About Us

Nationally recognized as a leading compensation authority, JFK Consulting provides personal service with single-minded focus on the success of your program. Our list of satisfied clients — in the U.S. and internationally — includes public and privately held companies of all sizes, as well as non-profit organizations.

Biography of Managing Director

Janet F. Koechel is a seasoned compensation expert with over 25 years of experience in human resources. As Managing Director of JFK Consulting, Inc., she specializes in the design of strategic compensation programs for domestic and multinational companies. Since its inception, her company has provided Total Compensation Solutions to companies spanning such industries as retail, telecommunications, manufacturing, defense, ecommerce, software, and high technology services. Some of her clients include Aon Consulting, Blockbuster, Bombardier, Handango, Mosaic Software, Nissan USA, Nokia, ORC Worldwide, Raytheon, Securus Technologies, Trane, Trinity Industries, Verizon Wireless, and World Avenue.

Having served as both an internal and external consultant, Koechel has a wealth of experience in designing competitive rewards systems in a variety of business environments. Some of her projects have included mergers and acquisitions; market pricing, performance management, sales compensation design and development of new executive total compensation plans. In addition, she has developed creative communications materials to help improve comprehension and ensure the success of new reward programs for regional and national implementation.

A certified compensation professional or “CCP” since 1981, she is an approved instructor with WorldatWork (formerly the American Compensation Association). She is also a very active member of the North Texas Compensation Association. Janet has published articles in a variety of compensation venues including ACA News, and workspan, the news magazine for WorldatWork. In addition, she was asked to contribute articles to the NTCA website for The Comp Doctor over the last several years. Recently, she co-authored an article for the WorldatWork publication, now in its second printing, Survey Handbook and Directory entitled, “Fundamentals of Salary Surveys.” A frequent presenter at national and regional human resources conferences, she has spoken on topics such as performance measures, mergers and acquisitions, salary surveys, incentive plan design, gender pay discrimination, FLSA compliance and related topics.

Ms. Koechel holds a bachelors degree from Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio and is a member of WorldatWork and the Society for Human Resources Management or SHRM. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from WorldatWork for contributions to the compensation and benefits profession.