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Compensation
We help organizations align compensation with business strategy. We often work for compensation committees of boards in helping them design and monitor management compensation programs. As stated earlier, we believe that we are particularly qualified to help an organization design programs that provide a return on management compensation investment. We also insure that management compensation is in alignment with shareholder goals.

We possess in-depth understanding of and experience in:
» Base salary programs
» Annual incentives
» Drafting of plan documents and participant communications
» Long term performance incentives including stock option programs
» Restricted stock, performance shares and other forms of full value stock grants
» Stock options
» Special situation incentives for IPOs, spin-offs, LBOs, LLCs, partnerships, bankruptcies,     turn-arounds, mergers & acquisitions and new ventures
» Deferred compensation and capital accumulation programs
» Supplementary retirement income and other executive benefits
» Development, negotiation and drafting of senior executive employment contracts
» Marketplace compensation surveys

Management Assessment / Executive Coaching
We provide management assessment and executive coaching with a unique perspective as compared to most of our contemporaries. While we have expertise in the latest analytical tools, and we often use them, we also add real-world experience. When we assess managers, we look for what will be successful “on the ground” in our client company, with its unique environment and culture. Therefore, we complete an extensive review on a company's market position, business plans and work flow as a foundation for management assessment.

Corporate Governance and Director Compensation
This practice grew from our work with boards on management and director compensation. We advise boards in the following areas:
» Director duties, accountabilities, and liabilities
» Committee makeup and accountabilities
» Board compensation
» Compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley
» Director selection
» Board performance evaluations

Organizational Development
We work with organizations to improve their performance through:
» Strategy/structure linkage
» Improving execution through organizational design
» Development of management accountabilities
» Performance management systems

Due Diligence Services
Our professional consultants have many combined decades of senior consulting experience and many years of operations management experience. The consulting and management experiences have involved a great deal of due diligence on potential acquisitions, and successfully merging businesses, cultures, and managers. This team has also developed a wealth of knowledge around the pitfalls of not adequately analyzing the human resource variables before acquiring or merging businesses. Our due diligence process includes a review of discrete areas we have found most critical for successful acquisitions/mergers.