A wide range of benefits allows employers to tackle a broad spectrum of their goals, spanning from retaining and engaging employees to promoting diversity and inclusion within the workplace. What are the cutting-edge benefits available that cater to the needs of every worker? How can companies evaluate their workforce needs and cultivate awareness and participation in their offerings? What trends are emerging and what can be expected in the future of benefits?
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VP, Head of Compensation, Benefits, and HR Analytics
SVP of People & Total Rewards
Senior Director
Business Editor
Director of Benefits & Payroll
Adjunct Instructor, Labor Relations
Managing Director, Achievers Workforce Institute
GM & VP of Americas
Director of North America Sales
Manager, Client Success
Chief Commercial Officer
Head of Sales and Partnership Success
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Speaker:
Dan Pikelny, VP, Head of Compensation, Benefits, and HR Analytics, ADT
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The world of work has transformed in exciting ways, placing employees at the heart of the conversation. Employers are now reimagining their pay and benefits strategies to meet the evolving needs of their workforce. Organizations are rising to the challenge, finding innovative ways to balance comprehensive wellbeing programs with financial pressures and profitability goals.
Discover how high-performing companies are achieving relationship breakthroughs by harnessing data and insights to create a total rewards strategy that addresses the full spectrum of employee needs—financial, emotional, physical, and social. These forward-thinking total rewards approaches go beyond pay; they create a truly uplifting and high-performing employee experience that fosters both personal growth and organizational success.
Ingrid Woolfolk, Employee Experience Leader, WTW
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Connecting with workers and understanding them as individuals is essential to building a healthy, productive corporate culture. How can managers be trained to recognize the challenges that workers are facing, both in their work lives and home lives? Can technology be used to create a better, more insightful management response to employee needs? How can point solutions be woven together to create a support structure that both managers and workers understand? What are some of the considerations for supporting workers across all life stages?
Speakers:
Techy Madrid, Director of Benefits & Payroll, Employee Services, Bureau Veritas
Britt Barney, Manager of Client Success, Northstar
Matt Jackson, GM, VP of Americas, Unmind
Moderator:
Kim Quillen, Business Editor, the Chicago Tribune
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Let’s face it, recent trends for healthcare and employer health plan costs are alarming. Not only are benefits leaders grappling with a dramatic increase in cancer-prevalence and high-cost claims, but they’re also seeing healthcare costs grow at the highest rate in a decade. To address this issue head-on, employers are increasingly turning to Centers of Excellence programs (COEs) for help. Learn how COEs are uniquely positioned to help employers address costs while also ensuring employees have equitable access to high-quality care for their complex health conditions.
Speaker:
Dana Baker, Senior Director, Mayo Clinic Complex Care Program
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As the cost of healthcare keeps rising stubbornly, benefits leaders need to be ever-more innovative in finding ways to keep spending under control while serving an increasingly diverse set of employee needs. How are benefits leaders using new tools and approaches toward evaluating their prospective and current providers? What kinds of surveys and feedback methods are they using to evaluate both employee needs and employee experience? What kinds of benefits are increasingly meaningful to workers, including financial wellness, and which ones have proven to be less impactful?
Panelists:
Cory Rose, SVP, People & Total Rewards, The Aspen Group
Sean Hughley, Director of Sales, Forma
Jon Harold, Head of Sales and Partnership Success, SoFi at Work
Moderator:
Patricia Garland, Adjunct Instructor, Labor Relations, Loyola University Chicago
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The last four years have witnessed record levels of resignation and historic labor shortages amid shifting expectations of what work should look like so that it works for employees. In 2025, many organizations will be continuing to be challenged by economic uncertainty and may not be able to hire their way out of their people problems. In this research-rich presentation, David Bator, managing director of Achievers Workforce Institute, will share the four must-have talent strategies that will help engage and retain employees in 2025.
David Bator, Managing Director, Achievers
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