Gerald Ledford
Senior Research Scientist at Center for Effective Organizations
Los Angeles, California
Gerald is a key contributor to the Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) from 1984-1998; returned to CEO in 2012 after working as a consultant from 1998-2012. He is a nationally recognized authority on aligning human capital practices to business strategy. His areas of focus include compensation and total rewards, employee engagement and involvement, talent management, the design of work, and large-scale organizational change. He has deep experience with reward systems, including the design of base pay and incentives and has consulted and conducted research with scores of Fortune 500 companies and is active in the Academy of Management, HRPS, WorldatWork, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and he frequently speaks at professional events.