Deborah Sands is the Total Rewards Director at Employers Mutual Casualty Company, where she provides strategic leadership over the organization’s total rewards portfolio within Human Resources. She partners with enterprise and HR leadership to align compensation and benefits strategies with business priorities, workforce needs, and long‑term organizational sustainability.  She brings a disciplined, enterprise-wide perspective to designing rewards programs that support talent attraction, engagement, and retention in a competitive labor market.

In her role, Deborah also supports the compensation committees by helping ensure informed decision‑making through thoughtful rewards strategy, market awareness, and governance‑focused insight. She brings an enterprise mindset to designing and stewarding programs that promote competitiveness, talent retention, and responsible pay practices in a dynamic labor market.