About BCR
Benefits and Compensation Resources (BCR), established in 1996, provides dedicated, high-touch, quality human resources, compensation consulting services. We partner with our clients to deliver pragmatic and customized solutions to fit their business needs.
Our proactive and focused approach, significant and broad-based industry experience, and results orientation set us apart from other consulting firms. We take the time to understand your business environment, needs, goals and objectives so that we can translate your goals and objectives into cost-effective, practical approaches. Building relationships is a key priority for BCR. In fact, we work with many of our clients on repeat engagements.
Our deliverables are programs and actions that:
- Meet the client’s unique needs, cultures, styles and business objectives
- Are realistically implementable
- Become “owned” by the client’s HR/benefits and compensation staff
CONSULTING Services
COMPENSATION CONSULTING
We have a wealth of expertise with compensation and reward programs, such as executive, broad-based and sales compensation.
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
BCR specializes in helping firms calibrate the appropriate inputs and establish a strong performance management process.
PAY
TRANSPARENCY
Ensure your organization’s readiness to comply with pay transparency requirements
Praise from clients
Debra Manning-Dutko, HR Director
Magellan
BCR’s process is well defined, and at the same time, tailored to meet unique challenges and requirements. The expert guidance and input BCR provided, allowed us to quickly implement a compensation program to support our dynamic business needs.
Jim Aikins, Chief Human Resources Officer
Decision Insight Information Group
Benefits and Compensation Resources provided us with valuable benefits expertise, guidance and support at a critical time for our organization. As a newly-established organization with limited staff, BCR came in and quickly assessed our needs and objectives and worked with us, our broker and our vendors to implement our annual benefits enrollment and support our benefits function development. We know we can count on BCR to partner with us as we grow our business.
Melissa Davis, Corporate Human Resources Manager
Plymouth Tube
Benefits and Compensation Resources is our main resource for benchmarking Executive Compensation, as well as all of our incentive programs. We know we will always be provided with accurate, detailed information that we are confident to share with our Senior Management Team and Board of Directors.
Simone Mitchell-Peterson, Executive Director
Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly
For over 5 years, Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly has relied on BCR to provide a full range of HR services. BCR brings over 15 years of experience to the table, along with top notch professional, cost effective, and value added results. BCR is our go to HR firm!
Audrey Southard, Senior Vice President
Follett Higher Education Group
Our Division was faced with a large project – to redesign our compensation system for our 900 plus retail store operation. BCR was instrumental in leading our project management efforts to assist us in implementing the project within our timeframe. BCR’s project manager, had the perfect blend of compensation and business experience to help lead this effort. The result was a massive roll out change, which was within our budget and within our timeframe. With BCR's expert guidance, all main areas were covered: compensation reporting, employee communications, change management and system related tasks.
Donna Griffin, VP of Global Human Resources
Turtle Wax
The BCR team are the experts when it comes to compensation, both domestic and international. They spend a great deal of time learning the business before providing options for solutions. They have demonstrated great flexibility in adapting to scope changes along the way as well. Their depth of experience has given them, and our recommendations, great credibility to our Board of Directors.
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Meet our experts
Dyana ten Berge, President
Dyana has over 23 years of experience in compensation consulting. She began her career with Mercer’s Performance, Talent & Rewards practice and has been practicing independently since 2014.
Her compensation work has spanned a variety of industries. Read More →
Mike Thompson, Consultant
Mike has more than 25 years of compensation experience. He has consulted in the design and communication of compensation plans for employees, executives and board members working in a broad cross-section of industries, including consumer products, manufacturing, Read More →
Jill Rea, Consultant
Jill is a consultant with over 20 years of progressive compensation experience. She has the proven ability to design, implement and manage effective broad-based sales, executive and international compensation programs. Read More →
Barbara Manny, Advisor
Barbara has over 25 years of experience in the compensation and employee benefits area. Her compensation expertise includes the design and development of base salary compensation programs, executive and management incentive plans, sales compensation programs and broad-based variable compensation plans. Read More →
Lisa Kleiner, Consultant
Lisa is a seasoned compensation professional with a consulting and practitioner background. She brings to the team successful experience in leading the development and administration of broad-based compensation programs including salary structure development, job evaluation, Read More →
Dyana ten Berge
President
Dyana has over 23 years of experience in compensation consulting. She began her career with Mercer’s Performance, Talent & Rewards practice and has been practicing independently since 2014.
Her compensation work has spanned a variety of industries including consumer products, non-profits, medical devices, pharmaceutical distribution and hospitality.
Dyana specializes in developing compensation programs that are both market competitive and linked to business goals and performance. She has consulted on many aspects of performance and rewards including pay transparency, pay equity, sales compensation, broad based employee pay, market pricing and analysis, and performance management strategy and design.
Her experience includes the integration of sales forces in merger situations, implementation of pay transparency, design of performance-based compensation programs, industry benchmarking research, and compensation structure design and implementation.
Dyana has built intellectual capital tools and been invited to present on the subject of sales compensation design. She previously served as co-advisor on Mercer’s CALL Compensation Survey focusing on call center operations.
BA, Northwestern University; MBA, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.
Barbara Manny
Advisor
Barbara has over 25 years of experience in the compensation and employee benefits area. Her compensation expertise includes the design and development of base salary compensation programs, executive and management incentive plans, sales compensation programs and broad-based variable compensation plans. Her benefits expertise includes the design and development of retirement plans and health care benefits, including strategy development, carrier selection, plan design and cost management, benefits outsourcing proposals, and analysis to determine if a benefit/function should be performed by an outsourcer. Additionally, other HR expertise includes: HR strategy development, HR team facilitation processes, organization planning and development, succession planning and development, HR reengineering projects, and managing HR, benefit and compensation issues associated with acquisition and divestitures. Barbara has experience in both centralized and decentralized environments, and her experience includes both domestic and foreign-based programs.
Prior to consulting, Barbara was Director, Compensation and Benefits for Premark International (8 years), and Director, Compensation, Benefits and Organizational Development for Zenith Electronics (18 years).
Barbara holds a B.A. from the University of Illinois and a Masters in Management from Northwestern University. She is a current Board Member of WorldatWork and a past member of its Board of Directors, as well as a past President of the Chicago Compensation Association.
Barbara has worked with a number of start-up clients in a cross-section of industries, including telecommunications, software, fast food and service-based companies. She has also worked with a number of larger corporations from a cross-section of industries — including consulting, banking, financial services, food/beverage distributors, manufacturing, real estate, service and telecommunications. She has also worked with a number of non-profit organizations & associations.
Mike Thompson
Consultant
Mike has more than 25 years of compensation experience. He has consulted in the design and communication of compensation plans for employees, executives and board members working in a broad cross-section of industries, including consumer products, manufacturing, financial services, healthcare, retail and wholesale, publishing, telecommunications and energy. His experience includes designing annual and long-term incentive plans, regulatory compliance, communicating and implementing all types of compensation plans, and developing multinational compensation programs, sales and other variable compensation plans. He has extensive exposure to all major position evaluation methodologies, and has in-depth knowledge of all major compensation surveys and analytical techniques.
Mike was a Managing Director of Frederic W. Cook & Co. through December 2002 and was responsible for the Chicago office. Previously, Mike held management positions in the human resources departments of three major corporations: at Sara Lee Corporation as the Executive Director, Compensation and Executive Development; at Zenith Electronics as the Director, Compensation; and at Continental Bank Corporation as the Manager of Incentive Plans.
Mike received his M.B.A in Finance from DePaul University in 1985, with prior degrees from DePaul in Philosophy and French in 1977 and 1973.
Mike is an active member of WorldatWork, from which he has received its Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Chicago Compensation Association. He speaks and writes on a wide variety of compensation issues.
Lisa Kleiner
Consultant
Lisa is a seasoned compensation professional with a consulting and practitioner background. She brings to the team successful experience in leading the development and administration of broad-based compensation programs including salary structure development, job evaluation, incentive plans, merit increase and salary planning implementation, consolidation to common merit date and performance management.
Lisa has conducted market pricing and evaluation for national and international jobs, provided policy development, and FLSA compliance assistance. She is skilled at developing compensation communications plans, collateral materials, and training programs, and is experienced at facilitating training for HR, management, and general employee population on program changes or launches. She also works effectively with all levels of management.
•Compensation Plan Design & Administration
• Project management
• Merit Processes
• Job Evaluation & Market Pricing
• Market Pricing: CompAnalyst, MarketPay, Eprism
• HRIS: Workday, ADP, PeopleSoft, SAP
Lisa has led program development and provided compensation services for multiple companies. She holds a B.S. in Business with Human Resources Concentration from Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana.
Certifications: Certified Compensation Professional (CCP); Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR); SHRM-Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP)
Jill Rea
Consultant
Jill is a consultant with over 20 years of progressive compensation experience. She has the proven ability to design, implement and manage effective broad-based sales, executive and international compensation programs.
Prior to consulting, Jill gained significant compensation experience in several large, Chicago-based corporations such as Allstate, where she headed up the sales compensation function; Navteq, where she was responsible for the design, implementation and administration of all of its incentive programs; and Boeing, where she had a lead role in the design, implementation and administration of executive, broad-based, incentive and international compensation programs. She also had significant compensation positions at U.S. Cellular and Morton International.
Jill holds a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Human Resources from DePaul University, and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accountancy from the University of Notre Dame.
