What Clients Say About Us
One client said it best: “Our incentive plan was seriously off course, and teaming up with you got us back on target.”
One client said it best: “Our incentive plan was seriously off course, and teaming up with you got us back on target.”
Badger Meter
I have had the pleasure of working with Lappley & Associates on numerous boards where I serve as the Compensation Committee Chair. Their services have included complete reviews of all compensation and benefit levels, market comparisons and salary and benefit program structures. Lappley & Associates have consistently exceeded our expectations in both the delivery of comprehensive information and providing solid, actionable recommendations for the organizations. I would strongly recommend any organization to seriously consider working with the professionals at Lappley & Associates.
Great Lakes Protection Fund
We asked Lappley & Associates to conduct a review of the competitiveness and appropriateness of the compensation and benefits programs for our staff. Neil Lappley and his staff provided us with a comprehensive analysis of our programs – the first overall review in several years. They proved to understand our business model and our approach to compensation. Our positions were not easy to compare to the market but they provided credible analyses. Our Board found the analysis and conclusions highly credible and they chose to change the corporation’s compensation and benefits in accord with those conclusions.
Batory Foods
Tim Weizer and Neil Lappley assisted Batory Foods with a review and analysis of our sales compensation program. They spent considerable time up front to understand our company and its unique sales compensation and organization issues. This was particularly important to us given our future growth strategy and recent acquisitions. Their understanding of our business objectives and culture was clear and evident in their recommendations and implementation steps. We elected to implement many of their recommendations, which generated great long term value for Batory. Please contact me directly if you would like further thoughts on Tim and Neil’s work.
Farmer’s Rice Cooperative
Neil completed a compensation survey for MBG Marketing that included difficult positions such as horticulturalists. His research was thorough and complete. His presentation to our Board gave them confidence in the analysis from a third party perspective.
Andis Company
I offer this recommendation to the high quality of service you can expect from Lappley & Associates and Neil Lappley specifically. I have known Neil for approximately 10 years. When I began my new position with Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin and Metropolitan Chicago and had compensation needs, I called Neil based on some past work he had done for Goodwill. As a Human Resources executive with over 20 years in the field, I have dealt with many compensation professionals. Neil is at the top of the group. He has tremendous integrity and ethics and is well respected by our Executive Team and the Board. He truly cares about the customer and puts their needs first. He and his staff provide excellent service and know their business. It is truly without hesitation that I recommend Neil as a consultant for your business as there is no doubt that you will find him professional and responsive as I have found him.
Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin, Inc
Beginning in 2002, and continuing until my retirement in 2012, Lappley & Associates provided compensation consulting for our large nonprofit corporation. I worked directly with Neil Lappley and found him to be deeply knowledgeable, a very clear communicator, and an individual trusted both by my management team and by our board of directors. During those years, our organization grew rapidly and our executive team expanded with it. I would recommend Lappley & Associates to any organization seeking counsel in the management of executive compensation.
Dorner Manufacturing Corporation
We first engaged Lappley & Associates several years ago to assist with our co-wide incentive program. They provided competitive market review and analysis of our current plan and offered solid recommendations for change. Those recommendations led us to modify our plan to ensure we were measuring and reinforcing the most important things in our business. That model still exists today.
We recently finished a second engagement with Lappley & Associates – this time an analysis of Dorner’s executive compensation competitiveness. We needed analysis to ensure we could attract and retain senior managers, as well as ensure senior managers were equitably paid relative to other positions in the organization. An additional deliverable was to develop proposed salary ranges for our senior managers. Neil and his team hit on all aspects of this project and delivered terrific results and feedback. Neil is a pleasure to work with!
IndependenceFirst
I have had the pleasure of working with Neil for over 25 years, first as Senior Vice President of Goodwill Industries SE Wisconsin and Metropolitan Chicago and more recently as a consultant to the CEO of Independence First, Milwaukee. In both organizations, Neil provided very useful, unbiased, fact-based analysis of organizational compensation structures, comparable community wages and recommendations and implementation strategies for improvement.
Neil takes the time to understand the organization, their personnel, duties and the rationale behind existing compensation structures. At the same time, he interviews key personnel, management and, if appropriate, Board members to provide a comprehensive review of the compensation and benefits structure. His personable approach results in a non-threatening review process.
I recommend Neil Lappley and Associates without reservation if you are seeking clear, unbiased and practical solutions to your human resources needs.