Bob Lemke Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Central Region practice leader retained by client Board and senior leadership to design and evaluate the strategic, governance, and technical aspects of executive and broad-based employee compensation arrangements. Advisory services help clients evaluate and design future-oriented HR capabilities to meet changing business environments, future workforce needs and growth through new markets, new customers or new organizational structures.

Rolling Meadows, Il, Us

Developed Board and executive-level relationships to manage engagements in total rewards strategy, executive and broad-based compensation. Clients serviced across a variety of ownership structures and industries, including financial and insurance services, credit unions, healthcare, higher education, manufacturing, business services and other non-profits.Specialties: Compensation strategy and design, short- and long-term incentive plan design and modeling, sales compensation, competitive market analysis, pay equity analysis, job architecture/leveling, strategic HR planning and specialized program evaluations.

Chicago, Il, Us

HR capability building to enhance business alignment of workforce strategies, total rewards and HR services during a period of national healthcare reform. Reporting to CHRO, led a team of collaborative and intellectually curious analysts to direct enterprise workforce analytics, strategy, HR planning, portfolio & financial management, and HR communications.

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Retained by CEO, CFO or CHRO as trusted advisor to provide HR & compensation consulting, design workforce strategies and improve HR operations. Recognized as Top Emerging Business by the Daily Herald's Business Ledger.Practice Areas: Design and lead large scale initiatives, including executive and broad-base employee compensation, pay equity reviews, annual and long term incentives, sales compensation, health/welfare, retirement, and third party vendor management. Included M&A buy and sell-side due diligence, integration and divestiture activities and other organizational change.

Member of Executive Committee and SEC Reporting Officer, led human resources and retail branch growth strategies for this highly successful online brokerage firm. Created talent and workforce solutions to support transformation from an online & centralized call center to a full service retail brokerage firm with comprehensive back office operations. This "eStreet to mStreet" operating model enhanced financial performance and shareholder value as E-Trade Financial Centers when the firm merged with e*Trade in 2001.

Leadership responsibility for corporate human resources, payroll, HRIS, executive and broad-based compensation and retirement plan areas. Collaborated with business leaders and HR partners to design and execute complex systems and employee communications for credit based, flexible benefits program, buy/sell vacation options, multiple welfare plan, stock based long term incentives, as well as supporting operational procedures and financial controls.

Member of the firm's Management Council, accountable for strategic design and management of total rewards: executive and staff cash compensation, sales incentives, equity ownership, and health and welfare programs for this majority-employee owned investment/securities brokerage firm. Lead Board compensation committee meetings, annual CD&A; guided subsidiary integration, sell and buy-side due diligence activities and post acquisition integration and spin-off, including subsidiary HR Business Partners. Supported the sale of this majority employee-owned firm to First Union, which later merged into Wachovia, now Wells Fargo.

New York, Ny, Us

Joined as part of Mercer's acquisition of The Sullivan Group. Client assignments involved all aspects of executive and broad-based employee salary administration, incentive compensation, HR operations and communication. Named the Midwest Region's emerging "Top Gun" for client satisfaction results.

Park Ridge, Illinois, Us

Consulting subsidiary of Lutheran General Healthcare System (now a part of Advocate Healthcare). Consulting analyst to hospital and healthcare organizations. Responsible for implementing employee engagement studies, employee compensation programs, specialized program evaluations, as well as marketing and continuing medical education research for client organizations. Received "President's Award" for engagement quality and client satisfaction results.

Strategic Decision And Risk Management, Decision Science

Sia- Securities Management, Securities Management

Master'S Degree, Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Bachelor'S Degree, Applied Psychology - Honors Program