Tom McMullen

As a leader in Korn Ferry’s global performance and workforce rewards group, he is accountable for a variety of solution design, thought leadership, innovation, and capability development initiatives.

Mr. McMullen is also a member of Korn Ferry’s global Performance leadership team and leads the development of AI capabilities to support this Solution area.

His consulting work focuses on developing organization performance and total reward programs including reward strategy, variable pay design, performance management systems, work measurement, compensation and organization effectiveness programs.

Mr. McMullen has worked with organizations in a broad range of engagements over the past two decades in a number of industries, including restaurants, retail, consumer products, education, healthcare, life sciences, financial services, government, not for profit, and manufacturing.

Mr. McMullen has been quoted widely in the media around the world, and he is a leading speaker on reward, performance and human resource issues. He recently authored articles that include: Differentiating Pay Without Performance Ratings (Workspan), Three Secrets to Finding and Keeping the Best Millennial Employees (Chief Executive), Rewarding Great Ideas: Can Incentives Encourage Organizational Innovation? (WorldatWork Journal), Global Trends in Pay for Performance (Journal of Compensation and Benefits), The Talent Management Handbook (McGraw-Hill).

Mr. McMullen holds a bachelor’s of science in mathematics and a master’s of business administration from the University of Louisville. Previously, Mr. McMullen held senior compensation roles with KFC Corp. and Humana, Inc. He has served on the Chicago Compensation Association board as well as advisory boards for WorldatWork, HR.com and Compensation and Benefits Review.