Alex Birkholz

Alex Birkholz is a consultant with Gallagher's Compensation and Rewards practice. Alex brings experience working with a diverse range of healthcare organizations, including large systems, community hospitals, healthcare associations and specialty organizations. Alex offers additional experience working in the construction and utility industries, conducting leadership interviews, analyzing historical pay data, designing long-term incentive plans and reviewing short-term incentive plans.

Alex has more than five years of consulting experience in multiple industries. Before joining Gallagher, he worked as a consultant for Carlson Wagonlit Travel, managing clients throughout the hotel sourcing, report optimization and final review processes. He has extensive experience analyzing financial data, improving processes and forecasting trends.

Alex received a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing Management from the Opus College of Business at the University of St. Thomas.

Professional highlights

• Has experience working with staff through CEO compensation in the healthcare industry
• Conducts structured pay equity analyses and reports to identify unjustified differences in pay
• Administers CEO performance evaluation surveys to help organizations identify areas for improvement and highlight successes
• Collaborates to build long-term incentive plan models to estimate stock valuations for participants