Beth Carroll

Beth Carroll, CCP, GRP, CSCP

FOUNDER & CEO

Hi! I’m Beth Carroll, the Founder and CEO of Prosperio Group.

For over 25 years I have been developing compensation plans to help companies large and small from all industries maximize, focus and improve employee engagement and morale throughout their organizations. I believe compensation is both the lens through which organizational problems can be viewed best as well as often the best tool to solve those problems. Prosperio Group customers almost always comment that the work we do stretches beyond compensation; we offer insight into business goals, strategy clarification, organizational design, organizational psychology, and human motivation theory. While compensation design guides the process, we love it that clients consistently comment that we provide far more value than simply delivering new compensation plans.

My educational background is quite varied and represents the “broken road” that often leads people exactly where they need to go, but where they never would have dreamed of going. I grew up in the Washington, DC area, the youngest of four daughters raised by a Mathematical Scientist who worked for NASA and a Public School Librarian. One of my older sisters is a high school math teacher with two Masters Degrees, and another is a PhD Clinical Psychologist. For those of you who know me, that should explain a lot! We moved to rural West Virginia when I was in Junior High when my father took an early retirement from the government to become a math professor at Shepherd College.

I went to Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA where I completed a double major in English and Religion before heading to Chicago with the aim to become a religion professor. I finished a Master of Arts and two years of Doctorate work at The University of Chicago Divinity School before deciding that abject poverty was not a career downside I could afford. A sharp right turn took me to a job in a law firm and an evening MBA program at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.

When I completed my MBA, I joined Towers Perrin’s (now Willis Towers Watson) Strategy and Organization practice, where I quickly gravitated toward Sales Force Effectiveness work. Worlds collided as my math and science background fused with my interest in human psychology and communication…it all connected through incentive compensation design and management.

I spent 10 years with Willis Towers Watson focusing on Sales Compensation Design, working with many Fortune 500 and multinational accounts, including Bosch, Kohler, Bank of America, Herman Miller, Fifth Third Bank, and Solae to name a few. I worked my way up from newbie to running my own projects, and saw ample opportunity to provide the same high quality design process to a broader client base - with a focus on longer term relationships.

In January 2008, I left Towers to join The Cygnal Group, a firm founded by another former Towers Perrin employee. I was a Co-owner of Cygnal Group until 2011, when my honed focus on the Transportation and Logistics Industry demanded its own brand identity. For a time, I ran Cygnal TLC as a sister company to The Cygnal Group, and in 2012 rebranded to Prosperio Group.

In the years since 2008, my team has worked with over 500 Transportation & Logistics companies; we are constantly amazed at the opportunities and appreciation for our services provided to this industry. Never would I have imagined ending up here…but I am so grateful to be here.  While our industry specialization is Transportation, Logistics, and Supply Chain, we continue to work with manufacturing companies, food ingredient companies, and any industry or company that seeks to drive greater performance using commissions, bonuses, pay for performance programs, or any type of variable pay arrangement.

I have a husband, John Carroll, who helps out with the business, four stepchildren, and three biological children, one of whom has been an employee since 2020! I enjoy traveling (which is pretty much a job requirement) and use my many frequent flier miles to explore new locations around the globe…looking for adventures and new clients to help.