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.