April 13
Thomas Wright
The Social Security & Medicare Power Hour. 7 Basics in 60-Minutes!
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April 20
Karin Hurt and David Dye 2024 show 2
Powerful Phrases for Dealing With Workplace Conflict
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April 27
Vicky Oliver
8 Ways to Attract Women Back to the Workplace
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May 4
Drew Jones
The Open Culture Handbook
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May 11
Liz Johnston
Responding to a DOL Investigation
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May 18
Ashley Goodall
The Problem with Change
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May 25
TBA
TBA
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Jun 1
Tony Martignetti
Campfire Lessons for Leaders
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Your broker helps you manage a budget of 25-40% of payroll. Even a small difference in capabilities and results can have a dramatic difference on costs.
So why do so many employers fail to properly select a broker? Typically, it’s because employers don’t evaluate brokers very often as it is hard to understand how brokers deliver different results and they don’t see a measurable difference in broker options clearly enough to warrant change.
In this episode, host CMA’s David Ciullo discusses with VP Stephanie Miller and VP Frank Verdi from Alliant Employee Benefits, how Selecting a Broker Can Be Fun and Rewarding. Learn the timing when to selecting a new broker, steps/criteria, and core questions you should be asking, and how to make the process benefit you.
About The Guest:
Frank Verdi Bio: In May 2023, Frank joined Alliant Insurance Services as Vice President within its Employee Benefits Group based in Boston, Massachusetts. Frank will focus on designing, implementing, and managing strategic employee benefits solutions for clients throughout the Northeast.
For more than 35 years, Frank has helped organizations across the Northeast drive growth through comprehensive, competitive, and cost-effective benefit programs. He has extensive experience on both the carrier and brokerage sides of the business and is highly regarded for his ability to develop and nurture strong, long-term relationships with his clients and partners.
“Frank has centered his career upon helping a range of businesses focus and optimize their benefits programs by designing, implementing, and managing employee-focused solutions that meet today’s business challenges,” said Kevin Overbey, President of Alliant Employee Benefits. “His strategic approach and deep knowledge of the benefits industry provides a strong competitive advantage to his clients.”
Prior to joining Alliant, Verdi was Area Vice President for a global insurance brokerage, risk management, and consulting firm in Boston. Prior to that, he spent 15+ years at the largest global brokerage firm in NY. To round out Frank’s experience, he spent the first 14 years of his career on the carrier side. This gave him firsthand knowledge of the inner workings of our carrier partners.
Frank is also a member of the LBGTQIA+ community and has been an advocate for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion throughout his career. He continues to be passionate about helping change the industry for the better and for future generations.
Frank earned his bachelor’s degree from Dowling College in Oakdale, New York, and holds health and life licenses in various states. Frank is also an active member of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) committee at Alliant.
Stephanie Miller Bio: Stephanie is a seasoned professional in the world of employee benefits, known for her expertise and dedication to helping organizations thrive. With a background that spans employee benefits, business development, HR technology, and client advocacy, Stephanie has made a significant impact throughout her career. She studied at Saint Joseph’s College and the University of Southern Maine.
Stephanie is the Vice President of the Employee Benefits Group at Alliant Insurance Services Based in Portland, she now focuses on designing, implementing, and managing tailored employee benefits solutions for a diverse portfolio of clients across the Northeast region. Her global perspective and her ability to create and maintain strong client relationships have quickly made her an asset to the Alliant team.
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Recent studies show that 31% of US healthcare costs can be directly attributed to “behaviorally influenced chronic conditions,” while 69% of costs are influenced by consumer behaviors.
These statistics hold true for your workforce. The employees who walk through your door each day are managing more than just the workload; they have families, lives outside of work, and health conditions.
Is there a way, however, that employers can commit to helping their employees understand their health conditions, embrace different treatment options and change their behaviors to positively influence chronic health conditions? The answer is yes; but it takes work.
The good news, however, is that hard work has significant returns on not just your employees’ health, but also their commitment to your organization. In this episode of HR Power Hour, join Tawny Alvarez of Verrill as she speaks to Curally’s Chief Financial Officer, Jeremy Vesta, concerning addressing the hidden costs of insurance.
In this episode Tawny and Jeremy will discuss the current issues employers are faced with concerning employees with chronic health conditions, the work that Curally has undertaken to provide employers with a path to respond to these challenges, and the positive long-term effects this strategy has on both employees and employers.
About The Guest:
Jeremy Vesta is Chief Financial Officer of Curally where he uses his expertise as an economist and his extensive business leadership background to empower companies to optimize their investment in their most valuable resource—their employees—through innovative strategies.
Additionally, Jeremy is the Managing Director of Vesta Holdings, a company with diverse interests in the fresh beef industry. Among its ventures, Vesta Holdings is involved in beef manufacturing through Harmony Beef, a company established and run by Jeremy and his family.
Before joining Vesta, he gained experience as a commodities trader at Bunge. One of Jeremy’s core beliefs is that to address the challenge of rising insurance costs, businesses must adopt new approaches that go beyond the surface-level factors like plan design, benefit providers, and coverage provided. Instead, the focus should be on identifying and resolving the underlying factors driving these costs. By doing so, business owners, benefit administrators, and HR leaders can effectively mitigate the impact of escalating insurance expenses.
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Every day we wake up determined to engage with life—to overcome work challenges, finish that novel, reach fitness goals, or repair a strained relationship. Despite our best intentions, we fall short. Why is it so hard to finish what we start.
Reaching goals after repeated frustration starts with understanding the impulse known as the Swipe, a side effect of our high-tech culture.
In this episode, host CMA’s David Ciullo discusses with bestselling author, internationally recognized organizational psychologist, educator, CEO and Co Author Dr. Tracy Maylett of the new book Swipe: The Science Behind Why We Don’t Finish What We Start.
Listen and learn as we discuss how this mechanism works and how to short-circuit the Swipe, reengage, and finally finish what we start.
About The Guest:
Tracy Maylett, Ed.D, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, is the Chief Executive Officer of DecisionWise ( www.decisionwise.com), a global consulting firm focused on employee experience design and evaluation. His background is in organization development, organization change, experience design and assessment, industrial psychology, executive coaching, HR, and psychometric assessment.
He has a Doctorate in Organization Change from Pepperdine University and an MBA from BYU. He teaches leadership, organizational behavior, employee experience, and talent management in the Marriott School of Business of Brigham Young University, as well as in the University Honors Department at BYU. Maylett has been a Visiting Professor in the International MBA program at Pforzheim University (Germany) from 2015-2023.
His 2017 release of the book, “The Employee Experience: How to Attract Talent, Retain Top Performers, and Drive Results,” released through Wiley Publishing, was an immediate best-seller, hitting the #1 business book spot in both Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Maylett’s most recent book, “Engagement MAGIC: Five Keys to Engaging People, Leaders, and Organizations” was released in January, 2019. His book, “Swipe: The Science Behind Why We Don’t Finish What We Start” is set for release in March of 2023.
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“Money…. Maybe…but it’s really the least important thing in my life” says Mark Jones who has experienced the loss of everything financially but stayed positive over 38 years and grew in life’s R.I.C.H.E.$.
In this episode, host CMA’s David Ciullo discusses, with Mark Jones, President of Saco Biddeford Savings Institution, An Optimistic Way to Live, Lead, and Succeed. Learn the importance of understanding what “your” value is and how to continuously work to expand and enhance it.
Learn how to have a drive to achieve, while at the same time, a drive and passion to care about people. Jones will bring it all together with Our Reason for Being, the new Mission and Vision of SBSI.
About The Guest:
Mark strives to live life fully engaged, treating each day and each relationship as the gifts that they are. His philosophy is one of doing all the good that he can in all the ways that he can for as long as he can by becoming wiser, stronger, and better each day as he learns, practices, and shares.
Mark’s career started at Saco & Biddeford Savings Institution 38 years ago with no title and a salary that supported the lack of a title. Over the years, Mark’s philosophy changed from the mindset that success is something that you pursue to a mindset that success is not that at all but rather something that you attract by becoming a more attractive person.
Once Mark embraced that, the titles on his business cards progressively changed from one to the next. Mark states he does carry that first business card with no title in his Wallet to remind him that he is still of no title other than the level of service that he provides to his family, friends, company and community members. Outside of banking, Mark competed for years at the pro-am level of the United States Cycling Federation, managed and played on a men’s travel softball team sponsored by Nike, Labatt Blue, Sunday River Ski Resort, etc, and played in large tournaments around the country.
With a body beat up from years of physical abuse on the race circuit and ball fields, He turned to hiking and kayaking and is now an avid landscape photographer hiking up mountainsides or paddling to distant islands in the dark of the night in all seasons to capture beautiful scenes of sunrises or the stars illuminating the otherwise dark skies. With the help of some of the best landscape and wildlife photographers in New England, he helped create a non-profit called Shutterbugs 4 Charity, where they create beautiful large framed canvas prints for home and office along with cards and calendars with all proceeds above production costs going to charitable organizations.
This year they approach $500,000 raised for charity since the inception of Shutterbugs.
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