Stacey Hawley

About Stacey Hawley

I am a Total Rewards and Global Compensation executive who designs and scales compensation and benefits strategies that power growth, strengthen trust, and elevate performance. I bring a unique blend of strategic foresight and operational rigor—connecting reward programs to business outcomes, talent strategy, and manager capability across complex, matrixed global organizations.My work aligns rewards with major business shifts—including HRIS transformations, M&A integrations, restructurings, and divestitures—ensuring compliance, mitigating risk, and accelerating value realization. I build integrated, mission‑aligned programs that optimize spend, strengthen attraction and retention, and deliver a differentiated employee experience across diverse workforce segments.My expertise spans job architecture, base pay structures, short‑ and long‑term incentives, executive compensation, health and wellness benefits, governance, and recognition—shaping globally harmonized frameworks and standards. As a champion of pay equity and transparency, I use responsible analytics and modern communication approaches to increase literacy, improve fairness, and reduce organizational risk.I lead high‑performing teams, modernize systems, and leverage AI‑enabled modeling to drive market intelligence, scenario design, and data‑driven decision-making. I partner closely with Finance, HR, Legal, IT, and business leaders—particularly through M&A due diligence and integration—to ensure disciplined governance, speed, and high‑quality outcomes.Focus areas: Global reward governance • Executive compensation • Incentives (STI/LTI) • Benefits strategy (value, innovation, inclusion) • Job architecture & evaluation • Compensation design • Pay equity & transparency • M&A • AI‑enabled analytics • Incentive program design • Skills‑based careers & performance enablement

Experience

1. Associate Partner

   Aon

   Mar 2023 — Present

   I create the vision, strategy, and roadmap to design and sustainably govern compensation and total rewards organizations, programs, and practices for large, global enterprises—including Fortune 100 companies. I partner with senior executives to drive strategic decision-making during complex business transformations, ensuring that compensation and rewards programs align with and accelerate organizational change. I also lead merger and acquisition integrations focused on compensation and Total Rewards. As a people leader, my leadership approach blends coaching, mentorship, and strategic alignment to build high-performing and engaged teams. Core Expertise:1. Global rewards and compensation strategy development2. Job architecture, job evaluation, and leveling frameworks3. Workforce planning and governance of compensation programs4. Pay transparency, pay equity, and incentive designAs a Retail Industry Practice Leader and one of the firm’s Total Rewards leaders, I specialize in designing and implementing total rewards programs for global retail organizations, embedding governance and sustainability into every aspect of program design and execution.Expertise includes global rewards and compensation strategy development, global job architecture and job evaluation and program design and implementation. Focus on pay transparency, pay equity, job architecture, leveling, workforce planning, compensation program design and ongoing governance.

Education

• University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business

  MBA

  1999 — 2002

• Cornell University

  BS, Industrial and Labor Relations

  1992 — 1996

Skills

• Career Management
• Sourcing
• Temporary Placement
• Resume Writing
• Interviews
• Leadership Development
• HR Transformation
• Human Resources
• Resume
• Interviewing Skills
• Job Coaching
• Labor Relations
• Executive Search
• Talent Management
• Conflict Resolution
• Compensation & Benefit
• Succession Planning
• Executive Management
• Employee Benefits
• Management
• Job Evaluation
• HR Consulting
• Interview Preparation
• Recruiting
• Onboarding
• Coaching
• Career Counseling
• Leadership
• College Recruiting
• Applicant Tracking Systems
• Culture Change
• Hris
• HR Policies
• Executive Development
• Board of Director Performance Evaluations
• Career Development
• Job Descriptions
• CEO Performance Evaluations
• Deferred Compensation
• Compensation