Pay & Compensation Keynote Speaker for HR Leaders and CHROs
The new pay deal is already here.
Your pay strategy was built for a world that no longer exists. What motivates people, what counts as fair and what has to be transparent have all changed. In this keynote, I show your audience how the future gets paid, and how to lead that change with confidence.
Keynote, workshop or executive session, tailored to your audience.
Where I’ve spoken about pay
- Indeed Futureworks
- SAP Successfactors
- UKG
- Pluxee
What this keynote covers
Benchmark, set ranges, keep it confidential. That playbook is breaking down.
Pay and compensation used to be simple to run: analyze the market, set the ranges and keep the numbers to yourself. Your workforce has moved on. I show what is driving the change, and what it asks of the people who decide on pay.
Beyond market rates
Paying at market used to settle the question. I show why market-competitive thinking is no longer enough, and what leaders have to add to it.
One workforce, many deals
Pay now has to work across generations, geographies and skill markets. I show where a single pay philosophy stretches, and where it breaks.
Secrecy or transparency
Pay secrecy has hidden costs, and transparency has real ones. I show what each one costs you, and how to decide how open to be.
What fair means
Everyone defines fair pay differently. I show how to balance internal equity with external competitiveness when the data conflicts and emotions run high.
The thread through all four: pay has become a signal of your values, a driver of trust and a public statement about fairness. The first thing to change is behind the scenes: how pay decisions are made, governed and explained.
What your audience takes away
Clarity on a topic where emotions run high.
Pay is emotionally charged and politically sensitive, and I don’t promise easy answers. Your audience gets a clear view of what is changing and of the decisions that follow. This is a strategic session for the people who make those decisions.
It comes from experience. I spent more than 20 years inside compensation design, payroll and HR technology, so I know what breaks when theory meets a real organization. I also wrote Equal Pay for Equal Work, a practical playbook for running a pay transparency program.
- How pay is evolving, and which changes are inevitable and which are optional
- The questions to ask before you modernize your compensation approach
- The common mistakes in modernizing rewards, and how to avoid them
- Where pay meets trust, culture and leadership credibility
- A framework for better pay decisions in your own context
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Is this right for your event?
For leaders who decide how people get paid.
It works as a standalone keynote, or as a deep dive after a Future of Work session that takes the conversation into pay and rewards.
Who it’s for
- CHROs and senior HR leaders rethinking compensation for the modern workforce
- Compensation and benefits leaders caught between regulatory pressure and budget constraints
- Executive teams who need to understand why pay has become a strategic issue
- Global organizations managing pay across markets and regulations
Where it works
- Compensation and rewards conferences
- CHRO summits and executive sessions
- Board-level discussions
- As a deep dive after a Future of Work keynote
The practical side
- Length
- 30 to 45 minutes as a conference keynote. Workshops and executive sessions run longer.
- Interaction
- A classic keynote, with Q&A, or with live polling and discussion
- Tailoring
- Your industry, your region and where your audience is in its transformation
- Delivery
- In person or virtual
- Language
- English and Dutch
- Regions
- Global and local events
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See the Payroll keynote →Each topic works as a standalone keynote, or combined into one narrative for your event.
Have a date in mind?Let’s see if I’m free.
Tell me about your event and your audience. You get an answer within two business days, and your date is held at no cost.
Organizing a conference or summit? Formats and preparation are on the page for event organizers, and my bio, photos and intro text are in the speaker kit.