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Knowledgeable, responsive specialists,
focused on the nonprofit sector.

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
Compensation Discussion with NYC Cultural Institutions

Brian Vogel, Charlie Quatt, and Veronika Bordas presented to the New York Cultural Institution Human Resources Group on compensation trends in their sector based on results from the recently-released 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.”
Read more here
September 2015

Time is money when considering severance terms

Brian Vogel contributes to a panel discussion of CEO contracts and benefits.
CEO Update LIVE
June 25, 2015

Top-paid association CEOs, early data shows

Brian Vogel discusses role deferred compensation in CEO compensation plans.
CEO Update
December 1, 2014

Panelists say demands, risks driving CEO pay (Video)

Brian Vogel joins a panel of experts at CEO Update event to discuss trends of growing variable pay in line with private sector.
CEO Update Live (Video 6:33)
November 18, 2014

Million-dollar CEOs profit from ‘limited supply’ of talent

Brian Vogel comments on pay practices for large trade associations.
CEO Update
April 4, 2014

Negotiating Tips: Do Well, Get Along with Board

Brian Vogel emphasizes importance of good relationships with board members when negotiating compensation.
CEO Update
December 6, 2013

High CEO turnover rate makes severance crucial, experts say

Brian Vogel joins “Executive Compensation in Associations and Nonprofits” panel at the CEO Update Live forum to discuss CEO turnover and severance packages.
CEO Update
December 3, 2013

CEO salaries at midsize groups swell

Charles Quatt and Brian Vogel discuss increasing CEO salaries in midsize associations.
CEO Update
August 23, 2013

What’s in a job title?

Brian Vogel discusses what makes a title meaningful in an organization and the challenge of title-inflation.
CEO Update
May 31, 2013