One of the most important functions of a public company is to establish an equity compensation strategy that is competitive and equitable, while also promoting employee engagement and high performance. It’s been proven time and time again that there is a direct correlation between an effective equity compensation plan and the role it plays in promoting employee retention, enhancing performance, and ultimately, impacting the bottom line. Given its importance, how do you implement a plan that works? Despite equity compensation being an important tool that supports business goals, designing and implementing the right plan can be challenging.

This session will walk you through some of the key steps to successfully develop and implement an effective, competitive equity compensation plan including:

• How to craft an equity compensation philosophy that aligns with your business goals and objectives
• Identifying the right sources of external market data needed to support your strategy
• How to confidently find reliable comp data and determine the appropriate percentile to use when reviewing market data
• Examining the right plan design & equity mix for your culture

We’ll round out our discussion examining some of the most pressing related trends impacting public companies today. You won’t want to miss it!

CPE CREDIT HOURS: 1.5*

Field of study: Specialized Knowledge
Levels: O
Delivery method: Group live
Advanced preparation: None

CEP Continuing Education (CE) credit:1.25 credits

Please visit our Continuing Education and Event Policies pages for more information.

For stock plan administrators, one of the biggest dreads is that sudden urgent call from the CFO, Board, Comp Committee etc., looking for specific information from the equity comp plan. And it always seems to be an emergency!

This session aims to ease the dread by covering 5 key figures that administrators should have on hand or know where to quickly find. The discussion will cover key figures relevant for both Private and Public companies and our speakers include an issuer at a fast-growing energy technology company, as well as veteran administration providers serving both public and private issuer clients. For each figure we will cover the definition, who is likely to be interested in the figure and why, and how the figure is derived. Key figures include: Shares Available to Issue, Dilution and Overhang, Run Rate/ Burn Rate, 162(m) calcs, and Compensation "Actually Paid". 

CPE CREDIT HOURS: 1.5*

Field of study: Specialized Knowledge
Levels: O
Delivery method: Group live
Advanced preparation: None

CEP Continuing Education (CE) credit:1.25 credits

Please visit our Continuing Education and Event Policies pages for more information.

Life-changing events can create challenges for global share plan administration, and things become even more complicated when you add in regulatory requirements in numerous locations. Leaves of absence seem to be on the rise around the world and companies are increasingly examining their approach to dealing with leaves for their equity programs. This panel will discuss different philosophies companies have in dealing with leaves of absence for long-term incentive awards like RSUs and options as well as for employee stock purchase programs.

This session will help you identify and avoid potential legal and practical pitfalls in handling leaves of absence for global share plans and offer practical solutions for companies trying to balance administrative challenges while managing compliance risks for a multijurisdictional population. Join us for words of wisdom from two Silicon-Valley based tech companies who have tackled LoA challenges and lived to tell about it!

CPE CREDIT HOURS: 1.5*

Field of study: Specialized Knowledge
Levels: O
Delivery method: Group live
Advanced preparation: None

CEP Continuing Education (CE) credit:1.25 credits

Please visit our Continuing Education and Event Policies pages for more information.

It’s share plan chutes and ladders.

People can find financial concepts boring – that’s why you need to get them engaged and excited. Consider how you would speak to your employees about the effects of macro-economics on their stock plans? Or how to make sure that the “need-to-know” details are presented in an informative, educational and engaging way? This is a session with a difference and will focus not just on the importance of knowledge sharing to help create financial wellness for your workforce, but how you can find interesting ways to communicate and engage with employees.

Creating an engaging and reflective forum, we will get the audience involved in the discussion by beginning the session with a game, where the audience will have their own understanding of specific macro-economic concepts put to the test. One side of the room will be against the other and for each topic accurately explained by a team, they will move forward one space on the board. If the team doesn’t know an answer, they’ll move backwards, representing the setback a lack of knowledge can have on their employees.

From inflation, to volatility, ROI or AMT, and 10B5-1 plans, we’ll be covering the fundamentals to ensure the audience leaves this session better equipped to support their employees in understanding how macro-economics might impact their equity compensation. Following this, our panel will move on to look at practical solutions to educate your workforce, with a particular focus on video libraries as an interactive hub for educational resources.

This session will cover six new ideas for your stock compensation radar. We’ll explore modernization strategies to make your stock programs more successful, less costly, more equitable, more differentiated, and better equipped for what may lay ahead.  Topic will include how you can time travel with prior day close, the outsized benefits of fractional shares for both tax withholding and ESPP, exploring different vesting levers and more!

CPE CREDIT HOURS: 1.5*

Field of study: Specialized Knowledge
Levels: O
Delivery method: Group live
Advanced preparation: None

CEP Continuing Education (CE) credit:1.25 credits

Please visit our Continuing Education and Event Policies pages for more information.