Seema Dekhtawala is a Principal at Edgility Consulting, where she brings her extensive experience directing salary, incentive, and targeted broad-based compensation programs in for-profit corporations and leading consulting firms to drive impactful compensation and talent management solutions. With a strong background in global compensation and strategic project management, Seema excels in delivering best-in-class broad-based base pay, and incentive plans and fostering long-term client relationships.

Seema’s role at Edgility encompasses a range of responsibilities, including business development, internal talent development, and serving as an internal compensation expert. She is dedicated to cultivating meaningful client partnerships, mentoring and growing staff, and ensuring alignment with legal compliance best practices in the field.

Seema’s contributions include:

• Implementing market pay benchmarking tools and restructuring annual compensation processes, achieving significant accuracy and efficiency improvements.
• Developing global salary structures and budgets, conducting market analyses, and providing insights to executive leadership on compensation program needs and pay investments.
• Crafting incentive plans, integrating incentive plans for M&A, and creating incentive plan playbooks to ensure alignment with business strategies.
• Driving the design and delivery of comprehensive compensation communications and tools/resources for people managers to make responsible pay decisions.
• Crafting job architectures and typical career paths for global functions, ensuring equitable compensation programs based on job value.
• Partnering on  compensation analyses and pay design for targeted needs, such as for M&A, union contract negotiations, including  assessing impact of non-unionized pay and benefits in a unionized labor environment, and for increasing wage pressures in high turnover, highly skilled and difficult to fill roles.

Before joining Edgility, Seema held key roles at Mondelez, Mercer/Marsh McLennan, Macy’s, BMO Harris Bank, Gogo, University of Chicago Hospitals, Huron Consulting Group, and MillerCoors. Her extensive experience also includes leading compensation and benefits integration for M&A, the creation of Board materials for executive and broad-based pay, designing global salary structures, systems implementations/integrations for global pay programs, and partnering on executive compensation and CD&A disclosure.

Seema holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.