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A "First Question" starting point that explains how to understand the immediate key steps that can help turnaround a Say on Pay outcome.

Establish an annual calendar and process for Committee meetings throughout the year.

Boards have a lot on their plate right now. They want leaders ready to handle the expanding complexities of corporate life with distributed decision-making, to respond to a rapidly changing business environment.

Semler Brossy Consulting Group has conducted a comprehensive ten-year study on publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) pay programs to understand the evolution of pay trends, emerging practices, and the driving forces underpinning the changes.

Thinking longer-term is difficult when the world turns upside down. Executive pay is no exception. Our focus narrows to the items in front of us and getting past current obstacles. Eventually we focus on getting "back on track" when the existential risk passes or we get used to it, and the new "normal" gets shaped by these prior experiences.

The coronavirus pandemic has upended the key tenets of executive compensation, especially the performance-based incentives that comprise the majority of executive pay.

With widespread protests over persistent racism, many boards of directors are looking for their companies to do more to support racial equity. Here are considerations for different approaches that boards and management teams might pursue.

In an evolving governance environment, expressions of strong corporate character — exemplary corporate governance, responsible stewardship of the environment and positive contributions to society — are no longer nice-to-haves. They are increasingly becoming explicit expectations.

As a resource, we outlined some of the disclosure requirements, as well as formulas for incremental expense values for four major types of performance share modifications.

A new wave of innovation, centered on artificial intelligence, big data analytics, and the internet of things, is now intensifying the pace and magnitude of disruption.

Semler Brossy drives this important incentive pay conversation forward.

Many boards are expanding their succession management oversight to cover the next generation of talent.

While some have described the Covid-19 pandemic as a black swan event, in reality it should be treated as a “black elephant” — a cross between a black swan event and the elephant in the room.