For Your Benefits

Today’s employees have come to expect that they’ll be taken care of by their employers. That means solid benefits and positive opportunities to improve their health. We talk with Lauren Perry, SVP of NCBA about the importance of good health and wellbeing in the workplace and how virtual care can meet the needs of employees in an affordable, yet high-quality way.

Discover how to be the first line of defense against high employee healthcare costs with guest Emma Fox, Partner and COO of E Powered Benefits.

In this episode of For Your Benefits, Katharine Manning, President of Blackbird DC and author of The Empathetic Workplace, shares five ways trauma-informed leaders can ease employee anxiety. 

Offering a robust benefits package is a terrific way to increase employee retention, expand recruitment efforts, and show employees that they are valued. With the competition for talent remaining fierce in 2023, Scot and Kate Grooms discuss the top emerging benefit trends that can act as powerful differentiators for businesses that would like to maintain a competitive edge.

Many chronic conditions are often preventable and even manageable through simple lifestyle changes. Employers are in a unique position to help employees combat these conditions through benefits that focus on whole-person care.  In this episode, Sherree Telford will be discussing chronic conditions and how they are a growing concern for employers.

Employers want to offer their employees the best possible health benefits but don't want to overpay. How can benefits advisors help their clients make healthcare more affordable and accessible to employees while still being mindful of cost? In this episode, Chris Wolpert discusses why educating and engaging employees is important to combating rising health care costs.

As health care costs continue to rise, benefit advisors and employers face major challenges when it comes to providing high-quality, affordable employee health benefits. In this episode we discuss some of these challenges and offer cost-saving strategies.

The FTC recently launched an investigation into PBMs regarding their role in increasing prescription drug prices. In this episode, we talk with Catherine Hall, RN, Director of Prescription Drug Management for SentryHealth about the inquiry and how benefits advisors can protect their clients from bad PBM practices.

Hear Coley Williams, LMFT, Director of Mental Health at Wellview, discuss our current mental health crisis and what employers and others should be doing to support employees and their families.

In this episode of For Your Benefits, SentryHealth Vice President Ed Dillabough, and Al Lewis, CEO of Quizzify, discuss how benefits advisors and employers can help employees find the best medical specialists using comprehensive data and clinical expertise.

For many employees, self-care is often seen as a luxury reserved for days off of work. However, self-care needs to be a part of an ongoing effort for better physical, social, and emotional health. Leadership trainer Jason Lauritsen talks with us about why self-care in the workplace is vital to both employees, managers, and organizations as a whole.

Leaders are in a unique position to lead by example and to promote workplace health. In this episode, we talk with Laura Putnam, Founder and CEO of Motion Infusion, about how workplace health and wellbeing are important and the unique role that managers play in empowering employees to feel better.

A top priority for organizations is to attract and retain top employees. And with a highly competitive market, companies cannot afford high turnover. In this episode, we talk with Allison Holzer, Co-CEO and Chief Innovations Officer of InspireCorps about why business leaders need to have a coaching mindset in order to cultivate talent.

Company culture can affect many aspects of an organization, including satisfaction, recruitment, retention, and productivity. In this episode, Brad Shuck, EdD, a recognized thought-leader in employee engagement and leadership, shares his extensive research on the value of high employee engagement and how corporate leaders can (and should) build and sustain a strong company culture.