Cheryl

Mikuls

Senior Client Partner

Cheryl Mikuls is a Senior Client Partner for Korn Ferry based in Kansas City, Missouri with over 35 years of experience.

As a leader in organization design and job architecture, Ms. Mikuls works  with clients to understand their business strategy,  gather insight into the workings of various  functions and operating models, and design organization structures and career frameworks to appropriately reflect the internal relationship of jobs across the organization.  Additional Ms. Mikuls has spent her career designing compensation structures and variable pay programs using this career architecture as the foundation for ensuring equitable and competitive compensation.

Ms. Mikuls helps clients better understand  how to develop efficient organization structures which foster career progression  and succession planning across the  organization, also aligning the design of the jobs and career ladders with the capabilities of individuals to add value to the talent development needs of the organization. She has worked with clients  in many industries and of various sizes to  help them understand the value of internal  hierarchies and the importance of linking  with external market data to develop  compensation programs which drive  employee and organization performance.  Ms. Mikuls has spent many of her years working with retail and consumer companies, creating job frameworks and compensation programs for both corporate and field positions to ensure strong career opportunities and relationships in pay across functions.

Ms. Mikuls is an expert in the area of  organization design, job design, and job evaluation using Korn Ferry’s proprietary  methodology for work measurement as a strong  technical process for understanding job value  and explaining the development of an internal hierarchy to clients. This includes the implementation of the KF Profile Manager and KF Architect digital platforms for designing Success Profiles which provide strong foundations for creating and defining job accountabilities and aligning employee capabilities for use in assessing and developing individuals.

She combines this expertise with a comprehensive knowledge of trends and best  practices in compensation design, from base  salary structures to annual and long-term  incentive programs, to create compensation  programs for companies which motivate and  drive performance of individuals towards overall company goals.

Ms. Mikuls has experience in compensation  administration and the creation of incentive metrics, as well as opportunity levels to drive  the performance of employees towards the  overall company objectives.

Ms. Mikuls holds a master of business administration degree, with high honors, from the  University of Notre Dame. She has a bachelor of science in business administration with a major in finance, cum laude, from Creighton University.