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Anne Marie La Bue is Vice President, Compensation & Benefits Counsel at Assurant, a leading global business services company supporting the advancement of the connected world. La Bue joined Assurant after serving as Associate General Counsel for GCP Applied Technologies, a specialty construction chemical and building materials company, and Cardinal Health, a Fortune Top 20 healthcare services and products company. La Bue provides strategic advice to senior management on compensation and benefit matters across the enterprise and supports the Compensation and Talent Committee of the Board in its oversight of executive compensation and talent management. Her work is integral in supporting the organization through transformative changes including realignment of the executive team, evolution of benefits strategy, and modernization of plan governance.
Anne Marie earned a Juris Doctor from Boston University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts from Boston University. She obtained her Certified Specialist designation in Labor & Employment Law, is a Lean Six Sigma Certified Project Sponsor, and maintains the highest Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent rating given to attorneys for professional excellence for their legal expertise,communication skills, and ethical standards by their peers. She resides in Greater Boston and is an active member of the Association of Corporate Counsel, Northeast Chapter.

Rebecca Knight is a journalist who writes about all things related to the changing nature of careers and the workplace. She is a contributing columnist for Harvard Business Review and her essays and reported stories have been featured in The Boston Globe, Business Insider, The New York Times, BBC, and The Christian Science Monitor. She was shortlisted as a Reuters Institute Fellow at Oxford University in 2023. Earlier in her career, she spent a decade as an editor and reporter at the Financial Times in New York, London, and Boston.

Rebecca frequently appears on national television and radio and as a moderator at conferences. Originally from Maine, she's a graduate of Wesleyan University. She lives in Boston’s South End with her family.