Sarah Payne

Sarah Payne is Director of Rewards, USA at Xoxoday, a global platform for employee, customer, and partner rewards, incentives, and recognition programs. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, she works at the intersection of total rewards strategy and workplace culture, helping organizations build recognition and incentive programs that people actually feel.

Sarah's specialty

Sarah focuses on how rewards and recognition programs can be designed to strengthen culture rather than simply check a box. She has spoken publicly on what it takes to build workplace cultures where both people and leaders can thrive, bringing a practitioner's view of total rewards into conversations about engagement, retention, and leadership. Her work sits inside Xoxoday's broader platform, which spans recognition, incentives, and loyalty programs used by organizations to motivate employees, customers, and partners.

Topics Sarah speaks on

• Total rewards strategy and program design
• Employee recognition as a culture-building tool
• Building workplace cultures where people and leaders can thrive
• Incentives and engagement program design
• Retention through meaningful recognition

Connect

• Sarah Payne on LinkedIn
• Xoxoday

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