Steve Samek’s career has spanned 49 years. He is a CPA by training and has been the CEO of several companies ranging from a 20,000 employee, Multi Billion $ Global Big 6 accounting firm to a publically held consulting firm and several highly successful entrepreneurial startups. He has written 7 books covering a variety of business topics including strategic planning, profit improvement techniques, and business forecasting. The most notable was the New York Times best seller, “Cracking the Value Code “ released in 2000 that identified successful techniques for companies and transforming industries in the dawn of the knowledge age In the then “New Millennial”. For 15 years Steve worked closely with the NAW and was the original author of the NAW’s “Facing the Forces Of Change” series. Steve is currently focused on helping entrepreneurial companies navigate their way from start up through the growth phase and mature companies facing significant transformation issues. His passion is helping midmarket firms (and their CEO’s, Owners, & Key Executives) transform their companies & themselves in this new age.

Delivering results for clients

• Cheryl Mikuls is a Senior Client Partner for Korn Ferry, based in the firm’s  Kansas City office.
• As a leader in work measurement and compensation design, Ms. Mikuls works  with clients to understand their needs,  gather insight into the workings of various  functions, and design a career frameworks to  appropriately reflect each company’s values.
• Mikuls helps clients better understand how to develop efficient organization  structures which foster career progression  and succession planning across the  organization. She has worked with clients  in many industries and of various sizes to  help them understand the value of internal  hierarchies and the importance of linking  with external market data to develop  compensation programs which drive  employee and organization performance.

Expertise

• Mikuls is an expert in the area of organization design, job design, analysis, and  evaluation using Korn Ferry’s proprietary  methodology for work measurement as a strong  technical process for understanding job value  and explaining the development of an internal  hierarchy to clients.
• She combines this expertise with a comprehensive knowledge of trends and best  practices in compensation design, from base  salary structures to annual and long-term  incentive programs, to create compensation  programs for companies which motivate and  drive performance of individuals towards  overall company goals.
• Mikuls has experience in compensation administration and the creation of incentive  metrics, as well as opportunity levels to drive  the performance of employees towards the  overall company objectives.

Academic and Professional background

• Mikuls holds a master of business administration degree, with high honors, from the University of Notre Dame. She has a bachelor of science in business administration with  an emphasis in finance, cum laude, from Creighton University.

Robert (Bob) leads Gallagher’s Enterprise Resilience Practice that provides risk consulting services to a variety of companies in Wholesale Distribution, Energy, Chemicals, Natural Resources, Transportation, Higher Ed, Real Estate and Financial Services.  Bob was President of Continuum Solutions Ltd that was acquired by Gallagher in February 2016.

Bob has extensive experience in risk consulting. He was Practice Leader for Booz Allen Hamilton’s Commercial Resilience business.  In this capacity, he served as client relationship manager and project manager for a variety of global Fortune 100 clients in Life Sciences, Consumer and Media, Financial Services, and Infrastructure. Capabilities included program management, strategic risk assessments, plan development/implementation, governance programs as well as testing/training/exercising.

Prior to joining Booz Allen, Bob was Managing Director of Marsh McLennan’s Corporate Preparedness Practice, where he was responsible for global client relationship management in a variety of industry verticals; with a heavy concentration in financial services and life sciences.  Bob was also responsible for program development/implementation that included: corporate preparedness policies & procedures, risk assessment & mitigation programs as well as business continuity & crisis plans.

Steven Dworski is the Manager of Training & Organizational Development for Parksite Inc., an employee-owned organization providing sales, market development and distribution services for the building industry serving every state east of the Mississippi. Steve is responsible for the design, construction and deployment of a companywide training platform, and is Provost to the Leadership Academy, developing Parksite’s future leaders.

Prior to Parksite, Steven was The Director of Training for Home Town America and The Manager of Training and Development for Burlington Coat Factory.