Tony Kerekes
Available to Speak:
Virtual and in-person
About Tony
In 25 years of consulting, Tony has successfully completed over two hundred consulting initiatives – providing strategic and implementation guidance for a wide variety of industries and sectors, with clients from smaller private companies to global organizations. Through effective people strategies, his focus is always on ensuring employees are informed, engaged, rewarded and aligned to the organization’s goals. He has worked with a wide range of organizations on strategy, change, engagement, compensation, roles, structure, staying focused and performance. Tony has served on the boards of Human Resources Professionals (HRPA) and NFP, led an HR tech company, and served as an adjudicator on a national learning awards program. He currently chairs two MacKay peer-learning forums of Chief HR Officers of a cross section of organizations from 500-8,000 employees. He has presented at a variety of forums, is an Executive in Residence in Ivey’s HBA program and teaches compensation at the University of Toronto.
Areas of Expertise
Tony Kerekes helps CEOs make smart talent decisions at the intersection of culture, compensation, and performance—especially as the gig economy reshapes how companies attract and retain people. With deep consulting experience in organizational design, pay and performance management, and transformation, he translates workforce trends into practical actions: how to structure roles, align incentives, and communicate compensation in ways that improve engagement and results.
- Gig economy & workforce trends
- Talent management strategy; Compensation design
- Pay-for-performance
- Performance management
- Organizational design
- Total rewards communication
- Employee engagement
- HR strategy
- Organizational transformation
Types of Events
Best for CEO forums and executive/CHRO audiences who want a practical, plain-English briefing on the gig economy and compensation/performance—plus discussion and Q&A on what to change inside their own talent systems.
Common Engagements
- CEO Forum meetings
- Executive peer groups
- CHRO/People leader roundtables
- Leadership offsites
- Culture & talent sessions
- Compensation/performance workshops
- Panels
- Keynotes
- Q&A sessions
