From Job Content to Defensible Compensation: Governing Skills Data for 2026

What you'll learn:

Skills data shouldn't be a black box. If you can’t see it, you can’t fix it—and you definitely can’t price it.

In this session, experts from JDX, BetterComp, and Deloitte cut through the noise to discuss the reality of skills governance. We’re moving past the "one-and-done" project mindset and getting into the systems that actually keep your data clean, current, and defensible.

Watch now to learn:

  • Why 50% of orgs are making pay decisions with major blind spots.
  • The critical difference between having a "skills library" and having governance.
  • How to stop feeding "garbage in" to your AI tools and start building a Job Data System of Record.
  • Practical steps to turn skills data from a chaotic mess into a defensible compensation strategy for 2026.

About the presenter(s)

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Theresa Hatcher

Customer Success Director, BetterComp

Theresa Hatcher has built a career supporting equitable compensation work, as a compensation practitioner and a comptech customer success leader. As BetterComp's Customer Success Director, Theresa leads the customer support and enablement teams, ensuring timely, informative support and delivering product education to help compensation teams understand how to maximize their use of BetterComp. 

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Sheila Sever

Specialist Leader, Total Rewards, Deloitte

For more than 20 years, Sheila Sever has worked in both consulting and corporate environments, advising organizations across financial services, energy, healthcare, technology, life sciences, manufacturing, consumer products, and nonprofit sectors. A Senior Manager in Deloitte’s Human Capital practice, Sheila specializes in Total Rewards strategy and execution, with expertise spanning executive, broad-based, and sales compensation. Her work includes designing and implementing compensation philosophies and reward frameworks, developing incentive plans, conducting market assessments, and managing customized compensation surveys. She also supports compliance audits related to labor regulations such as the Fair Labor Standards Act. She holds a BS in Business Education from Texas A&M University and is a WorldatWork Certified Compensation Professional (CCP®).

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Paul Smith

Technical Product Manager, JDXpert

Paul Smith SHRM-CP is a Technical Product Manager at JDXpert, where he leads initiatives that modernize how organizations define, manage, and operationalize skills across their workforce. With a background that bridges HR strategy, product development, and systems integration, Paul helps companies turn static job data into dynamic, skills-based intelligence that supports better hiring, development, and pay decisions.