Don B. Lindner is the executive compensation practice leader for WorldatWork. Lindner serves as staff liaison to the WorldatWork Executive Rewards Advisory Board, which operates as the association’s strategic committee for identifying, articulating and prioritizing issues, topics and challenges affecting the profession in the executive rewards area. Lindner is responsible for developing WorldatWork certification courses on executive rewards and governance.
Lindner is the executive editor of Handbook for Reading and Preparing Proxy Statements: 4th Edition (WorldatWork 2011). He was instrumental in creating the WorldatWork Executive Rewards Questionary, an online tool to help compensation committees and practitioners clearly identify every essential factor for rewarding executives and directors. He also led the development of The Practitioner’s Guide to Executive Reward Communications.
Prior to joining WorldatWork, Lindner spent 20 years as a senior compensation and human resources practitioner at Phelps Dodge Corporation and Security Pacific Bank (currently Bank of America). He also has more than ten years of experience as a compensation consultant with Watson Wyatt, Buck Consultants and Executive Compensation Associates. As both a senior practitioner and executive compensation consultant, Lindner served as the delegate on compensation committees of both public and private company boards.
Lindner has been quoted extensively for his expertise in executive compensation and governance in major business publications including Washington Post, New York Times, Forbes, Business Week, Newsday, Financial Times, Financial Week, and numerous non-US newspapers such as Guardian, Australian Financial Review, Globe and Mail, Handelsblatt, and Les Echos.
Professional Designations/Accreditations:
Certified Compensation Professional (CCP)
Certified Executive Compensation Professional (CECP)
Certified Benefits Professional (CBP)
Global Remuneration Professional (GRP)
Education:
M.S. in Business from Virginia Tech
B.S. in Business, B.A. in Economics from Penn State University
For interview or speaking requests, contact Marcia Rhodes in Public Relations at Marcia.Rhodes@worldatwork.org or call (480) 304-6885.
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Don B. Lindner, CCP, CECP, CBP, GRP 
