Totally Rewarding TRS Podcasts

This week on the podcast we were delighted to host Mark Beatty, Senior Vice President of Global Total Rewards at Paramount. As a former attorney who made the transition into Compensation, Mark brings some interesting insights to the conversation. We explore the best and worst things about the profession, the annual nightmare of comp round and Mark shares some great anecdotes from his career to date.

This week we welcome Lisa Vilaverde, Vice President of Total Reward at Equinox Group in New York. Lisa is a rarity in the Compensation & Benefits profession as someone who developed an incredibly successful career in benefits rising through the ranks at Time Warner and WPP before moving into Total Rewards by taking on Compensation in her current role. During this episode we explore how she made that transition from comp into bens, why this is such a rarity in the market, Lisa offers advice and guidance on how Benefits professionals can broaden their skills and change their career trajectory.

Jamie welcomes Danielle Shanes the Global Head of Benefits at the NBA . Together they discuss the challenge of making your benefits offering relevant and engaging to the modern workforce, whether employee benefits are starting to mean more than individual compensation and the future of benefits in 2022 and beyond

Jamie welcomes Greg Johnson the Global Head of Total Rewards for Softbank.  Together they discuss the complex and controversial public perception of Compensation, how Compensation and HR professionals often fail to work well together, the reasons no one seems to ever enter the profession on purpose and how Compensation professionals can often really overcomplicate things!