• We Are the Finely Tuned Executive Compensation Strategists

    Like musicians hitting the perfect notes, executive compensation requires the finesse of a fine orchestra, and each instrument needs to perform at its optimal best.

    We are experts in executive compensation, performance, environmental, social, and governance consulting. Our professionals have provided innovative compensation solutions to clients for more than 30 years. We are your global experts in linking compensation to talent development, succession, and aligning investor and stakeholder interests.

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  • The Overture of Compensation: Pay and Performance Alignment

    Nothing hits a crescendo like compensation headlines in the news. Highly paid doesn’t mean over paid. Farient Advisors wrote the definitive book on pay and performance alignment.

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  • Stakeholder Incentives: The New Baseline for Investors

    Investors care about stakeholders and boards and management need to care about them, too. Stakeholders may stand alone or be part of an ensemble. They want to be heard irrespective of where a firm is on its journey to define and reach ESG goals.

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  • High Notes and Low Notes:
    Why Is Goal Setting So Hard?

    Of all the design features of compensation, goal setting has the most significant impact on alignment. Striking the right chord between measures and goals is essential to motivate executives and be accretive to investors and other stakeholders. Farient Advisors’ experienced perspectives make striking that goal-setting chord less of a challenge.

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  • The Ultimate Movement: Transactions

    Whether it’s a merger, acquisition, spin-off, pre- or post-IPO, or SPAC transaction, we’ve been there and done that. We understand how executive compensation, change-in-control provisions, and other dynamics can impact a transaction. And, in fast-paced transactions such as IPOs and SPACs no one wants the newly minted millionaires walking out the door.

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  • Pitch Perfect: Strategic Communications

    Farient Advisors knows how to communicate the compensation governance narrative to our clients’ constituencies—including shareholders and other stakeholders, proxy advisors, and the press. Director and say on pay votes—and possibly soon, say on climate—are becoming de facto sounding boards for all-things ESG.

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About Farient Advisors

Founded in 2007, Farient Advisors is a leading independent compensation, performance, and governance consultancy dedicated to assisting clients in designing and delivering executive compensation programs that support their business objectives, talent strategy, and value creation platforms, and are consistent with standards of good governance.

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Our Approach

Farient Advisors tailors our approach to clients’ specific needs. Our consultants ask pointed questions about business strategy, stakeholder needs, and the overarching strategic goals of our client’s company to help determine the alignment of pay and performance that best serves their interests.

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Our Clients

Farient Advisors’ clients run the gamut from the largest publicly traded global companies to private equity firms, family-owned businesses, and private companies. Across industries, we bring independent, reliable, and transparent advice on executive compensation, performance, and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues.

 

Latest Insights

  • CEO Wealth Dropped 20% Last Year — Here’s Who Lost the Most—Agenda

    With market turmoil over the past year depressing equity values and impacting equity-based CEO pay, boards may consider revisiting compensation plans with an eye on retaining chief executives. Not surprising, shareholders who have also seen a decline in the value of their shares may be inclined to object to any…

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  • NACD BoardTalk – Leading Directors and Experts Reflect on 2022, Discuss Top Business Trends to Come

    2023 has the potential to be an economically turbulent year—and compensation committees need to be prepared for anything. At NACD’s “Leading Minds of Governance” program in December, board members and top governance experts, including Farient’s Dayna Harris, discussed how compensation committees can put the right pay program in place…

    January 24, 2023 Read more >

  • Executive Compensation: An Analysis Identifies ESG Leaders and Laggards

    Understanding what distinguishes corporate leaders from laggards in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) realm provides important guidance on emerging best practices for boards. In this fast-moving arena, Farient Advisors identified a small group of companies who stand out as leaders in incorporating stakeholder measures into their executive compensation plans.

    January 19, 2023 Read more >

Connect With Us

Contact us for more information on how we can help your compensation committee reduce complexity, navigate pay and performance alignment, and enhance shareholder and stakeholder communications strategies.

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  • Farient’s recommendations on goal-setting methodology really took us to a new level.

    – CEO of publicly traded client

  • Farient has really helped us raise our game.

    – Compensation Committee Chair of Fortune 500 client

  • Your insights about the industry really helped us think about strategy, not just compensation.

    – CEO of privately-held client

  • Farient is helping us run the best Compensation Committee meetings we’ve ever had.

    – Compensation Committee member of publicly-traded client

  • Farient designed highly impactful incentive compensation arrangements for several of our portfolio companies. They get the job done quickly, thoughtfully and efficiently. Lots of substance and no fluff.

    – Managing Director, private equity firm

Trackers

What if many of the data comparisons you need were in one place? Now they are. Our proprietary suite of Trackers put you one click away from aggregated proxy information. Slice and dice by company size and industry to gain quick insights into your company, industry, and peers.  The Tracker suite includes our Say on Pay Tracker (™), CEO Pay Ratio Tracker(™), Wealth Tracker(™), and introducing our CEO Pay Tracker(™) and ESG Tracker(™).

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