Not a theorist. A practitioner.
Twenty-five years inside executive compensation, starting at Towers Perrin when the discipline was still being invented.
Johan Grundlingh.
I started inside Towers Perrin (now WTW) when executive compensation was still being invented as a proper consulting discipline. I moved to Singapore and founded Carrots Consulting in 2000. I've sat inside the boardroom as a non-executive director and advised from outside it as a specialist. Both perspectives shape this voice.
Governuity is the personal brand. It exists because the conversations that matter most in executive compensation rarely happen in public. Big 4 firms won't criticise boards they also audit. In-house teams can't call out their own committees. So the uncomfortable truths stay whispered, and nothing changes.
I decided to say them out loud instead. This site is that voice. The actual delivery happens at carrotsalign.com.
Twenty-five years in the room.
Accredited at the highest level of board governance in Singapore. Trained inside one of the two firms that built the executive compensation industry.
I've been in rooms where a single sentence from the right person changed a board's mind about a twenty million dollar pay package. That sentence is almost never the polite one.Johan Grundlingh