• 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

  • The Wall Street Journal – Companies Swallow $2.1 Billion in Taxes as Executive Pay Climbs

    The ending of tax breaks for executive compensation in 2017 has led to spiraling tax bills for corporations, according to this Wall Street Journal article. But Farient CEO and founder Robin Ferracone, quoted within, says this is a “drop in the bucket” for companies as they navigate a competitive market…

    July 22, 2022 Read more >

  • NACD BoardTalk – How Compensation Committees Are Battling Uncertainty, Talent Woes

    How are compensation committees addressing economic uncertainty and the fierce competition to attract and retain top executive talent? This question was the topic of an NACD event earlier this year featuring Lori Miller, Partner at Farient Advisors, and other esteemed experts in executive compensation. Lori discussed how committees are talking…

    July 22, 2022 Read more >

  • Agenda – Investors Scrutinize ESG-Linked Pay, and Some Say No Way

    As more environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals have been linked to executive pay, investors have become more likely to closely examine pay packages that may involve “greenwashing” – potentially misleading information on these issues. In this Agenda article that cites recent examples, Farient data on Say-on-Pay votes is referenced…

    July 19, 2022 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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Our CEO does a great Q&A w/@Madam-Chair CEO and @digimarc director, @AliciaSyrett) on a variety of topics that BoDs in general & #compcommittees in particular should consider amid rapid changes in #corpgov Check out excerpts from the chat https://bit.ly/3p3GEMn

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Age is just a number as Board Refresh Evolves.@Conferenceboard research says more public corps scrap mandatory retirement policies for BoDs & search for ways to avoid board stagnation, https://bit.ly/3QDpXmJ #corpgov #boardrefresh

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