Kelly Satterfield is a strategic, data-driven people executive focused on rethinking how work is structured, measured, and reinforced as organizations move beyond traditional job-based models. As a Rewards and Recognition Executive at Awardco, she partners with organizations to design and scale recognition strategies that reinforce desired behaviors, align incentives to outcomes, and elevate the employee experience.

Kelly has led global talent, job architecture, and employee experience efforts, building people analytics, HR technology, and workforce planning capabilities across complex, distributed organizations. Her work helps leaders translate people and talent data into practical decisions that support agility and scale. With a systems-level perspective, she brings a practitioner’s lens to how work is structured, measured, and reinforced, where skills- and task-based approaches gain traction, and what this shift means for HR operating models and the future of work.