This special quarterly series of the Governing Health podcast with SullivanCotter highlights developments in and offers support to the board’s executive compensation committee as it navigates a range of complex operational, technical, and strategic challenges.
In this episode, Michael Peregrine, Tim Cotter, Bruce Greenblatt, Kathy Hastings, and Jeff Holdvogt offer recommendations for the committee to focus on in 2025, including:
- Establishing appropriate incentive goals in an evolving health system
- Prioritizing executive succession planning/leadership development
- Keeping appraised of regulatory and market trends
- Ensuring flexibility and defensibility in committee approval processes
- Aligning key governance documents to fulfill committee fiduciary duties
- Evaluating committee reporting and coordination with other board committees
- Overseeing executive compensation in for-profit and not-for-profit ventures subsidiaries
- Considering board compensation trends in not-for-profit health systems
- Determining the need to evolve committee composition
- Addressing executive compensation scrutiny