Outsights Partner Tim Bolderson presented on the "Future of Executive Pay" at this Pan European Conference in Paris, held annually by a global professional services firm that helps organizations improve performance through effective people, risk and financial management.

Using Outsights drivers of change research to create a visually stimulating presentation, Tim highlighted several key issues important to this controversial issue, such as shifting values, trust, globalisation and governance. Four skeleton scenarios were also developed to challenge the delegates' thinking about how executives will be rewarded in the coming years, based on levels of trust and open or closed markets. What would would happen to executive pay in the following worlds?

• Low trust world with strong governance
• Freer, high trust world 
• Return of local rules and approaches as national markets take a more prominent approach

Outsights re-visited this issue in February 2009 with a senior group of Government, industry, regulators and academia, using our recent research on the Sigma Scan and the Future of the Global Economy to 2030 to explore how much change is coming down the pipeline, and the options and scenarios to start preparing for. For more information on this work, please contact info@outsights.co.uk.