Mae Lon Ding, MBA, CCP
— Personnel Systems Associates, Inc.
Areas of Expertise: Benefits & Compensation
Mae Lon Ding consults in the areas of employee compensation, employee productivity improvement, performance appraisal, personnel management policy and practice, and personnel information systems. She also provides expert witness testimony in legal cases involving employment discrimination, employee wage and benefit loss, pay discrimination, employment opportunity/labor market analysis, and reasonable compensation. Ms. Ding has been a consultant since 1978 and has worked for several major personnel management and training consulting firms including the Wyatt Company, the Forum Corporation, Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co., R. A. Smith & Associates, and Baker Thomsen Associates.
She has consulted with organizations in retail, wholesale, government, banking, financial services, health care, high technology, insurance, manufacturing, and service industries. Her clients have included the following:
- U.S. Federal Reserve Bank
- Shearson Lehman Mortgage Company
- Easter Seal Society
- Wells Fargo Bank
- Smith International
- Memorial Medical Center Long Beach
- National Education Corporation
- ARCO
- KPMG Main Hurdman
- National Bank of Long Beach
- Arkwright Boston Insurance
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- PacifiCare
- Health Systems
- Memorial Health Technology
- Mattel Inc.
- Parker Bertea Aerospace
- TransAmerica Corporation
- Newhall Land and Farm
- Barclay Bank International
- Wells Fargo Mortgage Company
- Freedom Newspapers
- California Hardware
- Rural Metro Corporation
- Calif. Assoc. of Realtors MJB
- ARC International
- Phelps Dodge Corporation
- ARCS Mortgage Co./Bank of New York
- Farmers Insurance Group
- The Sibson Company
- Bay Clubs International/Balboa Bay Club
- Ingram Micro
- Pillsbury, Madison, & Sutro
- J. C. Penney
- Strouds Linen Warehouse
- The Sevrin Group/Gucci Watches
Ms. Ding teaches seminars nationwide in the areas of salary administration, incentive compensation, performance appraisal, supervisory skills, EEO law, and personnel computer systems. She is an instructor for the professional certification program of World at Work (formerly American Compensation Assoc.) She has taught classes for the personnel management certification programs at the University of California at Irvine and at the California State Universities in Long Beach and Pomona. She has also been an instructor for the Masters of Human Resources program at Chapman University. Groups she has been asked to speak before include:
- Women Inc. Conference
- Group Health Association of America Conference
- Professionals in Human Resources Annual Convention
- Society of Human Resource Managers National Convention
- Chain Restaurant Compensation Association National Convention
- American Compensation Association National Convention
- Mortgage Banker's Association National Convention
Ms. Ding has had articles published in the Journal of Compensation and Benefits, Personnel, The Personnel News, Workforce Magazine, the Chapman University Economic Review, and the Forensic Consultants Association News. She has been quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Business Week, Workforce Magazine, HR Executive, and the Chicago Tribune. She is author of Survey Sources, For U.S. and International Employee Pay and Benefits a bibliography of over 1500 surveys. She received her MBA from the University of Southern California and has a BA from UCLA in Industrial Psychology. Ms. Ding is designated as a Certified Compensation Professional. She is a past president of the Association of Professional Consultants and is a past officer of the Expert Witness Association (formerly Forensic Consultants Association of Orange County).