Bob Sumner is a senior consultant with Dawson
Consulting Group Consultants and has twenty-five years independent consulting experience
in addition to a twenty-six year career with Hewitt Associates, a major, international
human resource, compensation and benefit-consulting firm. Mr. Sumner has served over three
hundred clients in a broad variety of business sectors including: healthcare,
manufacturing, energy, associations, banking, and retail/wholesale.
His guiding principal is to assist clients to determine appropriate
objectives that will support the organization's human resource strategies and business
objectives. His consulting approach is to help organizations define human resource and
compensation strategies in the context of the value system and business goals of the
organization, and then to design and implement programs that best support these goals. Mr.
Sumner believes that full participation and interaction of the client are key elements
that ensure desired results are achieved in the consulting relationship.
Consulting areas of concentration include: managing career transition
designing and implementing base salary and management incentive programs, and broad based
employee alternative reward systems; developing executive compensation arrangements;
designing team based pay systems and field sales and sales management compensation
arrangements. Other areas of expertise include: developing performance management systems;
conducting competitive market analyses; establishing general personnel policies;
conducting custom compensation surveys; and analyzing and establishing organization and
job design effectiveness.
Mr. Sumner holds a B. A. Degree from Illinois Wesleyan University and
an MBA from the University of Chicago.
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