Jannice Koors

Jannice Lynn Koors (Jan) is a senior managing director with Pearl Meyer and head of consulting services. In this role, Jan is focused on leveraging the firm’s consulting capabilities and enhancing relationships with our national marketing partners. Jan joined Pearl Meyer in 2001, have had prior experience in the consulting practices of Tower Perrin (now WTW), Price Waterhouse, and SCA Consulting.

Jan has more than 35 years’ experience in executive compensation and governance and has consulted to companies of all sizes and industries. She advises company boards and management teams on all aspects of strategic human capital decision-making. Jan helps companies deconstruct their long-term value creation objectives into tailored HR strategies that go beyond simple competitive parity-designing programs that consider a company’s specific business strategy, management talent, and corporate culture.

A noted expert in the field, Jan has been quoted in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Marketplace, and Financial Times. She has appeared on CNN’s MoneyLine and NBC Nightly News, and has spoken at numerous seminars on executive and director compensation issues. In 2025, Jan was named for the eighteenth time to the NACD D100 list of the most influential people in corporate governance. She
is an NACD Governance Fellow and serves as faculty for NACD’s Master Class programs. She leads Pearl Meyer’s national relationship with NACD, Women Corporate Directors
and World at Work.

Jan and her husband Jay are very committed to education efforts in Chicago. Jan is on the board of The Big Shoulders Fund, where she and her husband have a scholarship
fund for underprivileged middle school students. She and Jay are also involved with Marwen (where Jay is on the board) which provides after-school art programs for under-resourced schools and communities.

Jan is a graduate of Wellesley College, and is a member of the Wellesley Business Leadership Council.