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Key Employee Retention & Executive Compensation Strategies
Retain your best people without giving up equity
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HOW You Pay Can Be More
Impactful than WHAT You Pay
Retain Key Employees Without Giving Up Equity
Our business model focuses on one thing: RETENTION. We create compensation strategies that align your business goals with your key employees' life goals so you can win TOGETHER.
Start by knowing what kind of key employee you have
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Designed for Business Owners Who...
✓ Depend on one or more key employees to keep the business running.
✓ Want to retain key employees without giving up equity.
✓ Need executive compensation strategies that go beyond raises, bonuses, and profit sharing.
✓ Are thinking about succession planning or maximizing the value of their life's work.
✓ Want to reward and retain the people who helped build their business.
WHAT MAKES US UNIQUE?
Education
Our first meeting will review ALL of your options when it comes to Compensation. We'll then highlight the 6th Pillar, which we call BUCKETS, to see if these strategies might work for you. What is a BUCKET? We take complex bonus and deferred compensation strategies and cut through the particulars to show you how to use them in an easy to understand way that benefits both you and your key people. Tailored to act as a golden handcuff, a Bucket puts your retention dollars to work. And if you don’t see the value, we’ll send you off with some tips and connects, no consultation fees, no strings attached.
Connection
THIS IS OUR SPECIALITY. While some businesses want to DIY it all, what we do best is be a third party between you and your Key Person. We love doing this because and seeing people’s faces light up when we get to the root of their goals and aspirations. What we’ve found is as close as owners are to their key people, even when they’re friends, its always hard to express themselves in front of their “boss.” Our one-on-one’s with your Key People have been practiced and proven to make the most impact with them, for you. This is the backbone of our personalized plans.
Service
We’re a small company who serves companies that have the same problems as us. We understand the importance of getting and keeping the right people (and the right paperwork!) in place so we make it a point to check in and make sure things are running smoothly when it comes to the backend stuff.
Meet Kevin
"Buckets" author Kevin Monaghan was once the key employee at a booming company… until… the owners got it wrong! Never-ending arguments, frustrations over fair compensation, and threats of employees quitting caused the firm to crash and burn, sending everyone down the ranks and off the track of financial freedom.
Kevin is also an international speaker on retention who loves Buffalo wings dipped in blue cheese (Go Bills!).
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We're not shy and Kevin has taken emergency calls from clients on a Sunday afternoon. If you want to get on a call ASAP, just type "ASAP" in the chat box and we'll call you back as soon as possible.
CEO/FOUNDER
Not Ready for a Consultation?
Start with the book that's helping business owners rethink key employee retention.
Buckets: How Business Legends Keep Their Hustlers
Discover practical strategies for retaining key employees without giving up equity. Learn why traditional compensation plans often fall short—and explore alternatives that reward your people while protecting your business.
✓ Alternatives to equity
✓ Key employee retention strategies
✓ Executive compensation ideas
✓ Succession planning insights
"This book is excellent reading for anyone seeking to remain flexible while lining up the business to run passively, sell, OR transfer ownership."
- Ashley Tison, CEO Opportunity Zone Consultants
"Every Business Owner Needs to Know This. Great insights into who, when, what and how when it comes to incentivizing retention."
Sahaj Patel, CEO Triton Glass
"The author's stories and real-life experiences helps you think about employee retention as a long term investment vs. short term reward."
Jim Pryor, Ardor Commercial
About Us
We are a group of former CEO’s, former erstwhile key employees, budding entrepreneurs, and self-made men and women who know how important keeping the right people on the bus is for your business. We’re here to help you explore all the ways you can win together.
This is Brandon, our business developer. If you're ready to chat, he can walk you through our process and get you on Kevin's calendar.
"Click on the 'Let's Chat!' box in the bottom right hand corner and if you need help getting set up."
Need a Story?
At ICG, we believe in the power of stories—we thrive on them.
Want to see what our work looks like in action? Drop us your email (or follow Kevin on LinkedIn), and we’ll send you a real compensation story that challenged the usual options—and delivered something far more powerful.