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"Companies want boards to maintain a longer-term perspective on strategy, which accounts for the trend we're seeing requiring longer holding periods before directors can cash out company stock," Ryan Hourihan, principal for Pearl Meyer told SHRM.
"All companies are focused on diversity," Deborah Lifshey, managing director at Pearl Meyer. "We don't have any clients that haven't talked about diversity in the boardroom."
“Since it’s a complicated process to attempt to recoup (clawback) money once it has been paid out, a lot of companies, rather than granting things now, are doing it over a longer period of time, so the payments are spread out and they can stop [payments] if needed.”
“While investors probably take issue with any increased personal use of company planes, increased business use of company-owned aircraft isn’t subject to disclosure requirements,” said managing director Deborah Lifshey.
“The world is a lot different than it was last proxy season. As a result, diversity, equity, and inclusion are taking up a lot more bandwidth in boardrooms,” said Jannice Koors, senior managing director and Western region president at Pearl Meyer.