Compensation: What I Should Know, What I Should Ask For and How I Can Maximize My Income and Wealth Throughout My Career | 0.1 MSP Credit

In this session, we will review the various forms of compensation including salary, cash incentives, equity, benefits and perquisites. You will learn what each is worth to you over time, how you can maximize the long-term value for yourself, and how you make sure you are on track to participate in various wealth accumulation programs. RSVP Required.

We will identify the questions you should ask and things that you should push for at the time of a job offer and at your annual review. We will explore decisions you must make and how to put yourself in the best position to enjoy opportunities for income growth. We will also identify the potential pitfalls to avoid when changing jobs.

Graduation Credit
All Johnson School students are eligible to use up to 1.5 credit hours from Leadership Skills Program and/or Managerial Skills Program credits toward the MBA degree credit-hour requirements.
 

Speaker Profile: Mr. Brian Dunn

Brian Dunn retired as the Chairman of McLagan and the CEO of Performance, Reward & Talent for Aon Hewitt Consulting Worldwide at the end of 2015. In 2016 he served as a special advisor to the Vatican where he developed plans for a new HR function and helped create an executive development program for Vatican leaders. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Silvercrest Asset Management where he is Chairman of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Governance and Audit Committees. He is also a Board Member of Spire Technologies and of the Phi Delta Theta Educational Foundation where he is chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Investment Committee. Mr. Dunn has been a lecturer at Cornell University since 2015 where he teaches a course in Executive Compensation. He is a Senior Advisor to the Bank Administration Institute where he moderates bi-annual conferences of the CHROs of the largest US Banks. In addition Mr. Dunn has a number of consulting clients.
Before his retirement, Mr. Dunn was President of McLagan (1998-2011) and then Chairman (2011-2015). From 2003 until 2015 he was CEO of McLagan’s parent company, Aon Hewitt’s Performance, Reward and Talent Business. He specialized in incentive and executive compensation and his compensation committee relationships include Ameriprise, Chicago Board Options Exchange, DTCC, Goldman Sachs, Investment Technology Group, Leerink Swann, M&T Bank, PNC Financial, Regions Financial, Webster Bank and Zions Bancorporation. He also advised management at Axis Capital, Capital One, Cushman and Wakefield, Fannie Mae, First Horizon, JPMorgan Chase, Lincoln Financial, Prudential Financial and US Bancorp. Mr. Dunn also worked with dozens of private firms helping develop partnership and phantom equity plans as well as assisting in creating compensation packages for newly hired executives.

Mr. Dunn was actively involved in shaping the financial services industry’s response to recent developments in the regulatory environment regarding executive compensation. He served as an advisor to several principal regulatory bodies including the United States’ Federal Reserve, Canada’s Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, and the United Kingdom’s Financial Investments Limited. Mr. Dunn is also a special advisor to the Financial Services Roundtable and the Institute of International Finance. 

Mr. Dunn’s articles have been published in Benefits & Compensation Digest, Chief Executive, American Banker, Personnel, ABA Banking Journal, Bankers Magazine, Compensation Planning Journal, Equities, US Banker, Journal of Accountancy and AsiaBanking. He has spoken before the American Society of Personnel Administrators (ASPA), the Conference Board, the New York Chamber of Commerce, the Financial Sector Compensation Models Conference, the Overseas Business Council (Tokyo), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce 
(Hong Kong), the ABA Private Banking Symposium, and the Bank Marketing Association. 

From 1981 until 1998, Mr. Dunn worked at Towers Perrin where he was an executive compensation specialist. In his last role he managed the firms’s eastern region.

Mr. Dunn received a B.S. degree summa cum laude from the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University in 1977 and an M.B.A. with highest honors from the Cornell University Graduate School of Management in 1981.