Michael F. Maciekowich is a National Director for Astron Solutions. His areas of expertise include the development, design, and implementation of executive, physician, and employee base pay, short and long term incentive programs, sales incentive programs and performance management systems in all industries. His primary focus is the integration of compensation and human resource strategies with organization-specific missions, visions, values, and strategic operating plans.

Michael has over twenty-five years of consulting and industry compensation experience. Prior to Astron, Michael was the National Director of Healthcare Rewards Consulting and the Metro New York Operations Manager for Rewards Consulting for the Hay Group. He was also compensation consultant with a number of consulting firms, including Towers Perrin (Senior Consultant), Hartstein Associates (Vice President), Adams, Nash & Haskell (Vice President), The Omni Group (Vice President and Partner), and Modern Management (Senior Consultant). In these roles, he focused on the role compensation plays in human resources and labor avoidance strategies. He has assisted hundreds organizations in his twenty plus years of consulting. Prior to his consulting career, Michael was responsible for compensation services at the American Hospital Association, Honeywell International, and Zenith Electronics.

Michael is a sought-after speaker in compensation program design. He is a regular speaker for the national conference of the American Society of Healthcare Human Resource Administration (ASHHRA) regarding healthcare compensation and performance management strategies. In addition, he has presented to numerous local ASHHRA and Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) chapters.

Michael is an active member of WorldatWork (former American Compensation Association), American Society of Healthcare Human Resource Administration, Society for Human Resource Management, and SHRM’s Consultants Forum. He is also a member of various local and state human resource associations in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Upstate New York, Greater New York City, and Louisiana. Michael is a member of the International Who’s Who of Professionals. He received a lifetime achievement award from WorldatWork.

Michael received bachelor’s degrees in political science and philosophy and a master’s degree in industrial relations from the Loyola University of Chicago.