When employees see a future—through clear career and pay growth, they work with greater commitment and purpose.
Acera Partners aligns skills, strategy, and structure to unlock internal mobility and build a workforce that evolves with business needs.
The result? Teams that adapt faster, perform stronger, and stay longer – unleashing talent agility for the organization.
When employees see a future—through clear career and pay growth, they work with greater commitment and purpose.
Acera Partners aligns skills, strategy, and structure to unlock internal mobility and build a workforce that evolves with business needs.
The result? Teams that adapt faster, perform stronger, and stay longer – unleashing talent agility for the organization.
The challenge facing organizations today isn’t a shortage of people—it’s a shortage of the right skills in the right roles. A widening gap between workforce capabilities and evolving business demands is creating a skills crisis, not simply a talent shortage.
To stay competitive, organizations must move beyond external hiring and build systems that realign internal skills with strategic needs. That means enabling people to reskill, upskill, and mobilize—not by chance, but by design.
This requires flexible career pathways, greater transparency, and compensation strategies that reward learning, adaptability, and growth. When employees can clearly see how their development connects to career progression and pay, they’re more empowered and more prepared to deliver what the business needs next.
The result? A more agile, future-ready workforce built from within.
In 2025, employees aren’t just leaving for higher pay—they’re leaving because they don’t see a path forward. According to LinkedIn, the top reasons employees are walking away include a lack of internal mobility, unfulfilled desire for meaningful work, and pay that doesn’t reflect their value.
To retain talent and build true agility, career growth and compensation must function as one strategic system: designed to reinforce value, enable movement, and fuel purpose. That’s what Acera Partners does best. We help organizations:
Acera Partners helps organizations grow by aligning people, strategy, and structure. We design agile workforce strategies, compensation systems, and job architecture that drive retention, unlock internal mobility, and fuel business performance.
By coaching executives to lead through ambiguity with clarity and purpose—and placing HR leaders who
champion agile talent strategies—we help turn strategy into sustained performance.
We design and deliver workforce strategies that unlock growth, accelerate value creation, and drive sustained performance.
We design agile job architecture that links career pathways and compensation—enabling organizations to adapt, compete, and thrive amid evolving workforce demands.
We design performance-driven compensation strategies that align individual contribution with business growth—motivating talent and reinforcing impact.
We partner with organizations to identify and place HR leaders who accelerate talent strategy, deliver business success, and shape a workforce built for growth.
We develop purpose-driven leaders with the resilience to lead through uncertainty—turning personal strengths into team performance and organizational growth.
Organizations must proactively establish pay strategies that recognize and reward skill development and organizational impact. This includes creating compensation plans that motivate employees to continually enhance their capabilities and align career progression with the organization’s evolving needs. By integrating talent strategies with forward-looking compensation strategies, organizations foster a culture of growth and agility.
Explore Compensation Strategy"Carrie Magee is a true partner, consistently bringing forward thought-provoking insights tied to business outcomes."
"I would highly recommend working with her and her team if you want to drive value creation in your talent and pay practices."
CHRO, Manhattan Associates
"Carrie is so knowledgeable about talent and competitive compensation strategies."
"She is also incredibly insightful and responsive to the challenges I face. I would hire her and her team in a heartbeat to help my organization optimize its talent and pay strategies."
CFO, Global Fortune 100 Automotive Technology Company
"It was a pleasure to work with the Acera team. I greatly appreciated the level of expertise, insights and patience that they brought to our organization."
"Within my former company, we were scattered in terms of compensation philosophy but through Acera’s leadership, together, we built a strong compensation philosophy that aligned with our organizational values and goals. By having a detailed compensation strategy we were able to engage with our people to explain how their contributions fit into the organization and how and why the employee is rewarded. We also gained reliable insight into the market value of our roles as they exist today and how that will continue to evolve through future growth and funding. This will help us make better talent and financial decisions going forward."
Chief Financial Officer at Phunware (NASDAQ: PHUN)
"I have known Anne for over 5 years and she has been a collaborative partner for me across multiple organizations—a go to."
"She takes time to truly understand our business situation and human capital needs and approaches every opportunity with openness and creativity. She models excellence and ensures that every deliverable meets high-quality standards and expectations."
EVP, Chief People and Culture Officer at Zayo Group