Pearl Meyer Unscripted

A podcast for straight talk

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Real challenges, real solutions
Pearl Meyer Unscripted dives into the real-world challenges and conversations shaping executive compensation and leadership strategy. Forthright, insightful, and sometimes unexpected—this is where we connect the dots between people, purpose, and performance.

Season 1: Revisiting the Incentive Plan Playbook

Ep. 1 Is it Feeling Like Spring 2020?

Compensation committees and consultants are dealing with a wide variety of unknowns.

Ep. 2 Management's Annual Incentive Plans: Stretch Goals or Layups

How to smooth out potential tension between the board and management around rigor of the annual incentive plan targets.

Ep. 3 The Near-Term Problem with Long-Term Forecasting

The pros and cons of several creative ideas that can take the sting out of current long-term incentive plan design challenges.

Ep. 4 Testing Assumptions: Do We Have the Right Metrics?

A conversation on relative metrics, and the merits of correlation analysis to understand if your pay program is aligned to long-term value creation.

Ep. 5 Creating Space for Non-Financial Metrics

When the goal is long-term value creation, does it ever make sense to introduce a non-financial metric?

Ep. 6 From Innovation to Accounting and Back Again

Is it possible to identify and incorporate executive incentive plan metrics that spur innovation?

Season 2: Hot Topics for the Fall Comp Committee Agenda

Ep. 1 Board Governance Is Evolving – Is Your Compensation Committee Keeping Pace?

The evolving purview of the compensation committee and the implications of expanding governance responsibilities.

Ep. 2 Performance-Based Equity Awards and Other LTI Trends

Compensation committees must evaluate performance-based equity awards and other long-term incentive plan design trends to fit with the current macro-economic environment.
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