Does your compensation plan drive your organization's goals? Popular motivation studies may laude the relational side of our workplaces, but these more intangible influencers assume that the foundation of the social/employment contract--compensation--is solid. Successful HR leaders know the importance of compensation. How does your plan ensure success?

Discover strategies for adapting in a changed business landscape. How do you contain costs while offering competitive rewards? How do you comply with increased regulatory requirements while responding to market pressures? Join leading industry professionals and your colleagues at this full-day conference to exchange creative and practical ideas for successfully reshaping your total rewards agenda.

Conference Facilitator: Valerie Frederickson, CEO, Valerie Frederickson & Company

Agenda

8:00-8:30am Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:30-9:45am
Career Paths: Key to the Employee Value Proposition
Limited visibility to career growth continues to outpace compensation as the number one reason employees voluntarily leave a company. In recent years, with merit budgets downsized dramatically and bonuses shrinking or nonexistent, clearly articulated career paths provide a powerful way to engage employees and reduce unwanted turnover. Design a roadmap for developing career paths and global levelling structures, including a communication and implementation strategy, how and when to involve key stakeholders and how to link a career path structure to critical human resources programs.
Speakers
Camille Alexander, Senior Manager, Total Rewards, Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Brandon Cherry, founding Principal, Presidio Pay Advisors

9:45-10:00am Break

10:00-11:00am
Recent Legal Developments Affecting Compensation
This past year has presented an inordinate amount of changes and challenges brought about by new legislation. Smart compensation professionals know the importance of staying in the know, and thus, compliant. Discover how to handle the myriad of new laws and developments affecting compensation practices today, particularly: the effect of health care reform on compensation, the broad reach of section 409A and the latest on IRS auditing activity.
Speaker
David S. Foster, Partner, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Nixon Peabody LLP

11:00am-12:30pm LUNCH and Moderated Roundtable Discussions
What's for lunch? A great conversation you can turn into an innovative compensation communications strategy. We'll take a look at some recent research, then dive in and uncover what drives effectiveness.
Moderator: Margaret O'Hanlon, re:Think Consulting

12:30-1:30pm
Strategic Compensation: Optimize Your Compensation Dollars to Deliver Great Results
Adapting to the new realities of today requires our businesses to make profound changes in strategy. Yet our compensation programs remain grounded in assumptions and practices that may no longer be relevant. Address this disconnect and improve corporate and employee performance, enhance engagement and retention of high-performing employees, and help attract more of the "right" talent to your organization. Learn a practical framework for optimizing compensation dollars, and discover how best-in-class organizations have improved results.
Speaker
Laird Post, Principal & Human Capital Management Practice Leader, Booz & Company


1:30-1:45pm Break

1:45-3:00pm
Rewards Transformation: An Evolving Framework for an Uncertain World
At a time of challenge and rapid change in the world of employee rewards, this presentation offers a roadmap to emerging thinking, strategies and practices on various aspects of pay and performance management. Based on Towers Watson's latest global research, you'll discover the latest trends on incentives, salary administration and job evaluation, plus gain strategies to address the increasing levels of concern regarding compensation programs and job structures for the slowly evolving economic recovery and the long-term need to compete for talent.

Speaker
Rick Beal, Account Director and Senior Consultant, Towers Watson

3:00-4:30pm
Compensation Realities: Total Rewards Strategies from Titans in the Field
After a full day of world class speakers covering best practices in compensation, how will you prioritize what you've learned? Quickly learn and laugh your way to a successful end of an action-packed day. Hear from four total rewards executives who have collectively set pay strategies for approximately 300,000 employees in over 100 countries. Discover what worked well, and not so well, at their leading companies and take away ideas you can implement immediately back at your company, including how to:

• Identify which programs to implement based on what works for your organization
  
• Negotiate with your boards and CEOs for controversial pay and equity increases
  
• Apply the "sniff test" - when to take attrition and disengagement threats seriously and what to do about them
  
• Prioritize a myriad of compensation "problems" and decipher which to focus on first

Panelists
Allan Brown, Director, Compensation & Analytics, Marvell Technology Group Ltd.

Tom Ezrin, Vice President, Global Compensation, Benefits & Mobility, Flextronics International Ltd.

Jorge Glascock, Senior Director, Compensation, Benefits, and HR Operations, Genentech

Jing Liao, Vice President, Global Human Resources, Atmel Corporation

Moderator: Valerie Frederickson, Valerie Frederickson & Company, an HR Services Firm

Special thanks to our Advisory Committee: Valerie Frederickson, CEO, Valerie Frederickson & Company; Tom Taylor, Compensation Consultant, Tom Taylor Consulting


Speaker Biographies
Camille Alexander is Sr. Manager, Total Rewards at Gilead Sciences, where she supports the global SG&A organization with all strategic compensation related projects, analyses and inquiries and program administration and serves as the project lead on the ongoing career path and global levelling structure initiatives. Camille joined Gilead Sciences as part of the Company's $1.4 billion acquisition of CV Therapeutics, Inc. where she participated in the pre- and post-merger integration of CV Therapeutics' employees and compensation programs.

Rick Beal, an attorney and consultant, is an Account Director and Senior Consultant for Towers Watson. Rick provides total rewards and executive compensation consulting assistance to for-profit and not-for-profit companies throughout the Pacific Rim. Rick's clients are in the finance, insurance, technology, research, construction-engineering, bio-technology, retail, food and beverage, professional service, and quasi-governmental sectors. Prior to entering consulting, Rick worked in litigation, strategy, tax and financial roles in banking, government and healthcare.

Brandon Cherry is a founding Principal with Presidio Pay Advisors, where he assists clients with the design and implementation of all components of compensation. Brandon helps senior management, Boards of Directors, and Compensation Committees define their total compensation strategies and align these strategies with competitive compensation packages. Prior to Presidio Pay, Brandon worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Global Human Resources Solutions, designing and implementing global compensation and equity solutions for domestic and international employees.

David S. Foster, is a Partner, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation at Nixon Peabody LLP. After clerking in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, David practiced with Debevoise & Plimpton in New York City, gaining broad experience in employee benefits and international taxation. David served in the U.S. Treasury Department and was the first chief Treasury Department spokesman for the pension legislation which became the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.

Valerie Frederickson, M.S., CMF, is the CEO of Valerie Frederickson & Company, the human resource executive search, consulting and outplacement firm she founded in 1995. She has earned a reputation as an expert on HR career development issues and was deemed one of "the top business thinkers in the country" by the San Francisco Chronicle. Valerie is the author of Folio: The Most Comprehensive Career Transition Manual and a regular speaker at numerous HR conferences.

Margaret O'Hanlon launched re:Think Consulting to collaborate with clients on creative HR and organizational communication solutions to complex business problems. Previously, Margaret was a principal with Towers Perrin, where she specialized in change management and total rewards communications. In addition to targeted Human Resource initiatives, her assignments have included mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, downsizing and relocation. Her clients have regional, national and global business commitments.

Laird Post is Principal & Human Capital Management Practice Leader at Booz & Company where he leads a national team who deliver leading-edge talent, leadership and change management solutions to Fortune 500 organizations. Laird is a recognized thought leader and speaker on achieving competitive advantage through effective leadership and human capital management practices. Prior to Booz & Company, Laird worked at Buck Consultants where he spearheaded the turnaround of an office of 70 HR professionals.

Cancellation Policy: No refund or credit after the cancellation deadline: 09/28/10.