About Us
People. Performance. Reward. is an independent reward and human capital consultancy founded in London in 2020. We work with clients in industries as diverse as technology, retail, leisure and travel, professional services, the environment, property, charities and financial services. Our clients include both small and large organisations, private, public and not for profit.
Our experience incorporates the UK market as well Ireland and Europe, the US, APAC and Africa and as such we provide a convenient London-based consulting partner to clients with operations and people across more than just one country.
We offer all the experience, benefits and insights of a larger consultancy, but with service levels and pricing more akin to that expected from a smaller boutique advisory partner. We take the time to understand your business, people and reward issues and challenges in order that we can provide the right advice and solutions, carefully tailored to your organisation and industry nuances. Our client experience testimonials bear witness to the fact that working with People. Performance. Reward. has brought significant benefits and value to them.
We also assist clients with related organisational structure review and design, and workforce planning solutions.
Our Services
Our reward consultancy provides businesses with tailored and problem specific solutions to drive performance, and engage and retain talent across the organisation. We assist with pay and benefits reviews, job evaluation, benchmarking, pay scale development, pay progression as well as pay and benefit policy development.
Our EU Pay Transparency readiness service helps you prepare for upcoming requirements efficiently and with confidence. We combine regulatory expertise with practical support to ensure you’re compliant, prepared, and future-proof.
A good performance management system changes mindsets and drives a culture of engagement, retention and high performance. We assist with all aspects of performance management system design, development and implementation.
Our incentive plan design consulting services provide clients with bespoke and fit for purpose short and long-term incentive plans to drive performance and engage talent across the organisation, including plan design, documentation and implementation support.
We also offer a bespoke Sales incentive plan (SIP) review and design service to make sure your sales compensation model is as effective as it could be.
Our Executive Compensation consulting services focus on all the most important and pressing aspects of Executive Pay, including benchmarking, governance and both cash and equity based incentive plan design and advisory support.
A good structure delivers benefits in terms of cost and the ability to deliver efficiently on the business imperatives. We have designed efficient structures across industries including Healthcare, Professional services, Technology, Property, Retail and others.
Our SWP consulting services combine elements of organisational design with benchmarking and financial modelling to allow our clients to right-size and right-shape their organisations. SWP allows organisations to understand what talent and capability they currently have, and what will be required in the future.
Our Experts
Paul
Hunter
Principal Consultant
and Founder
Paul has over twenty-five years’ experience in a professional reward advisory capacity and has held leadership positions previously with Big 4 advisories, boutique advisory practices, as well as large multinational advisors in the human capital and reward industries, including both Mercer and Hay Group, where he is a former Head of Reward and Workforce Planning. Paul has been a keynote speaker at conference, industry and client events across a wide variety of industries and his professional advisory experience spans across the UK, US, Canada, Ireland, Europe, the Middle East, a number of African countries, and the Asia Pacific region. He has been published in, amongst others: Executive Compensation Briefing, CIPD’s ‘People Management’, CEO Magazine, HR Director, Business Report, the University of the Witwatersrand’s Business School Journal and he has been a keynote speaker on CNBC on performance and reward matters. In his career as a professional management consultant, he has advised more than 150 organisations to date, in industries including: Financial Services, Professional Services, Retail, Mobile Telecom, Health, Not-for-Profit, NGO, Public Sector, Media, Mining and Resources, Energy and Renewables, Oil and Gas, Property, Construction, Private Equity, Technology, Travel and Tourism, Life Sciences and Transport and Logistics. He has significant experience in advising organisations on performance and reward models and has developed a number of bespoke sales incentive and bonus plans for organisations in industries including: Retail, Real Estate, Media, Professional Services, Financial Services, Automotive, Construction, Mobile Telco, Cruise Liners, Technology and Software / SAAS. Paul holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and Finance, and a post-graduate degree in Corporate and Investment Finance. He is also certified in both the Hay Group and Mercer job evaluation methodologies as both a practitioner and teacher.
Marina Gostanian
Senior Associate
Marina is a Senior Associate at People. Performance. Reward. Prior to that she was a Senior Consultant within AON’s reward advisory practice in London. Marina began her career as an auditor with EY in London in 2010 and has worked in management consulting for over 15 years. Her experience spans across the UK and US. She has worked across industries including: Technology, Retail, Oil and Gas, Construction, FMCG, Pharma, Property, Energy, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Private Equity and Public Sector. Whilst at AON, Marina was the in-house financial modeling expert and built models that enabled companies to better understand the cost of any proposed reward structure designs and compare them with current arrangements. Marina’s work in Compensation and Performance Management has spanned a wide range of complex assignments across industries and geographies. Marina holds an MSc in Finance from Imperial College Business School in the UK and a BSc in Economics from MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in the USA. She is also an exam certified CFA and ACA and has both a CFM and AFM from the Financial Modeling Institute.
Natalia
Kushnikova
Research Lead
and
Project Support
Natalia has more than fifteen years’ experience within human resources and has completed project work for clients in the financial services, investments, media, security, construction, oil and gas, professional services and charity industries. Her work includes market research, benchmarking, incentive plan tracking and reporting, and analysis and report development. In addition, she manages client and project administration. She holds a PhD in Human Resource Management, with a thesis on the pharmaceutical industry.