July Virtual: Personalized Approaches To Family Health

Eve Rodsky is working to change society one partnership at a time by coming up with a new 21st-century solution to an age-old problem: women shouldering 2/3 or more of the unpaid domestic work and childcare for their homes and families.

Eve transformed a “blueberries breakdown” into a catalyst for social change when she applied her Harvard-trained background in organizational management to ask the simple yet profound question: What would happen if we treated our homes as our most important organizations? Her New York Times bestselling book and Reese’s Book Club Pick, Fair Play, a gamified life-management system that helps partners rebalance their domestic workload and reimagine their relationship, has elevated the cultural conversation about the value of unpaid labor and care. In her highly anticipated follow-up, Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World, Rodsky explores the cross-section between the science of creativity, productivity, and resilience. Described as the “antidote to physical, mental and emotional burnout,” Rodsky aims to inspire a new narrative around the equality of time and the individual right to personal time choice that influences sustainable and lasting change on a policy level. 

Rodsky’s work is backed by Hello Sunshine, Reese Witherspoon’s media company, whose mission is to change the narrative for women through storytelling. Rodsky was born and raised by a single mom in New York City and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband Seth and their three children.

Lydia Dishman is Fast Company’s senior editor for growth and engagement. She has also written for CBS Moneywatch, Fortune, The Guardian, Popular Science, and the New York Times, among others.

Arturo is a total tewards leader with more than 30 years of experience working with international companies, with a solid academic education and a span of global experience across multiple leadership roles in consulting, finance, and rewards. He had a career of more than 16 years at Mars, Inc. and currently leads the Total Rewards strategy for a 30,000+ collaborators business in the veterinary industry.

Samantha Purciello is a Sales Strategy Manager at Carrot Fertility, the leading global fertility care platform for women, plus people of every age, race, income, sex, sexual orientation, gender, marital status, and geography. In her role, Samantha partners with teams across Carrot to identify opportunities to further enhance products and services while driving employer sales.

Prior to joining Carrot, Samantha started her career in Mercer’s Total Health Management practice, helping employers strategize and implement population health strategies for their workforces. Over her more than seven years at Mercer, Samantha specialized in inclusive family planning, where she was responsible for educating employers on trends in the marketplace and helping strategize how to enhance family planning benefits. Samantha was also tapped as a fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits expert, with her insights included in Bloomberg, CNBC, and Quartz stories.

Samantha earned her bachelor’s degree in healthcare management from the University of Connecticut, and now lives in Stratford, CT.

Lila Seidman is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times’ yearlong initiative exploring various facets of mental health. The project will marry her graduate work in clinical psychology and more than 10 years of journalism experience. Since joining The Times in 2020, Seidman has served on the breaking news and utility desks, where’s she written about Indigenous communities, wildfires threatening giant trees and fishing the L.A. River. Previously, she covered City Hall for Glendale News-Press, then part of Times Community News.

A native Angeleno, Seidman cut her teeth as a freelancer at L.A. Weekly, Patch and other local outlets. She’s reported for a variety of publications, including the Daily Journal, a statewide legal publication, and the UB Post, an English-language newspaper in Mongolia, and her work has appeared in Gawker and Vice. She briefly deflected from the sun and smog of L.A. to attend Reed College in Portland, Ore., where she earned a degree in Russian and psychology. She’s working toward a master’s degree in clinical psychology at Pepperdine University, with plans to become a licensed marriage and family therapist.

Jeanne Walsh is responsible for overall strategic leadership in the design, development and success of BSC’s competitive and innovative North America Benefits and Global Mobility programs. She partners closely with Senior Business Leaders and HR Business Partners to translate business strategy into meaningful programs that meet the organization's needs and investment in its talent. She is Chair of the BSC Employee Benefits Committee and participates in multiple Employee Resource Groups.

Candace Damon, FSA, MAAA has been at Northwestern Mutual for 20+ years.  In her current role, she has responsibility the design of compensation, benefits, and recognition programs for the independent contractors of the Northwestern Mutual distribution system that are geographically disbursed across the United States. She achieves this through strong partnership with others in the home office as well as members of distribution.. 

Prior to this role, Candace led the Planning and Sales Analytics team with accountability for determining the return on investment for a variety of programs and dissecting sales results.  In addition, she led the administrative function of the department with responsibility for cross-functional alignment., leading the prioritization process, and budget management.

Candace started in the Actuarial department and has held a number of roles in a variety of functions within the Company.

She received her Bachelor of Science in Mathematical Studies from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and her Master’s in Business Administration from Alverno College.   She has her Series 7 and Series 24, is a Fellow in the Society of Actuaries, and is a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

She has served on the Board for Gift of Adoption and the Diversity Committee of the SOA.  She is a co-owner of two micro-companies focused on teaching her daughters life skills and raising money for non-profit organizations

Dana Kirwin joined Medela in 2019 and leads the strategy and solutions for Employer and Government Relations, with the goal of expanding how Medela’s deep insight and expertise around the breastfeeding journey contributes to improving the experience for breastfeeding parents. Prior to Medela, Dana worked at both Optum and Medtronic and brings more than 16 years of experience in the employer benefits and population health space.

As a working mom herself, Dana understands the challenges faced by both employers and new parents during the return-to-work transition. She is passionate about driving policy changes that provide more support and protections for growing families, and helping employers better understand how they can attract, retain, and engage the valuable segment of working moms and parents in their employee population. 

Dana graduated from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, and currently lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two children.

Gloria Estrada has more than 25 years of experience in HR, mostly in technology companies.
Responsibilities include providing leadership in all areas of Total Rewards, working closely with
Compensation and Human Capital Committees of Boards, leading M&A HR teams, HR services
and Global Payroll teams, additionally working closely with the business as an HR Business
Partner. Various levels of these responsibilities have been carried out at Keysight Technologies
currently, Agilent Technologies, Hewlett Packard, Applied Materials and Telemundo. She leads teams and provides the vision to help the HR function tie into the company’s business focus, culture, success, and affordability. She hold a BS in Economics and a BS in Language Studies.

Angela Nelson is the Executive Director, Clinical Services for RethinkCare. She oversees RethinkCare’s consultation services and content generation for our industry leading Parental Success solution. She specializes in working with parents raising children and teens with learning, social, and behavioral challenges, as well as organizations motivated to best support their employees with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Angela holds a master’s degree in Counseling, a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from UCLA, and is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA). She is currently pursuing her doctorate in Education with a specialization in organizational behavior change.

Gregg Nevola is the Vice President and Chief Well-being Officer for Northwell Health. The organization has an annual operating budget of more than $13.5 billion and a workforce comprised of more than 80,000 employees, making it the largest private employer in New York State. Northwell has been awarded the 2021 and 2022 Healthiest 100 award as well as one of Fortune’s Best Places to Work in 2021 and 2022. The health system is comprised of 23 hospitals, several long- term care facilities, an internationally recognized medical research institute, New York State’s first new allopathic medical school in more than 40 years, the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and over 4,500 employed physicians.

Gregg oversees all of Total Wellbeing, which is comprised of multiple departments including Benefits (Operations & Strategy), Joint Ventures, EAP (Employee Assistance Program), Wellness and EHS (Employee Health Services). Gregg is responsible for overseeing the strategy, operations and execution of all Northwell’s rewards programs, which includes $800 million in medical benefits and retirement programs with over $10 billion in assets. Gregg previously worked for Adecco, a global HR solutions firm with over 30,000 employees around the world. There he spent more than 12 years overseeing benefits management and administration, including retirement , incentive plan design and administration, HRIS, payroll and other key HR functions. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from Hofstra University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Binghamton University. He is also a Certified Employee Benefits Specialist. Additionally, he is a Board Member for Bethpage Federal Credit Union and is an Associate Trustee of the 1199 National Benefit and Pension Fund.

Dan brings 20 years of experience in sales, marketing, and business management to his role at KinderCare Learning Companies. In his time with KinderCare, his leadership has accelerated the growth of Champions, our Before and After School brand, allowing our best-in-class programming to serve more children and families with our brand of authentic engagement.

Most recently, his role has extended to include KinderCare at Work, where he is looking forward to continuing to extend the same leadership mindset.

Prior to joining KinderCare, Dan worked in the K-12 educational software segment, where he helped create and lead the acceptance and growth of digital subscriptions for both schools and publishers. As a father of four, Dan is passionate about helping children learn.

Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza is a freelance journalist and From Day One contributing editor who writes about work, the job market, and women’s experiences in the workplace. Her work has appeared in the BBC, The Washington Post, Quartz at Work, Fast Company, and Digiday’s Worklife.

Kristy has 15 years of experience as a Strategic Human Resource Leader, Change Manager and Organizational Development Expert. She has served in senior leadership positions throughout her career – most notably with Pearson Education and Constant Contact. Kristy brings a big picture perspective and a hands-on, tactical approach to her leadership that she is now bringing to life with SkillCycle (where she is the CEO & Co- Founder). Kristy’s goal is to help and educate companies to meet their ultimate goals by empowering their employees to take ownership of their career.

David Adamson, MD, FRCSC, FACOG, FACS is a reproductive endocrinologist and surgeon, Founder, Chairman and CEO of ARC Fertility, and Clinical Professor at Stanford University and University of California San Francisco.

Dr. Adamson practiced clinical medicine for more than three decades, helping thousands of patients on their fertility journeys with compassionate care, supportive emotional counseling, and treatment using the most sophisticated reproductive technologies. He has more than 300 peer-reviewed and scientific/medical publications on topics including evidence-based standards of care, cost effectiveness, optimizing outcomes, emotional aspects of fertility, access to care, affordability, and gender equity. He led the development of several innovative digital health care tools that are now used globally and in the ARC Fertility employer program. He is an internationally recognized leader in infertility, fertility care and family building.

Based on his extensive and deep experience, in 1997 Dr. Adamson founded ARC Fertility, the leading national network of family building specialists. The ARC Fertility Employer Family Building Program provides inclusive, supportive, comprehensive, cost-effective quality navigation and care with validated superior outcomes.

Dr. Anupam Goel is a practicing general internist and clinical informaticist. He joined Accolade's care solutions group to help deploy remote chronic disease monitoring. Previously, he worked with Accolade’s case management team to support the company’s largest customers. He practices in the virtual primary care model.

Katie is a healthcare advocacy and navigation veteran, having served her 13 year tenure at Accolade in roles across service operations, product and now as the Accolade’s Advocacy Solutions Lead.  She’s an expert in the company’s proprietary engagement and influence model and has launched several of Accolade’s flagship user applications, including the brand new buyer portal, featuring the True Health Dashboard.

Dr. Madison Randolph has her doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology and holds a certification in perinatal mental health. She is a registered psychological associate at Oaks Psychological Services. Dr. Randolph believes that through an individualized process, treatment goals can be developed to achieve growth, change, and success. Dr. Randolph creates a compassionate and motivating environment where her clients can reach their goals as well as learn effective strategies that can be maintained after therapy. Dr. Randolph works with individuals to create and sustain meaningful growth as well as change in their life. She utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness-based concepts as part of her therapeutic approach to creating a compassionate and motivating environment.

Christopher Smith is the Vice President, Benefits at Universal Music Group.