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BRIAN VOGEL
Senior Principal
Brian Vogel is a Senior Principal with Quatt Associates. Brian’s practice includes the design and implementation of strategic planning processes, the design of staff and executive compensation and performance systems, and benchmarking of “best practices” for organizational development purposes.
Brian has extensive experience in strategic planning and in the design of compensation and retirement plans for not-for-profit executives. Brians’s legal training also provides an expertise in conducting intermediate sanctions reviews of executive compensation. Brian works extensively with Boards of Directors of not-for-profit organizations to advise them on their compensation and benefits plans.
Brian is the co-author, along with Charles Quatt, of Nonprofit Executive Compensation: Planning, Performance, and Pay, a comprehensive guide to not-for-profit Chief Executive compensation. The second edition of the book was published in October of 2009 by BoardSource.
Prior to joining Quatt Associates, Brian was the Vice President and Managing Partner of Policy Services, Inc., a Washington-based consulting firm. Before that, Brian spent 19 years with the Association of American Railroads, working on a range of policy and legislative issues, including truck size and weight regulation, international trade,agricultural policy, and transportation finance. He left the Association of American Railroads as Assistant Vice President for Policy and Special Projects.
Brian’s client work includes conducting benchmarking studies of organization structure and effectiveness for clients undertaking major organizational change, conducting market pricing and compensation studies for advocacy groups, trade associations, and think tanks, facilitating strategic planning with executive teams, designing compensation and job classification systems, developing performance management systems, conducting opinion research design and analysis, including focus groups and polling, and process reengineering.
Brian is a 1979 graduate of Harvard Law School and a graduate of Harvard College.
IN THE MEDIA
CEO Update: Division of Duties – Association Splits Roles of CEO, President
Charlie Quatt and Brian Vogel commented on the prevalence and motivations for the second in command at a trade association to be given the “President” title.
CEO Update
April 2, 2021
Compensation Discussion with NYC Cultural Institutions
Charlie Quatt, Brian Vogel, and Veronika Bordas presented to the New York Cultural Institution Human Resources Group on compensation trends in their sector based on results from the Museum & Cultural Institution Compensation Survey
NYC-IHRG Meeting
January 2018
A ‘Reasonable’ Investment – Compensating Executives within Legal Bounds
Brian Vogel (Senior Principal) and James Wynn and Veronika Bordas (Principals) published an article on legal issues related to compensation in the nonprofit sector in the September/October issue of the journal “Taxation of Exempts.”
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September 15, 2015
CEO Update Live: Time is money when considering severance terms
Brian Vogel contributed to a panel discussion of CEO contracts and benefits.
June 25, 2015
CEO Update: Top-paid association CEOs, early data shows
Brian Vogel discussed the role of deferred compensation in CEO compensation plans.
December 1, 2014
CEO Update Live: Panelists say demands, risks driving CEO pay
Brian Vogel joined a panel of experts at CEO Update event to discuss trends of growing variable pay in line with private sector.
November 18, 2014
Nonprofit Executive Compensation: Planning, Performance & Pay
Brian Vogel and Charles Quatt provided a comprehensive guide for determining CEO compensation. Published by BoardSource, the book is in its third edition.
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October 1, 2014
CEO Update: Million-dollar CEOs profit from ‘limited supply’ of talent
Brian Vogel commented on pay practices for large trade associations.
April 4, 2014
CEO Update: Negotiating Tips: Do Well, Get Along with Board
Brian Vogel emphasized importance of good relationships with board members when negotiating compensation.
December 6, 2013
CEO Update: High CEO turnover rate makes severance crucial, experts say
Brian Vogel joined the “Executive Compensation in Associations and Nonprofits” panel at the CEO Update Live forum to discuss CEO turnover and severance packages.
December 3, 2013
CEO Update: CEO salaries at midsize groups swell
Charles Quatt and Brian Vogel discussed increasing CEO salaries in midsize associations.
August 23, 2013
CEO Update: What’s in a job title?
Brian Vogel discussed what makes a title meaningful in an organization and the challenge of title-inflation.
May 31, 2013
Charles Quatt
Judith Stein
Simon Quint
James Wynn
Veronika Bordas
Anna Collins
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