Farient Briefings February 2025 | Navigating Uncertainty As Proxy Season 2025 Unfolds

February 13, 2025

Navigating Uncertainty
As Proxy Season 2025 Unfolds

 

Changes are coming fast. The 2025 US proxy season will be a pivotal time for public companies to demonstrate their commitment to transparency, accountability, and effective governance. Companies can build trust with investors and stakeholders by addressing the alignment between executive compensation and company performance; enhancing disclosures related to AI, cybersecurity, and equity grants; and responding to evolving expectations in human capital management and ESG initiatives. Proactive engagement with shareholders and robust governance practices will be essential for companies to thrive in a highly unpredictable and rapidly changing political environment.

Here are the key issues along with Farient’s perspectives.

 

highrise buildings at nighttime, signifying proxy season

 

 


Magic Ingredients for Employee Engagement

 

Farient UK Partner Simon Patterson talks to Diana Fayad, International Total Rewards Leader at GE Vernova, which employs approximately 75,000 people in 100-plus countries. Diana shared the importance of employee recognition to company culture and talent retention.

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Where to Find Us

 

NACD Board Leadership Exchange

March 13, 2025

Washington, DC

 

NACD Leading Minds of Governance

April 30, 2025

Atlanta, GA

 

For more information about these events, please email us at info@farient.com.

 

 


Understanding Climate Incentives

 

Exclusive: Around the globe, the heat is on to combat climate change while some political regimes denounce the veracity between greenhouse gas emissions and a warming planet. Nevertheless, large corporations are reporting Scope 1, Scope 2, and, increasingly, Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions and linking reductions to executive compensation, according to Farient Advisors’ newly published 2025 Global Trends in Stakeholder Incentives: Climate Strategies and Incentives for Corporate Sustainability.

Learn more about how the world’s largest companies are setting and achieving climate goals by linking climate measures to executive incentives by sector and geography.

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About Farient Advisors 

Farient Advisors LLC is an independent premier executive compensation, performance, and corporate governance consultancy. Farient provides a full array of services, linking business strategy to compensation through a tailored, analytically rigorous, and collaborative approach. Farient has locations in Los Angeles, New York, and London and works with clients globally through its partnership in the Global Governance and Executive Compensation (GECN) Group. Farient is a certified diverse company and is recognized by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council.

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