm that specialized in executive development, CEO succession, and organizational transformation. Before joining the River Group, Lisa served as a talent management leader for Northwell Health, a large tri-state area integrated health system. Previously, Lisa was a consultant at Korn/ Ferry International, where she served clients and managed engagements across the areas of executive assessment, onboarding, high-potential leadership development, organizational design, and culture transformation. She also served as a management consultant for Accenture in the Talent and Organizational Performance space, with experience in change management strategy, training strategy, organization impact assessment, stakeholder analysis, and communications planning.

Lisa earned a master’s degree in social-organizational psychology from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Biography

Wes Hart is a managing director and consulting team leader at Pearl Meyer. In his management role, he oversees a team of senior compensation consultants in the execution of the firm’s growth strategy and in the development of consultants at various stages in their careers. He has over 25 years’ experience advising clients in the assessment and development of executive compensation programs, including competitive pay and performance analyses, and extensive experience in the design of annual, long-term, and other incentive plans. Wes has performed work for clients in a wide variety of industries with a focus on energy, energy transition, clean technologies, financial services, and healthcare.

Prior to joining Pearl Meyer, Wes was a manager in the executive compensation practice at Buck Consultants and held positions at Mercer Human Resource Consulting and the KPMG Compensation and Benefits Group.

Wes has an MBA in finance and behavioral science from the University of Chicago, an MS in mechanical engineering from Southern Methodist University, and a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Oklahoma, Summa Cum Laude. He is a member of WorldatWork and the National Association of Stock Plan Professionals (NASPP) and is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Texas Tri-cities Chapter (Houston, Austin, and San Antonio) of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).

Biography

Sharon Podstupka is a managing director at Pearl Meyer. She is a trusted advisor to boards and executive management teams in the areas of executive and broad-based employee compensation communication and change management. With over 25 years of consulting experience, she is one of the original pioneers of executive compensation disclosure best practices and has proven success in creating effective strategies and delivering content in challenging business environments and under intense scrutiny from investors and proxy advisory firms. Sharon has extensive experience in a broad range of industries, including financial services, manufacturing, oil and energy, retail, biopharma/biotech, and healthcare.

Sharon joined Pearl Meyer in 2013 after 17 years at Towers (Perrin) Watson, where she served as a director in the talent and rewards segment and led the executive compensation communications services team for the Americas. Prior to that, she was a compensation and benefits administrator and communication specialist at EMI-Capitol Music Group.

Sharon is a popular conference panelist at major industry events, including those hosted by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), Women Corporate Directors (WCD), and WorldatWork. She frequently contributes to industry publications including Workspan, Corporate Board Member, and CompensationStandards.com, and has also been quoted by the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Business, and Agenda.

She holds a BA in communication from the New York Institute of Technology.