Darwin Hanson, CEO
The International Center for Enterprise Engagement is now owned by TM Evolution, Brainerd, MN, an 11-year-old compensation, human capital analytics firm. It will focus on using ISO and other public standards for the concrete purpose of better measuring and reporting on the value created by their stakeholder engagement strategies and tactics. Darwin Hanson, TM Evolution Founder and CEO, will assume general management of ICEE.
Hanson, a veteran in compensation, human capital analytics and related technology tools, has extensive experience helping organizations identify the impact of people decisions along with experience supporting ISO-related metrics.
He is assisted by a board of advisors consisting of pioneers in human capital and stakeholder management analytics and reporting along with practitioners and solution providers in all areas of engagement to weigh in on the metrics used in their areas of interest.
Dr. Heiko Mauterer, Senior Advisor, Certifications Oversight
Dr. Mauterer’s primary role is to help maintain the integrity of the ICEE ISO certification through oversight. In addition to serving on the ISO working group that created the ISO 30414 standards, Dr. Mauterer has demonstrated a decades-long commitment to creating value across the organization.
He has 20 years of professional strategic and project management experience in the areas of human resources, banking, compliance, and as well as the application and audits of ISO 30414 certifications. He currently is a board member and Senior Partner for 4C Group AG, a management consultant in people management that is the first company in Germany to offer ISO 30414 certifications. Dr. Mauterer and the 4C group audited the human capital statements of Deutsche Bank in 2020 for conformity with ISO standards.
In addition to his senior posts at 4C Group, he has held senior management positions for KIWI Financial Living AG and Deutsche Bank. He holds degrees from the Technische Universität Berlin and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
Bruce Bolger, Senior Advisor, Stakeholder Management
Bruce Bolger shares Dr. Mauterer’s commitment to ensuring the integrity of the ISO standards. He is President of the Enterprise Engagement Alliance at TheEEA.org, an outreach organization focusing on the development of a formal field to help organizations achieve results through the proactive involvement of all stakeholders. He is an early advocate of Stakeholder Capitalism principles. EEA is publisher of ESM (Engagement Strategies Media) at EnterpriseEngagement.org, which provides ongoing coverage of this new field, and of RRN at RewardsRecognitionNetwork.com. Bolger has over 25 years of management experience in rewards, recognition, and engagement. He was a co-founder of the Forum for People Performance Management and Measurement, a not-for-profit research organization affiliated with Integrated Marketing Communications department in the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University that was dedicated to conducting research in the area of business motivation and engagement until 2010.
Bolger developed a formal curriculum for the development of return-on-investment-based incentive programs in the late 1990s, which is still in use today, as well as the first formal curriculum for Enterprise Engagement in 2009, which provides a tactical implementation process for Stakeholder Capitalism human capital principles. He proposed the first employee engagement standards to the International Organization for Standardization and was involved in their development for two years, and was involved with the development of the education and certification program for ISO 30414 human capital reporting and ISO 10018 people engagement standards along with three former ISO committee members.
Bolger is author of “Enterprise Engagement for CE0s: The Little Blue Book for People-Centric Capitalists” and co-author of “Enterprise Engagement: The Roadmap.”
Advisory Board
Advisors represent different perspectives of stakeholder management and metrics, including employees, customers, distribution and supply chain partners, communities, etc., as well as the specific types of solution providers involved with the highly varied field ranging from culture and communications to DEI and human capital analytics.
Their role is to provide input into core metrics used to measure the impact of specific stakeholder strategies and tactics.
Founding advisors include:
- Mary Anne Comotto, CEO, Partners for Incentives, a 71-year-old incentive and recognition firm offering a complete suite of technologies and program design support through five full-time planners each with years of experience.
- Michael Levy, Founder, CEO, WorkProud, a 23-year-old recognition firm with a end-to-send suite of technologies to align the interests of all stakeholders.
- Dr. Paul White, Ph. D, Founder, Appreciation at Work, a culture enhancement tool in over two-dozen languages used around the world.
More to be named shortly.