Nicole Schmidt
Owner of HR Reward Strategies LLC

At Reward Strategies, we believe that when employees are happy and fairly compensated, they are more likely to invest in their roles, deliver exceptional performance, and remain loyal to your company. Our goal is to help you build a workforce that is motivated, engaged, and committed to your company’s success.

  • Results oriented, strategic human resources professional with over 20 years of progressive experience in various industries which include financial services, insurance, global manufacturing and non-profit sectors.
  • Provides sound advice to senior management regarding employee total rewards. Our focus is to work with you to develop strategies regarding organizational design, recruitment, performance management,  succession planning,  retention,  and pay equity review.
  • Maintains an exceptional level of confidentiality and integrity.
  • Passion to work with business managers in developing competitive total rewards strategies which include base, incentive/bonus, and benefit valuation throughout the employee’s life-cycle.  
  • Exceptional collaborative and partnership skills used in determining HR needs, facilitating change and increasing employee effectiveness to support the business strategy.
  • Proven success in organizational realignment to ensure internal fairness and market pay levels.
  • Strong knowledge of the job evaluation process to include know-how, problem-solving and accountability requirements when determining appropriate pay levels.
  • Coordinated overall total reward strategies with managers to attract, engage and retain their key employees through performance management and succession planning..