Rhonda has over 25 years of human resources experience in both consulting and human resource management roles working with small and mid-sized organizations. She has an extensive background in designing salary structures, performance incentive and sales compensation plans, as well as the assessment of executive and director compensation for private companies. Her strengths include salary structure development, incentive plan design, and performance management programs that focus on driving the business strategy of the organization. Rhonda has worked with private and public companies and organizations in the technology, professional services, insurance, consumer products, healthcare, and utilities industries, designing and implementing programs that strengthen the foundation of the business.

Rhonda earned her Master’s degree from Springfield College and Bachelor’s degree from the University of New Hampshire. She has co-authored numerous surveys and publications while at Wilson Group. She is a Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) through WorldatWork, a member of the Board of Directors for the New England Compensation Consortium, and former president of the New Hampshire Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development (now known as the Association for Talent Development). Prior to consulting, Rhonda’s human resource management experience included partnering with senior management to handle company restructuring/reorganization, compensation and benefit program management, and training design and implementation.

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Susan brings over 25 years in consulting and leadership positions in compensation and human resources to her clients. Susan advises boards of directors, executives and leaders in sales, human resources and compensation functions on the strategic application of total reward programs. She works with a broad range of public, private and non-profit clients in technology, industrial, and service sectors throughout the country in the assessment, design and implementation of sales, executive and employee compensation programs.

Prior to consulting, Susan worked in leadership positions at General Cinema Theatres, Aetna Inc., Barclays Business Credit and Community Newspaper Company. She has co-authored and published several publications with other members of Wilson Group. Susan earned her master’s degree in labor and industrial relations from Michigan State University and a bachelor’s degree in human resources from Ithaca College. Susan is a Certified Compensation Professional (CCP), Certified Benefits Professional (CBP) and a Global Remuneration Professional (GRP) through WorldatWork and a member of the New England Compensation Consortium and the Milwaukee Area Compensation Association. Susan was an Adjunct Faculty member in Human Resources at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.

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Lisa has 20 years’ experience in professional services firms in coordinating project activities, facilitating communications and providing a high level of service and quality to clients. Lisa’s expertise includes collecting and analyzing client and external market data and preparing customized compensation and employee engagement surveys. In her role at Wilson Group, Lisa manages internal operations, administrative services and website, and provides analytical support in the assessment and design of client employee and executive compensation programs.

Lisa is a member of WorldatWork and the New England Compensation Consortium. She previously worked for Sherbrooke Partners, Cartier and Zale Corporation. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Jean Riley has over 25 years of experience in compensation design and human resources management.  She has held leadership positions in several organizations and has provided consulting services to various types of organizations including, financial services, non-profit, retail and technology companies. Most recently, Jean was the Vice President of Compensation at Santander Bank overseeing executive and staff compensation programs for approximately 10,000 employees. Prior to this, Jean worked for McLagan where she managed the compensation consulting practice for banking clients in the Northeast.

Jean earned her bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Fitchburg State University. Jean is a Certified Compensation Professional (CCP), through WorldatWork and a member of the New England Compensation Consortium.

Valerie has over 30 years’ experience in compensation design and management. She has held leadership positions in international organizations including financial services and hospitality. Most recently, Valerie was the Vice President and Principal Consultant to the Asset Servicing business at BNY Mellon managing all compensation programs for the business. Prior to this, Valerie was the Director of Sales Compensation for CIT designing the worldwide global sales and incentive compensation strategies and managing the development of the Company’s sales plans. Prior leadership positions include directing the Compensation function for the America’s region of InterContinental Hotels Group and as Head of Compensation for SunTrust Banks.

Valerie earned her bachelor’s degree in Psychology and History from Cedar Crest College and is also a graduate of the Dale Carnegie Institute Program. She is a Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) through WorldatWork.

John Malanowski is an executive coach and broad-based human resource consultant. He has experience as a global Chief People Officer in early-stage start-up companies to accelerate operational performance and organizational effectiveness. He is an expert in the areas of organizational design, strategy development and implementation, and sustainable transformational leadership. He brings practical, hands-on experience into a variety of organizational settings and industries with a talent for listening and hearing the real issues that are at play in an organization. With the increasing prevalence of CEO turnover, John brings together compensation, executive search and development resources to enable Boards of Directors to strategically plan for, fill and develop future Chief Executive Officers.

During a career spanning over 40 years, he has had diverse experience implementing performance driven business and human capital strategies and solutions for private equity and founder led firms as well as large public and private fortune 100 corporations in healthcare, technology, government contractors, consumer products, insurance and utilities. He is highly valued for his insights into situations and is frequently sought out for his ability to frame solutions to complex problems, inspire and motivate clients to address them, and advise and coach on implementation.

In addition to human resources consulting, he also specializes in providing interim CHRO/CXO services to fast growing early-stage private companies helping to accelerate the build out of operating and talent infrastructures. He also supports a number of clients through focused performance based executive coaching interventions designed to create high performance cultures that deliver practical, measurable results.

John holds a Master of Labor and Industrial Relations from Michigan State University School and a Bachelor of Science, Magna Cum Laude, from the State University of New York College at Buffalo.