Shari Dunn

Managing Director and National Practice Leader

Gallagher Human Resources Compensation Consulting Practice

Upon receiving her B.A. degree in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley, Ms. Dunn headed to New York City to take a position in the human resources department of the Marine Midland Bank and later worked at Nabisco in operations research. Returning to the San Francisco Bay Area, she became a Research Associate for McKinsey & Co. Next, she moved to Deloitte (then Touche Ross) as a consultant. It was at these two prominent consulting firms that she became knowledgeable about the challenges associated with paying employees effectively and also gained high-level strategic consulting experience. Recognizing the additional value of applied corporate experience, she then spent the next ten years in compensation management positions with Fibreboard Corporation, Boise Cascade, Bank of America, and Castle & Cooke, where she worked both domestically and internationally.

In addition to her management and consulting activities, Ms. Dunn is a well-known speaker and regularly leads seminars and workshops on employee compensation and related issues for a variety of audiences. She has published a number of articles and white papers, and also serves as an expert witness in connection with wage and hour litigation and other compensation matters.

She is the former President of the 5,000 + member Northern California Human Resources Association (NCHRA), formerly one of the nations’ largest chapters of the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM). In addition, she maintains active memberships in the Bay Area Compensation Association and WorldatWork (formerly the American Compensation Association).