Podcasts about Alight Solutions

Despite strides toward gender equity, women in the workplace continue to encounter systemic challenges that hinder their career progression. While representation in executive roles has improved over the past decade — rising from 17% to 29% of C-suite positions, according to McKinsey — women, particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds, remain significantly outnumbered.   In this episode of The Business of Learning, we spoke with Neha Trivedi, CPTM, HR director, learning and development and talent development at Alight Solutions, to learn more about how L&D can help support women's career growth.  Tune in now to hear the conversation, where we discuss:   Real-world examples of programs that have had an impact on women's career growth.   The importance of coaching, mentoring and sponsorship opportunities.   Partnering with HR and other business units to create comprehensive development strategies, ensure equitable access to leadership opportunities and embed inclusive practices across the organization. 

In this episode of Tech Sales Insights, Randy Seidl is joined by Kevin Guthrie, EVP of Sales at Alight Solutions. They discuss the importance of values-based leadership, sharing experiences from Kevin's illustrious career spanning companies like Oracle, Hyperion Solutions, and Tableau. Kevin highlights his leadership philosophy, the significance of fostering competitive camaraderie within teams, and the value of maintaining strong relationships. The episode also touches on the impact of mentors and peers in shaping Kevin's approach to leadership and sales success.KEY TAKEAWAYSValues-Based Leadership: Emphasizes the importance of clear values in leadership, fostering environments where employees align with company values.Customer Success: Prioritizing customer success creates loyal advocates and drives long-term business success.Mentorship and Development: Effective leadership involves mentoring, providing clear feedback, and fostering professional and personal growth.Relationship Building: Strong relationships and networking are critical in professional growth and business development.Adaptation and Resilience: Embracing challenges and learning from both peaks and valleys in one's career are crucial for growth and success.QUOTES"Be the leader that you want to have.""Happiness fuels your success.""Individual success must never come at the expense of the team success.""Nervous can't exist in service.""We exist to help people be healthy and financially secure.""Treat people how you want to be treated; practice the golden rule.""By virtue of my success at work, when I build a new relationship, when I work in the right, I live in the right house or have the right job or drive the right car, I'm going to be happy, but instead, happiness fuels your success."Find out more about Kevin C. Guthrie through the link/s below:https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevincguthrie/This episode is sponsored by The Alexander Group, our GTM & Sales Compensation Partner. Alexander Group provides revenue growth consulting services to the world's leading sales organizations. When clients need to grow revenue, they look to Alexander Group for data-driven insights, actionable recommendations, and results.

On this episode, Pete and Julie welcome Frank Leistner, SVP Global Payroll & Professional Services at Strada Global. After a behind-the-scenes update on the newly branded Strada Global and its recent divestiture from Alight Solutions to HIG Capital, the group picks up where the Payroll Congress Executive Summit left off! They continue the conversation on the changing role and expectations of modern payroll operations, the “payroll paradigm shift” C-suites are slowly realizing, and discuss findings from the 2024 Payroll Profession Confidence Index and what it may mean for the future of payroll. Connect with Frank: www.linkedin.com/in/frank-leistner-a035416/ Strada Global: www.stradaglobal.com Julie's blog on the Alight Payroll and Pro Services (Now Strada Global) Divest to HIG Capital: bit.ly/3QlsUdZ PULSE SURVEY ALERT for compensation strategy: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/hp-CompStrategy Connect with the show: LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/company/hr-payroll-2-0 Twitter: @HRPayroll2_0 @PeteTiliakos @JulieFer_HR

On this episode, Pete and Julie welcome Frank Leistner, SVP Global Payroll & Professional Services at Strada Global. After a behind-the-scenes update on the newly branded Strada Global and its recent divestiture from Alight Solutions to HIG Capital, the group picks up where the Payroll Congress Executive Summit left off! They continue the conversation on the changing role and expectations of modern payroll operations, the “payroll paradigm shift” C-suites are slowly realizing, and discuss findings from the 2024 Payroll Profession Confidence Index and what it may mean for the future of payroll. Connect with Frank: www.linkedin.com/in/frank-leistner-a035416/  Strada Global: www.stradaglobal.com Julie's blog on the Alight Payroll and Pro Services (Now Strada Global) Divest to HIG Capital: bit.ly/3QlsUdZ PULSE SURVEY ALERT for compensation strategy: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/hp-CompStrategy Connect with the show:   LinkedIn:  http://linkedin.com/company/hr-payroll-2-0  Twitter: @HRPayroll2_0 @PeteTiliakos @JulieFer_HR

On this special marketplace news update, Pete and Julie take a break to opine on a long list of HR and payroll technology marketplace news and updates shaping recent headlines! They dive into analyst events and innovation updates, product announcements, acquisitions, divestitures, and other newsworthy events, sharing their POVs and insights on the impact and potential for each, including key updates from Workday, ADP, UKG, Alight Solutions, Deel, Cornerstone, and more! Julie's blog on the Alight Payroll and Pro Services Divest to HIG Capital: bit.ly/3QlsUdZ Pulse Survey ALERT: Intelligent Automation in HR https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HERRONPALMER-AI Connect with the show:   LinkedIn:  http://linkedin.com/company/hr-payroll-2-0  Twitter: @HRPayroll2_0 @PeteTiliakos @JulieFer_HR

Hear about creative solutions designed by two winners of the 2023 DMEC Emerging Leader Award, how they define leadership, and the mutually beneficial effects of recognizing (and rewarding) this important work! Get insights from Ashleigh Brock, JD, lead compliance coordinator for the city of Memphis, and Keemia Vaghef, PhD, director of analytics consulting, leave solutions at Alight Solutions, in this extended podcast episode!From designing streamlined processes to improve efficiencies to dispelling benchmarking myths for greater success, these award winners set a high bar! Listen in for inspiration! And nominate superstars in your organization before May 30 for this leadership award!Read more about the 2023 award winners in the @Work magazine article Celebrating Leadership in Absence and Disability Management Circles.Learn about the Emerging Leader Award criteria and complete the nomination form to highlight emerging leaders in your organization!: https://dmec.org/about-dmec/leadership-award/

Research from Gartner found that 91% of sales leaders reported that finding relevant content and tools for reps is a struggle without a dedicated enablement platform. So how can you simplify the rep experience with a unified platform? Shawnna Sumaoang: Hi, and welcome to the Win Win Podcast. I’m your host, Shawnna Sumaoang. Join us as we dive into changing trends in the workplace and how to navigate them successfully.Here to discuss this topic is Carolyn Hoang, the senior director of sales enablement and effectiveness at Alight Solutions. Thank you for joining us, Carolyn. I would love for you to tell us more about yourself, your background, and your role.Carolyn Hoang: I’ve been at Alight for a little over a year and I was brought on to help develop and grow our sales enablement function at the org. My role today has evolved a little bit and right now I’m focused on supporting and developing product education and enablement and ensuring we have a robust and effective product training and enablement process as we anticipate upcoming product launches and releases. As for my background, I’ve been in healthcare, health insurance, and the PBM space for 20 years. I initially wanted to become a pharmacist like my sister but found my niche and enjoyment on the corporate side of the business around operations and product strategies. So I’ve always said my life purpose has been helping others. So any way that I can make that impact in any role I’m always fulfilling my purpose and that’s where it landed me here in sales enablement at Alight. SS: We’re really excited to have you with us today, Carolyn. Now, you did mention that one of your specialties is improving efficiency in business operations and processes. How do you help drive efficiency for the business as an enablement leader? CH: There are so many ways that we can help drive efficiency in any business, but you have to start by understanding how the business operates. So the way that I look at any organization as I come into it is understanding how are they at maturity level in a current state. For example, process analysis and optimization, always conducting a thorough analysis of existing business processes. How do we identify bottlenecks and any inefficiencies, and what are those areas for improvement? Another area would be working closely with all of the cross-functional teams, ensuring that we can streamline or redesign business processes and eliminate any unnecessary steps. Or automate any repetitive tasks that we can. That means establishing those standardized procedures or best practices across the organization.SS: Now curating the right tech stack can have a huge impact on efficiency. And prior to Highspot, you had several tools, including a different readiness platform. What were some of the challenges that this led to? CH: Yeah, assessing the right tools and technology integration or tech stack is so important for any business. And I can’t stress that enough. Some of the challenges I’ve seen most frequently is just those fragmented workflows, utilizing just multiple tools that a rep or a seller needs to switch between different platforms or accessing information or content that needs to at the right needs at the right place. A place that’s been challenging data silos. So every tool has its own data repository, but when they’re not speaking to one another or the systems are not integrated, that poses also a huge challenge. And then, yeah, that lack of integration between platforms that is used by multiple different client facing teams. Having that all centralized in one place eliminates that. And that’s something that I found at our organization, was that the level of integration and content management needed to be consolidated and ensure that our reps – all of our customer-facing reps – have the right content and consistent content, at the right time.SS: What was the impetus though, for making the switch to a unified enablement platform and ultimately to implement Highspot? CH: Yeah, in my early assessment here, I immediately saw a need just for greater integrated workflows and business processes that would ultimately centralize and create that seamless integration data across all of our customer-facing teams and all of the various enablement tools and tech stacks.So many factors went into ultimately making the switch to Highspot as our go-to platform. But it’s more about the technology that can support our organization and our organization’s, ever-evolving needs and help us enable our sellers most effectively and efficiently.SS: Fantastic. And in your opinion, what is the strategic value of consolidating your enablement tech stack into a unified platform rather than separate disconnected tools? CH: I would say improving efficiency and productivity across multiple business teams. So that’s, again, data integration insights are just so important, as it helps us inform and better enable our reps through those data-driven insights and decisions that we can help continuously improve our content, our training, our platform, and also the enhanced user experience. So, having that unified platform really provides a seamless and intuitive experience on the front end, and the back end as the user, as the administrator, and really improve our user adoption and satisfaction. So having a consistent interface and navigation across all of our enablement functions and teams, our reps can easily find the right tools, resources, and things that can lead to increased engagement and effectiveness. SS: I love that, how you guys are thinking about both an integrated data and experience perspective, that’s fantastic. How did you go about building the business case with your stakeholders for making this change? And I think a lot of our audience would love to hear some best practices for gaining stakeholder buy-in.  CH: Engaging your various stakeholders as early as possible in the scoping process when building your business case is key. So keeping them continuously informed and engaged throughout the process. I always say partnership and collaboration; that’s key when you take time to understand the various stakeholders. How do you identify those businesses and teams that you will work with on a day-in and day-out process? How each of those teams operate, what are their pain points, and how can we help solve those business challenges together? Aligning different use cases and identifying what those use cases are. That resonates with each of our stakeholders and ensuring that they’re aligned on what our enablement vision goals and business outcomes that we can achieve really help solidify the buy-in and understand the “what’s in it for them” and “what’s in it for us together”.SS: That’s a fantastic approach, always put it in the perspective of your audience, even internal ones like stakeholders. Now, you recently launched Highspot actually at your company’s sales kickoff. Can you tell us about that launch and how you leverage that key moment to help build up momentum for this change?CH: Launching Highspot at sales kickoff was just such a perfect opportunity for us to generate buzz, and excitement really leverage different gamification opportunities to drive that early adoption and early engagement with the platform. So before we developed or kicked off at our event we built what we call the sales kickoff spot in Highspot, so that’s where reps can access all the information they need to go to before they attend the event, like the agenda, travel details, any pre-work or training that we want them to prepare or review before the sessions. We also included this fun Easter egg in our SKO page where we use gamification like that launch experience to incentivize our sellers to complete any pre-recorded raining and get folks driving excitement and buzz around, what is Highspot? What can it do? And to go to our Highspot booth that we had in our partner expo so what we did is we had the first three folks who finished training, found the Easter egg phrase, and went to the Highspot booth and mentioned it, then they all won a prize. After SKO, we communicated with the winners and recognized their efforts to encourage others to participate in it, but also really sprinkle that pride. Fun and strategic learning right throughout the platform. And that helps folks from a user experience perspective to learn the platform, play around with it understand the processes, and again, help drive continuous engagement and options post-launch. SS: I love that, that sounds like it landed well with your teams. Now I know you guys are also using Highspot to help optimize your onboarding program. I know that’s a key initiative for you all this year. How do you plan to optimize your onboarding program and how will leveraging Highspot help you to do CH: New hire onboarding is so crucial to get right at any organization. So ensuring our reps are fully enabled with the right product knowledge and know how to position and recognize the value of messaging that resonates with the various buyers and prospects they’re talking to is key. At Alight, we made a huge effort to prioritize and build a strong and effective onboarding program this year. And that’s something that we continue to focus on building out and continuously iterating throughout the year as well. SS: Amazing. Now, I know that you guys are just getting started with Highspot, but what are some of the key ways that you’re measuring the impact of your enablement programs on business results?CH: On the example of, the onboarding program and where we’ve been focusing on improving our onboarding program is really taking that in it and seeing how we can improve our time to productivity in our first sale for our reps. Understanding how do we increase the time it takes for a new hire to onboard, learn about all of our various products and solutions we offer and really be comfortable and confident in saying, Speaking, having that first effective conversation with their prospect or buyer and ultimately be able to execute the first deal.  So that’s something that we’ve been focusing on, in addition, to pipeline generation ensuring that we’re able to help our sellers generate more pipeline, lead conversions, and increase in win rate. SS: Amazing. And all the top-line things the business cares about. Now, looking into the future of Alight, what are some of the key goals you have for enablement in the next year and beyond? And how do you plan to leverage Highspot to help achieve these? CH: Some key goals this year are centered around driving sales effectiveness. I would say, enhancing our customer engagement and accelerating our business growth. So we plan on leveraging Highspot A1 by optimizing just our sales content, and our content strategy. To continue consolidating where our customer-facing teams are accessing the right content at the right time, making sure it’s relevant and effective at any stage of the buyer’s journey, right? Enabling them to engage their customers and really drive better outcomes. Also enhancing our sales-readiness. As we continue to invest in our sales readiness initiatives, we want to make sure that our sales teams are well-equipped with the knowledge, skills, and resources they need to succeed. So Highspot and the platform play a crucial role in delivering personalized training, coaching, and some of those on-demand resources we’re building out to support ongoing learning and development. I would say another area is just really driving that alignment across teams, again, breaking down those silos, ensuring that our teams that support enablement, like sales, marketing, product, and other key functions, really provide a seamless customer experience. So, we’re planning to deploy some key integrations coming up between Highspot and our CRM system and some of our marketing automation tools. That will help us streamline that experience and those workflows to enable our reps to be more effective in driving revenue growth. I would say lastly, it’s like scaling our enablement initiative. So as our organization grows, we continue to scale our enablement programs and how we enable to support the needs of our expanding Salesforce and sales teams. Highspot’s scalability and flexibility allow us and help us enable and deploy the programs that we need at scale and ensure consistent delivery of the resources that we support across our organization as well. SS: Wonderful. Carolyn, thank you so much for joining us today. I really appreciate it.CH: Thanks so much for having me. SS: To our audience. Thank you for listening to this episode of the win podcast. Be sure to tune in next time for more insights on how you can maximize enablement success with Highspot.

Description:In this episode of IGNITE YOUR LEADERSHIP I am honored and excited to have our delightful and very wise guest, Darcy Eikenberg, Author of RedCape Rescue: Save your career without leaving your job joining us. Darcy is a Private Coach to Leaders & High Performing Teams. She is also an in-demand Keynote Speaker and Workshop Facilitator Darcy is on a mission to help us change our lives at work without having to change everything in our lives.Bio: Darcy Eikenberg is on a mission to help us change our lives at work without having to change everything in our lives, especially during times of great change (and face it—when AREN'T we managing change?) She's the author of Red Cape Rescue: Save Your Career Without Leaving Your Job which shows how to get more of what you want without resorting to drastic measures of changing careers or finding a new job—and without sacrificing your health or family life.Her strategies help generate more clarity, confidence, and control—plus, they inspire a bit of courage to help handle our complex lives at work. She's coached leaders at companies such as Aon, The Coca-Cola Company, State Farm, and Deloitte, and offers encouraging ways to change work for the better, for good.Before launching leadership career coaching firm RedCapeRevolution.com, Darcy was a principal at human resources consulting firm Hewitt Associates (now part of Alight Solutions), where she served on both the Southeast and the North American Communication Consulting Leadership teams. She's been quoted in Forbes, Thrive Global, Mashable, The Ladders, CNN and more. Connect directly through her free Insider Community at RedCapeInsider.com and get the latest stories, career strategies, and free tools.Links:Company Site: redcaperevolution.lpages.co/book-chapter/ Company Site: redcaperevolution.lpages.co/help-for-someone-at-work/LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/darcyeikenberg 

On this special marketplace news update, Pete and Julie take a break to opine on a long list of recent HR and payroll technology marketplace news and updates shaping headlines. They dive into recent product announcements and acquisitions, sharing their POVs and insights on the impact and potential for each, including key updates from Workday, ADP, Alight Solutions, Deel, and FirstAdvantage.  Connect with the show:  LinkedIn:  http://linkedin.com/company/hr-payroll-2-0  Twitter: @HRPayroll2_0 @PeteTiliakos @JulieFer_HR Have you taken the Payroll Profession Confidence Survey? Join in and be sure to make your voice heard: https://zohsy.com/oFaW

How can you engage people at their point of need to help them make smarter decisions around their health, wealth and wellbeing? Listen to our interview with Lenny Fayard, VP of Product Management and Strategy as he reveals how Alight Worklife meets people in the moment - helping employers drive positive outcomes.

L'utilizzo dell'Intelligenza artificiale (AI) nell'HR è ancora un campo inesplorato, le cui prospettive a applicazioni pratiche sono ancora da sperimentare. Finora, questa tecnologia ha dimostrato, senz'altro, di essere un elemento importante per l'arricchimento dell'Employee Experience in azienda, posizionandosi come elemento terzo tra aziende e lavoratori, e nei rapporti tra colleghi.Silvia Leati, Country Lead Italia di Alight Solutions, società specializzata nei processi di digitalizzazione dell'HR, ci spiega le nuove frontiere dell'AI applicata alle Risorse Umane durante questo episodio di Pensiero Personale.

With the open enrollment season right around the corner, the focus is shifting from merely offering benefits to optimizing the value employees derive from them. This podcast explores how organizations are working towards the important task of strategically aligning benefits with their workforce's diverse needs and preferences. Join our open enrollment experts Laine Thomas Conway and Karen Frost for their insights.

Kimberly Williams, Clinical Director of Behavioral Health Services,  discusses mental health and how it impacts wellbeing at work and at home.

Xan Daniels, Global Vice President, Inclusion and Diversity, discusses the employee point of view on wellbeing and why diversity, equity and inclusion are so important.

Alison Borland and Josh Welch discuss opportunities to improve the wellbeing of employees and their families as well as its impact on business outcomes.

Katie Rooney, Chief Financial Officer for Alight Solutions, discusses providing an one stop shop for health, wealth, and wellness decisions for clients.Hosts: Carol Massar and Madison Mills. Producer: Paul Brennan.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Katie Rooney, Chief Financial Officer for Alight Solutions, discusses providing an one stop shop for health, wealth, and wellness decisions for clients.Hosts: Carol Massar and Madison Mills. Producer: Paul Brennan.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Private equity is buying highly profitable practices using an aggregator model to improve efficiency and management.  This is done to the detriment of younger physicians who are not equity partners at the time of the sale. They will also not be building a legacy or doing the best care as PE's focus is on return on investment and capital allocation. Hosp. Finance Consultant – U. Kansas, Cleveland Clinic, YaleMD - University of Illinois College of MedicineInternal Medicine Residency – Johns Hopkins School of MedicineHospital Physician – Baylor Plano, TXCo-Founder, Chief Medical Officer – Compass Professional Health Services… Healthcare Navigation company that grew to 2,000 employer clients and 1.8 million members.Acquired by Alight Solutions – 10,000 employee benefits administration co.Started AHealthcareZ Dec ‘18 – 300+ Healthcare Finance Training Videos, 120K Views/MoMedical Director SimplePay Health Jun ‘22 – Alternative Health PlanSupport the showPlease subscribe to our podcast on apple or amazon and give us a great review. You can make suggestions for guests and topics on our website below. Thanks for listening. Follow us on social media YouTube, Instagram, WebPage The Pediatric Lounge - A Podcast taking you behind the door of the Physician's Lounge to get a deeper insight into what docs are talking about today, from the clinically profound to the wonderfully routine...and everything in between. The conversations are not intended as medical advice and the opinions expressed are solely those of the host and guest.

This episode of Winning IR explores what it means to implement a total stakeholder approach. Jeremy Cohen, Vice President Investor Relations at Alight Solutions (SVP IR and Financial Communications at Edelman Smithfield at time of recording), joins Mark Fasken to share his perspective on how a successful IRO must act as a hub to connect stakeholders to strategy. Listen to the episode or read the transcript to learn more about:What is a “Total Stakeholder Approach”, and why is it important?Why does IR need to have a seat at the table for strategic discussions and strategic planning?What's the difference in expertise of an in-house IRO compared to an IR consultant? What can IROs do to become the internal expert on everything and build strong internal relationships within the company?How can IROs get buy-in from internal stakeholders to support the IR strategy?What kind of data is most useful when getting buy-in from key stakeholders?How can IRO's optimize their time with retail investors and communication on social media channels?How can you validate that your IR communications strategy is effective? About our Guest:Jeremy is Vice President of Investor Relations at Alight Solutions (SVP of Investor Relations at Edelman at the time of recording), and has worked closely with clients across numerous sectors, including financial services, industrials, consumer, healthcare and technology. Jeremy's background includes special situations, M&A, ESG communications, crisis, public relations and investor relations, building the IR program at Gogo, and working as an equity analyst with Morningstar.Connect with Jeremy on LinkedIn here.Winning IR is brought to you by Irwin. For more winning ideas, subscribe to Winning IR wherever you get your podcasts.For more information, visit getirwin.com/winning-ir

Private equity is buying highly profitable practices using an aggregator model to improve efficiency and management.  This is done to the detriment of younger physicians who are not equity partners at the time of the sale. They will also not be building a legacy or doing the best care as PE's focus is on return on investment and capital allocation. Hosp. Finance Consultant – U. Kansas, Cleveland Clinic, YaleMD - University of Illinois College of MedicineInternal Medicine Residency – Johns Hopkins School of MedicineHospital Physician – Baylor Plano, TXCo-Founder, Chief Medical Officer – Compass Professional Health Services… Healthcare Navigation company that grew to 2,000 employer clients and 1.8 million members.Acquired by Alight Solutions – 10,000 employee benefits administration co.Started AHealthcareZ Dec ‘18 – 300+ Healthcare Finance Training Videos, 120K Views/MoMedical Director SimplePay Health Jun ‘22 – Alternative Health PlanPlease subscribe to our podcast on apple or amazon and give us a great review. You can make suggestions for guests and topics on our website below. Thanks for listening. Follow us on social media YouTube, Instagram, WebPage The Pediatric Lounge - A Podcast taking you behind the door of the Physician's Lounge to get a deeper insight into what docs are talking about today, from the clinically profound to the wonderfully routine...and everything in between. The conversations are not intended as medical advice and the opinions expressed are solely those of the host and guest.

Private equity is buying highly profitable practices using an aggregator model to improve efficiency and management.  This is done to the detriment of younger physicians who are not equity partners at the time of the sale. They will also not be building a legacy or doing the best care as PE's focus is on return on investment and capital allocation. Hosp. Finance Consultant – U. Kansas, Cleveland Clinic, YaleMD - University of Illinois College of MedicineInternal Medicine Residency – Johns Hopkins School of MedicineHospital Physician – Baylor Plano, TXCo-Founder, Chief Medical Officer – Compass Professional Health Services… Healthcare Navigation company that grew to 2,000 employer clients and 1.8 million members.Acquired by Alight Solutions – 10,000 employee benefits administration co.Started AHealthcareZ Dec ‘18 – 300+ Healthcare Finance Training Videos, 120K Views/MoMedical Director SimplePay Health Jun ‘22 – Alternative Health PlanPlease subscribe to our podcast on apple or amazon and give us a great review. You can make suggestions for guests and topics on our website below. Thanks for listening. Follow us on social media YouTube, Instagram, WebPage The Pediatric Lounge - A Podcast taking you behind the door of the Physician's Lounge to get a deeper insight into what docs are talking about today, from the clinically profound to the wonderfully routine...and everything in between. The conversations are not intended as medical advice and the opinions expressed are solely those of the host and guest.

Dr. Eric Bricker is an internal medicine physician who graduated with Honors from the University of Illinois College of Medicine and completed his residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. Dr. Bricker is the former Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Compass Professional Health Services. Compass is a Healthcare Navigation service that grew to 1.8 million members across 2,000+ clients including T-Mobile, Southwest Airlines, and Chili's/Maggiano's Restaurants. Compass was acquired by Alight Solutions in July 2018. Alight is a 10,000-person employee benefit and HR outsourcing company that separated from Aon in 2017.Dr. Bricker is also the founder of Texas Family Insurance - an independent insurance agent who sells Oscar Health | Disclaimer: AHealthcareZ.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com Thank you for your support!Please subscribe to our podcast on apple or amazon and give us a great review. You can make suggestions for guests and topics on our website below. Thanks for listening. Follow us on social media YouTube, Instagram, WebPage The Pediatric Lounge - A Podcast taking you behind the door of the Physician's Lounge to get a deeper insight into what docs are talking about today, from the clinically profound to the wonderfully routine...and everything in between. The conversations are not intended as medical advice and the opinions expressed are solely those of the host and guest.

Do you have old retirement plans or 401ks that you've lost track of, but you're not sure where you can find and gain access to those accounts? On this week's episode, I'm going to cover four ways you can locate those old retirement plans and discuss how to put them to their best use. You will want to hear this episode if you are interested in... The three places your old retirement account money could be [1:49] Using your social security number [3:35] Searching unclaimed property databases [5:51] An exciting solution from the industry's leading retirement plan providers [6:57] What to do with your money when you find it [8:32] Where is your money? It's been estimated that there are billions of dollars sitting in old retirement plans that people have forgotten about. If you have an old 401k or retirement plan that you've lost track of, there are three places where that money could be right now. If your employer is still in business, it's easy to track them down and find out where your old 401k has gone. However, the size of the balance left in your retirement account will most likely determine where the money is. If you have less than a $1,000 balance, your 401k provider can cash in that account and send a check to you. If this is the case, you want to follow up because the original check is likely invalid, and there could be tax consequences for not rolling the money over within 60 days of the original check being issued. If you had a balance between $1000 and $5,000, the old retirement plan provider can't send you a check, but they can move that account to another IRA. Finally, having a balance over $5000 is the easiest option because chances are it's still with the employer-sponsored retirement plan. It's simply a case of you gaining access to that account. Finding old retirement accounts What do you do if you don't know who your old 401k provider is anymore? Maybe it's been a few years. Maybe your former company has merged a few times, or they went out of business altogether. It still might be a good idea to contact your old 401k provider to see if they still have an account open for you. If you're unable to locate your 401k through your administrator, your next step is to try and look it up with your social security number through various unclaimed retirement benefit registries. And if all else fails, there are several multi-state unclaimed property databases that could be helpful. Hopefully, one of the three options above yields results, but it can be a lot of work. Recently, a trio of the industry's largest 401k administrators (Fidelity Investments, Vanguard, and Alight Solutions) have teamed up to try to alleviate some of the stress and tax problems that go along with old 401k balances. They've put together a clearing house of sorts where anytime you leave a job with an old 401k balance, after a certain period of time these companies will talk to each other and automatically try to transfer that money over to a new qualified window quickly. If it's less than $1,000, but they don't know where to send it, or it comes back because it was in cash, they would take care of that. And if you have another retirement account with them, they'll try to automatically move that money over to that plan for you. Resources Mentioned 'Billions of dollars get left behind': The 401(k) industry now has a 'lost and found' for your old retirement accounts National Registry of Unclaimed Retirement Benefits Contacting PBGC About Unclaimed Pensions FreeERISA MissingMoney.com Find your old 401ks 4 Things To Know Before Doing A 401k Rollover, #40 Connect With Morrissey Wealth Management  www.MorrisseyWealthManagement.com/contact

This episode was one of the most popular episodes in the past 12 months. Since it aired, there was a show with Kevin Schulman, MD (EP366), that added some context, which I would recommend, and also one with David Muhlestein, PhD, JD (EP364). Those two shows and this one are a good three-pack. And hey, here's something new that we're going to try out. Coming up in December, Dr. Bricker and I will host a smallish virtual chat to discuss the topics covered in this episode. It will be a conversation, not a presentation, so therefore the “why” behind the “smallish.” If you are kinda thinking this is something that you'd like to do, go to our Web site and scroll down to the “Join the Relentless Tribe.” When we get our act together, we'll send out the details for how to sign up in a future email. I'm thinking it will be very cool to get a chance for the great people who support our show enough to actually get a weekly email to talk amongst ourselves! In this healthcare podcast, I'm speaking with Eric Bricker, MD, about how so many entities in healthcare are getting up in other people's business and swimming in other people's traditional lanes. We kick off the conversation talking about the payer, PBM, and hospital system horizontal consolidation that has transpired over the past decades (that's plural). Horizontal consolidation is pretty much the easiest way to decimate all competition in your own swim lane so that you can charge more and not worry so much about patient/customer/member experience because the patients/customers/members have no better alternative. They effectively have nowhere, or few other places at best, to go if they leave you. So, what's the impact of horizontal consolidation? Commercial insurance costs have gone up 4x the rate of other benchmark goods and services. Let's spend a moment, shall we, on the human impact of all this extreme consolidation. The impact is your sister, your neighbor, your son, your friend. So many feel so much pressure financially in our country today because of healthcare costs. Even families earning significantly more than median household income are forgoing care because of costs. This was in a recent paper. (The authors are Alyce S. Adams, Raymond Kluender, Neale Mahoney, Jinglin Wang, Francis Wong, and Wesley Yin.) But the direct observable financial toxicity resulting from high healthcare patient costs is really only the tip of the iceberg here. As Dave Chase from Health Rosetta has said a million times already, high healthcare costs have a multitude of effects on employers, big and small. One big one is, if healthcare costs more, then there's less money for salaries. Dave, citing lots of evidence, has long attributed wage stagnation in this country to accelerating healthcare costs, which became even more rampant during periods of industry consolidation. Dave Chase leads Health Rosetta, by the way. Here's another human toxicity: Listen to episode 337 with Oliva Webb on the impact on her life as a result of the undeniably and unquestionably common non-excellent treatment by the PBMs and SPPs that she has to deal with. Because, as Dr. Bricker also says, no competition means basically not a whole lot of concern about patient experience. Why should a for-profit business spend money to improve something when there's nothing really to be gained for them financially to do so? I mean, the best a patient can do most of the time is hop from the frying pan into the fire. That's what happens when there's no competition or no real competition. Also consider the burned-out clinicians who have to get stuck in the middle of this nobody-really-cares-at-the-monopoly customer service paperwork quagmire. By the way, here's a sidebar that might come as a surprise to some people, but please take this in the spirit with which it's intended. All of us innovators and lifelong learners, we want to update our beliefs when the facts show us an updated conclusion. So, I have learned that all of this consolidation was going on long before the ACA (Affordable Care Act). My point here is to please look into this well-documented trend line before reflexively tweeting that the ACA drove consolidation. Dr. Bricker and others like Dr. Mai Pham have told me that, in their opinion, low interest rates, cheap debt, and a desire to eliminate competition are wildly powerful drivers of consolidation. Anyway, about eight minutes into the interview with Dr. Bricker, if you're one of the ones who knows all you care to know about horizontal consolidation, we get into vertical integration, vertical consolidation—and this is where things get interesting. And when I say interesting, I mean it in a “we live in interesting times” kind of way. The vertical consolidation conversation segues into whose swim lane that the digital health and other innovators or, dare I say, disrupters are diving into and whose lunch they are aiming to eat. Dr. Bricker probably needs no introduction. He is the force behind AHealthcareZ, which you can find online, on Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn. He has worked as a clinician, in healthcare finance. If that weren't enough, he's also been an entrepreneur—a very successful entrepreneur, I might add. He started one of the first healthcare navigation firms. You can connect with Dr. Bricker on Twitter at @DrEricB and on LinkedIn.   Eric Bricker, MD, is an internal medicine physician and former cofounder and chief medical officer of Compass Professional Health Services. Compass is a healthcare navigation service that grew to 2000+ clients, including T-Mobile, Southwest Airlines, and Chili's/Maggiano's restaurants. Compass was acquired by Alight Solutions in July 2018. Alight is a 10,000-person employee benefits and HR outsourcing company that separated from Aon in 2017. Dr. Bricker has since started AHealthcareZ.com, with 300+ healthcare finance videos with approximately 120,000 views per month across all platforms. In 2022, he became medical director of SimplePay Health, an alternative health plan that empowers employees with high-quality care, concierge support, and easily understood payment. He is also the author of Healthcare Money Campfire Stories.   05:50 What is this “megatrend” happening in healthcare right now? 07:11 How has consolidation changed the healthcare landscape? 09:41 What is vertical integration within healthcare? 11:07 Why doesn't inorganic growth benefit patients? 12:52 “What is best for the patient does not necessarily make the most money.” 14:02 “It's not that it's above the law … it is just intentionally obscured.” 18:16 “Healthcare is glacial. It is slow.” 22:36 “The largest source of healthcare costs is hospitals.” 25:00 EP330 with John Marchica. 28:20 “What have the historical priorities been of the administrators of those hospitals?” 28:35 “Every hospital CFO knows that they need sick people.” 29:21 EP343 with David Carmouche, MD. 30:01 “The payment change has to come first.” 31:19 “The money wins.” 33:16 “You've got to put the financial incentives in place … to make people actually behave the way that they should.”   You can connect with Dr. Bricker on Twitter at @DrEricB and on LinkedIn.   @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth What is this “megatrend” happening in healthcare right now? @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth How has consolidation changed the healthcare landscape? @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth What is vertical integration within healthcare? @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth Why doesn't inorganic growth benefit patients? @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth “What is best for the patient does not necessarily make the most money.” @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth “It's not that it's above the law … it is just intentionally obscured.” @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth “Healthcare is glacial. It is slow.” @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth “The largest source of healthcare costs is hospitals.” @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth “What have the historical priorities been of the administrators of those hospitals?” @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth “Every hospital CFO knows that they need sick people.” @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth “The payment change has to come first.” @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth “The money wins.” @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth “You've got to put the financial incentives in place … to make people actually behave the way that they should.” @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth   Recent past interviews: Click a guest's name for their latest RHV episode! 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It was my distinct pleasure to have Pete Tiliakos, global payroll product strategy leader for Alight Solutions, as my guest for this episode of the #HRTechChat video podcast. Pete's latest role is just the proverbial tip of the iceberg when it comes to his experience, expertise and, really, authority in the domain of payroll. Most recently, Pete was an analyst at two different firms. Before that, he was payroll solution architect at IBM and senior consultant, human capital management, at Deloitte Consulting, in that order. Back in the early aughts, notably, he was payroll leader for shared services at Disney Worldwide. Put differently, to say Pete is an expert in payroll is an understatement. Returning to the present, "It's an exciting time to be in the industry," said Pete, who's also a member of our Global Executive Advisory Council. "It feels like all that experience has really caught a wave." During our chat, we shared takeaways in the wake of this year's triumphant return of the HR Technology Conference & Expo. Triumphant does seem like an appropriate word. Regarding the conference, "To me that was the biggest, boldest, most vibrant, most alive event I've seen in a long time," Pete said. "There's a lot of talk about a recession and a slowdown and things, but what we're seeing is that talent is still very important. And then, of course, we saw payroll well represented." The possibilities around payroll are greater and more progressive today than we even would have fathomed 10 years ago. The train has left the station, so to speak, and our concept of what payroll can and does mean has expanded. "I just think it's great to see all the investment and focus on payroll," Pete said. "COVID really provided that spotlight, where payroll became infinitely more important compared to how it had been treated in the past." It's almost as if business leaders are finally seeing the processing of payroll for what it is: not a mere cost to contain, but an investment, just as their people's pay itself is an investment, too. Pete and I delved deeply into all of this, the transformation of payroll — as evidenced by our conversations out in the wild, at HR Technology Conference — and how payroll professionals can seize the moment to become strategic advisors to their organizations. It's one thing to be highly skilled in work that organizational leadership may view as background noise. It's quite another to become bearers of crucially informative data that can change the C-suite's basic understanding of the workforce. That's when payroll and strategy start to occupy the same sentences. I really enjoyed this discussion with Pete and highly encourage readers to tune into this episode.

Steven Bandrowczak, quien anteriormente fuese designado como CEO interino, ahora es reconocido oficialmente por Xerox como su nuevo CEO, llegando a ocupar este cargo gracias a su gran desempeño y amplia experiencia en compañías como CareAR, Alight Solutions, Hewlett Packard, Avaya, Lenovo, DHL y Avnet, denotando una gran trayectoria a lo largo de su carrera.

Kashiana Singh (http://www.kashianasingh.com) calls herself a work practitioner and embodies the essence of her TEDx talk - Work as Worship into her every day. Her chapbook Crushed Anthills from Yavanika Press in 2020 is a journey that unravels memory through 10 cities. She proudly serves as a Managing Editor for Poets Reading the News, and her voice is read and heard on various international platforms. Kashiana's first poetry collection is called, Shelling Peanuts and Stringing Words. Her newest full-length collection, Woman by the Door has just been released with Apprentice House Press. Kashiana lives in North Carolina and carries her various geopolitical homes within her poetry.Besides being a learner of poetry, Kashiana's last corporate assignment spanning 16 years was as Vice President, Health and Benefits Operations with Alight Solutions.

We've recently discussed the notion of The Great Regret, and the disappointing experience when you make the serious decision to leave your job for another opportunity, and then the other opportunity, well, doesn't quite live up to your expectations. We are digging into that exact scenario today! We are very excited to welcome James Hughes to the podcast. James is the HCM Deployment Lead for Workday at Alight Solutions, and he joined us to share about his big decision to leave his job to explore something new…and then how he pretty quickly realized it wasn't what he was looking for after all.   Key Takeaways: The shine of a big brand can be really alluring! Doing your research is still important. Before making a big move, one thing to assess is whether or not you really have the energy to start something fresh, build all new relationships, learn the new ropes, etc. It's a lot of effort! Life is short. Find happiness if you can. And know that what makes you happy can really shift and change over the course of our career lives.

What does it take to work your way up? What does it take to keep improving yourself? What does it take to consistently grow in life? Some of the (many, many, many) answers to these questions can be found in this episode. My guest today is Udbhav Desai, and he is nothing less than a prime example of what it means to work your way up. He has achieved a lot of success, all at a pretty young age. As he explains in this episode, he is always looking for new things to learn, ways to grow, and methods for achieving the most out of a situation. His drive to not only succeed but overachieve is evident. Udbhav was born in the state of Gujarat India. He moved to Toronto, Canada in second grade, and then New Jersey in sixth grade. He attended Northwestern University, earning a Bachelors and Masters in Chemical Engineering and a minor in Geography, as well as graduating Magna Cum Laude. He then spent 5 years in Madison, Wisconsin working for Epic Systems in numerous analytics-focused roles, from Solution Engineering to managing to Business Intelligence Engineering. Now, he works for Alight Solutions as a Senior Manager of Business Intelligence and Analytics. Alongside his impressive business career, he loves staying actively involved in dance opportunities, seizing guest roles whenever possible. In this episode, Udbhav talks about numerous ways that he achieved and now maintains his success. He discusses how he constantly looked for ways to go above and beyond in college to get the most out of his education. He explains the importance of balancing confidence and humility. He touches on what he calls the work-life swing (and why he calls it that). And he states that instead of waiting your turn for success, you should "make it your turn." That is just scratching the surface of the ideas Udbhav has to offer on this topic. It's clear that Udbhav has reflected deeply on how he achieved his success and the mental state required to continue to grow and improve in life. Today, he shares that knowledge with you! Links: LinkedIn for Udbhav: http://linkedin.com/in/udbhavd/ Email for Udbhav: desai.udbhav@gmail.com Mindful Ontogeny website: www.mindfulontogeny.com Podcast Page: Triple E Podcast (mindfulontogeny.com) Triple E Podcast Contact: triple3epodcast@gmail.com Mindful Ontogeny Contact: mindfulontogeny@gmail.com Triple E Podcast Instagram: @triple_e_podcast Mindful Ontogeny Instagram: @mindfulontogeny Contact for host Jessica: @dancerjess1

Join Imran Sajid and Pete Tiliakos as they keep it real on cryptocurrency as a payment method via Payroll. Join us as we explore the following thoughts and questions Takeaways from the recent American Payroll Association session on crypto payments including trends in the space What are some of the risks and legal considerations? What about the concerns around volatility? Is this something that makes sense to do? What are the ways an employer could accomplish this and which one is best? Relevant Articles & Content: https://blogs.sap.com/2022/05/06/enablement-of-cryptocurrency-payments-for-sap-solutions/ https://www.alight.com/blog/apa-congress-2022-event-recap Imran Sajid is a chief HR and payroll solution expert at SAP SuccessFactors who has written his own software course taught globally, authored 3 books on technology, spoken at conferences around the world, and founded his own podcast. Imran has expertise in cloud and on-premise software with direct experience across Product Management, Marketing, Education, Professional Services, Pre-Sales, and Sales. Twitter Handle: @ImranSajidATL Pete Tiliakos is a recognized global payroll expert, former industry analyst, and currently working at Alight Solutions where he guides the vision, roadmap, go-to-market, and growth strategy for their global payroll product offering. Twitter Handle: @PeteTiliakos --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/imran-sajid/message

In today’s episode, I speak with Dr. Eric Bricker. Dr. Bricker is a physician and internist who came to healthcare by an indirect route. As you’ll hear, Dr. Bricker began his career on the healthcare finance side of the business. As a result, he is one of the most knowledgeable physicians I’ve met about the business of healthcare. While still in residency at John’s Hopkins, he started a company called Compass Professional Health Services. The company, in the healthcare navigation space, grew to over 1.8 million members and 2,000 plus clients and sold to Alight Solutions in 2018. He is also the founder of Texas Family Insurance and currently serves as the Medical Director of Simple Pay Health and Coupe Health. But I learned about Dr. Becker’s expertise through his role as Chief Medical Officer of AHealthcareZ where he puts out brief but insightful videos on healthcare finance with more than 100,000 monthly views on LinkedIn, YouTube and AhealthcareZ.com. Dr. Bricker is a passionate advocate for healthcare reform and the value of primary care. We cover a lot of ground in today’s episode including his background, early career and then we get into his informed views on the nature of our current system, its origins, and the potential solutions. The difference is Dr. Becker’s views are based on first-hand knowledge and results that he has been able to deliver for businesses to keep healthcare cost down or even flat for years. Listen in as he breaks down complexity to solutions that are simple and easy to understand. There is a wealth of information here that you don’t want to miss. Time to get curious…are you ready to connect?

In today's podcast episode we're stepping into a completely different realm of health. I'm joined by coach, speaker, and author Darcy Eikenberg as we discuss her new book “Red Cape Rescue: Save Your Career Without Leaving Your Job”. What we do (or don't do) from 9-5 has a huge impact on our health. If your JOB is a big source of stress, this is the conversation for you. Darcy Eikenberg is on a mission to help us change our lives at work without having to change everything in our lives, especially during times of great change (and face it—when AREN'T we managing change?) She's the author of Red Cape Rescue: Save Your Career Without Leaving Your Job which shows how to get more of what you want without resorting to drastic measures of changing careers or finding a new job—and without sacrificing your health or family life. Her strategies help generate more clarity, confidence, and control—plus, they inspire a bit of courage to help handle our complex lives at work. She's coached leaders at companies such as Aon, The Coca-Cola Company, State Farm, and Deloitte, and offers encouraging ways to change work for the better, for good. Before launching her leadership career coaching firm RedCapeRevolution.com, Darcy was a principal at human resources consulting firm Hewitt Associates (now part of Alight Solutions), where she served on both the Southeast and the North American Communication Consulting Leadership teams. She's been quoted in Forbes, Thrive Global, Mashable, The Ladders, CNN, and more. Connect directly through her free Insider Community at RedCapeInsider.com and get the latest stories, career strategies, and free tools. To connect with Dr. Alex further visit: www.emergentwomencoaching.com Send an email to Dr. Alex- dralex@emergentwomencoaching.com Get $230 off an initial consultation https://www.emergentwomencoaching.com/voucher-7421 Get more free trainings and connect with our private community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/trwcommunity Be sure to check out our website, follow us on Facebook and Linked In, and Instagram.

There's been a recent surge in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in professional services. But what's behind the bustle of deal booms? And, most importantly, what are the key ingredients for M&A success? Michael Hemingway of Alight Solutions and industry expert Mark Turner share insights about trends and how companies can more easily and quickly integrate their M&As after the deal dust settles. https://blog.workday.com/en-us/2022/workday-podcast-professional-services-firms-ignite-ma-success.html

In the first episode of season two of the HR Trends podcast, Clare Morin speaks to Brian Kropp, Chief of Research and Distinguished Vice President at Gartner, and Polly Nicholas, Senior Vice President and Head of Solutions at Unum Group, about the fundamental shifts happening in HR and how business leaders who respond to the holistic needs of their employees will win the talent and retention game. Key takeawaysAs the line between work and home have become blurred, it's caused a reconsideration of the place of work in an employee's life.  (7:55)This requires a different approach and a new type of leader.  (9:35)This shift can also be seen in what employers and employees want in terms of benefits. (11:40)Supporting employees in this broader, more holistic way is also better for business. “When organizations are more effective at meeting the mental health needs, the family needs, the community needs of their employees,” says Kropp, “Those employees perform at a higher level, are less likely to quit, they are more engaged with their work, they sleep better at night, and the list goes on and on.  By improving the lives of our employees, we help the performance of our organizations.” (13:15)Employee leave programs are becoming focused around personas. “Even the leave and time off conversation used to be this big block of people who just needed to take time off. And tomorrow, it's about a persona,” says Nicholas. “And it's how we begin to shift thinking about leave policies and compliance, to what does a person need who's planning a leave? What does a person need when they have a very unplanned event and there's an emergent moment happening? How are those needs different? And how are we surrounding them, and back to Corey Barret's sort of scaffolding, how are we surrounding them because there's this opportunity to offer solutions that do just that.” (28:20) External shocks -- the pandemic, supply chain disruptions, and the war in Ukraine -- have turned ideas about good management on their head. “The focus up to now has been on efficiency, on stripping costs as much as possible,” explains Kropp. “When we have a management strategy that is maximizing efficiency, we also have a strategy that is unwittingly maximizing fragility. It's like inflating a balloon with as much air as possible right up to the point where it breaks. That strategy is fine if there's nothing in the environment that can cause a balloon to break. What we've realized is there's lots of things in the environment that can cause the balloon to break.” (31:00)Featured speakers: Brian Kropp Chief of Research and Distinguished Vice President, GartnerBrian Kropp oversees the lines of business that support Chief Human Resources Officers and their leadership teams. He works with this cadre of leaders to develop strategic plans that will attract and retain top talent. Dr. Kropp has authored more than 40 research studies at Gartner, led more than 200 strategy sessions with executive teams at Fortune 100 companies and more than 300 Executive Education sessions across the globe.  Polly NicholasSenior Vice President and Head of Solutions, Unum GroupPolly Nicholas is the Senior Vice President and Head of Solutions at Unum Group. With more than 20 years of experience driving growth and operational improvement and a passion for connecting people, purpose and results, Nicholas leads Unum's rapidly expanding solutions businesses, attracting new clients and expanding the support provided through a suite of technology-first solutions including Unum Total Leave™, Behavioral Health and Unum HR Connect solutions. Prior to Unum, Nicholas held leadership roles at global firms Alight Solutions and Aon Hewitt.

“Strive for your own,” said Kelly Pirro as she detailed why you should always choose your own career path. Kelly is a Workday Associate Manager at Alight Solutions, and in this episode, she helps us understand what organization means in Anchor. Joined by special guest host, Olivia Draper, a former Teaching Assistant and new alumna, Kelly Pirro is happy to share her experiences managing a team. Listen to hear all about her career, how she leverages organization to find a delicate balance as a manager, and also what she learned during her transition from college to the working world. Special Guest Host: Olivia Draper Podcast Editor: Sade Proctor

How many of your employees can stitch together $500 in a crisis? Will money worries impact their physical health? These are tough questions to answer if you don't have a full grasp of the problem. Join Colin Brennan, Chief Customer Officer at Alight Solutions, on #MillenniumLive, as he discusses the link between two of life's biggest stressors: health and financial insecurity. We cover personalized benefit experiences, overall utilization in greater services like healthcare, mental health, & overall wellness. Colin helps us break down how recent events have completely shifted the traditional employer-employee relationship and has jump started the Era of the Employee. Alight Solutions is proving that next level transformation begins with your people. 

Like many of us in the working world today, Darcy Eikenberg wears a lot of hats. She's been an executive coach to leaders at organizations such as The Coca-Cola Company, Microsoft, State Farm, Deloitte Consulting, and more. She consults and speaks about career growth, employee engagement, and leadership development all over the world.She's the author of Red Cape Rescue: Save Your Career Without Leaving Your Job and blogs regularly on leadership and career issues at RedCapeRevolution.com. Her ideas have been shared in the Harvard Business Review, Thrive Global, CNN.com. The Ladders, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Forbes, among others. She's an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Professional Certified Coach (or PCC), former principal and communication consulting business leader at Hewitt Associates (now part of Alight Solutions) and graduated from Northwestern University.Darcy brings a sense of encouragement and humor to serious matters in our work and careers and offers simple, practical ways we can transform our lives at work, right where we are, right now.LinksRedCapeRescue.com: for details about the bookRedCapeRevolution.com/Insider: for free weekly career strategies and toolsRedCapeQuiz.com: for a customized plan to help you decide whether it's time to move on or stay in your job

On this episode of The Open Talent Report, Connor is joined by Pete A. Tiliakos.Pete is the Global Payroll Product Strategy Leader at Alight Solutions, a leading cloud-based provider of integrated digital human capital and business solutions.This is episode is full of some amazing insights into topics such as:How  we can increase veteran's participation in the workforceWhat can be done to bring rehabilitated non violent criminals into the workforce?How can we prepare people for the jobs of today and the jobs of the futureIs there a HR tech bubble?Is borderless hireless hiring here to stay?Can public talent marketplaces solve the talent shortages that large organisations are facing?Is remote work a cure or curse?Connect with Connor: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hrmconnorheaney/Connect with Pete: https://www.linkedin.com/in/petetiliakos/Visit CXC: www.cxcglobal.comVisit ISG: https://isg-one.com/index

In this healthcare podcast, I'm speaking with Eric Bricker, MD, about how so many entities in healthcare are getting up in other people's business and swimming in other people's traditional lanes. Consider last week's show with Katy Talento, for example. She mentions employers who are not only doing their own direct contracting (ie, cutting out the traditional carriers and negotiating directly with provider organizations) but also employee benefit consultants who are working on setting up their own hospital—an employer-owned hospital. That was episode 350, and while this hospital idea is a little future oriented, right now today, across the country, we have employers and also unions who are owning their own primary care clinics, which I discussed at some length with Mark Blum from America's Agenda (EP248).   In this episode with Dr. Bricker, we start from the beginning. We kick off the conversation talking about the payer, PBM, and hospital system horizontal consolidation that has transpired over the past decades (that's plural). Horizontal consolidation is pretty much the easiest way to decimate all competition in your own swim lane so that you can charge more and not worry so much about patient/customer/member experience because the patients/customers/members have no better alternative. They effectively have nowhere, or few other places at best, to go if they leave you. So, what's the impact of horizontal consolidation? We get into this in the podcast, but subsequent to this recording, there was a study that came out in JAMA: “The Dysfunctional Health Benefits Market and Implications for US Employers and Employees.” This was by David Scheinker, PhD; Arnold Milstein, MD; and Kevin Schulman, MD. This study showed that commercial insurance costs have gone up 4x the rate of other benchmark goods and services. Bottom line, “It is assumed that insurers compete intensely to improve the value received by employers and employees by negotiating to keep prices down and advocating for employers and employees.” Ha ha … NOT.   With peak horizontal consolidation, there is little meaningful competition—so ixnay on that premise. By the way, if anyone knows any of those authors that I just cited in that study, hit me up. I'd love to get one of them on the show. But let's spend a moment, shall we, on the human impact of all this extreme consolidation. The impact is your sister, your neighbor, your son, your friend. So many feel so much pressure financially in our country today because of healthcare costs. Even families earning significantly more than median household income are forgoing care because of costs. Again, this was in a recent paper. (The authors are Alyce S. Adams, Raymond Kluender, Neale Mahoney, Jinglin Wang, Francis Wong, and Wesley Yin.)   But the direct observable financial toxicity resulting from high healthcare patient costs is really only the tip of the iceberg here. As Dave Chase from Health Rosetta has said a million times already, high healthcare costs have a multitude of effects on employers, big and small. One big one is, if healthcare costs more, then there's less money for salaries. Dave, citing lots of evidence, has long attributed wage stagnation in this country to accelerating healthcare costs, which became even more rampant during periods of industry consolidation. Dave Chase leads Health Rosetta, by the way. Here's another human toxicity: Listen to episode 337 with Oliva Webb on the impact on her life as a result of the undeniably and unquestionably common non-excellent treatment by the PBMs and SPPs that she has to deal with. Because, as Dr. Bricker also says, no competition means basically not a whole lot of concern about patient experience. Why should a for-profit business spend money to improve something when there's nothing really to be gained for them financially to do so? I mean, the best a patient can do most of the time is hop from the frying pan into the fire. That's what happens when there's no competition or no real competition. Also consider the burned-out clinicians who have to get stuck in the middle of this nobody-really-cares-at-the-monopoly customer service paperwork quagmire.  By the way, here's a sidebar that might come as a surprise to some people, but please take this in the spirit with which it's intended. All of us innovators and lifelong learners, we want to update our beliefs when the facts show us an updated conclusion. So, I have learned that all of this consolidation was going on long before the ACA (Affordable Care Act). My point here is to please look into this well-documented trend line before reflexively tweeting that the ACA drove consolidation. Dr. Bricker and others like Dr. Mai Pham have told me that, in their opinion, low interest rates, cheap debt, and a desire to eliminate competition are wildly powerful drivers of consolidation. Anyway, about nine minutes into the interview with Dr. Bricker, if you're one of the ones who knows all you care to know about horizontal consolidation, we get into vertical integration, vertical consolidation—and this is where things get interesting. And when I say interesting, I mean it in a “we live in interesting times” kind of way. The vertical consolidation conversation segues into whose swim lane that the digital health and other innovators or, dare I say, disrupters are diving into and whose lunch they are aiming to eat. Dr. Bricker probably needs no introduction. He is the force behind AHealthcareZ, which you can find online, on Twitter, YouTube, and LinkedIn. He has worked as a clinician, in healthcare finance, and currently serves as a chief medical officer. If that weren't enough, he's also been an entrepreneur—a very successful entrepreneur, I might add. He started one of the first healthcare navigation firms called Compass Professional Health Services. Compass had something like 2000 employer clients serving about 1.8 million people when it was purchased in, I believe, 2018.   You can connect with Dr. Bricker on Twitter at @DrEricB and on LinkedIn.  Eric Bricker, MD, is an internal medicine physician and former cofounder and chief medical officer of Compass Professional Health Services. Compass is a healthcare navigation service that grew to 2000+ clients, including T-Mobile, Southwest Airlines, and Chili's/Maggiano's restaurants. Compass was acquired by Alight Solutions in July 2018. Alight is a 10,000-person employee benefits and HR outsourcing company that separated from Aon in 2017. Dr. Bricker has since started AHealthcareZ.com, with 170+ healthcare finance videos with approximately 90,000 views per month across all platforms. He is also the author of Healthcare Money Campfire Stories.  06:30 What is this “megatrend” happening in healthcare right now? 07:52 How has consolidation changed the healthcare landscape? 10:22 What is vertical integration within healthcare? 11:48 Why doesn't inorganic growth benefit patients? 13:33 “What is best for the patient does not necessarily make the most money.” 14:43 “It's not that it's above the law … it is just intentionally obscured.” 18:58 “Healthcare is glacial. It is slow.” 23:23 “The largest source of healthcare costs is hospitals.” 25:48 EP330 with John Marchica.29:17 “What have the historical priorities been of the administrators of those hospitals?” 29:32 “Every hospital CFO knows that they need sick people.” 30:18 EP343 with David Carmouche.30:59 “The payment change has to come first.” 32:17 “The money wins.” 34:12 “You've got to put the financial incentives in place … to make people actually behave the way that they should.” You can connect with Dr. Bricker on Twitter at @DrEricB and on LinkedIn. @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth What is this “megatrend” happening in healthcare right now? @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth How has consolidation changed the healthcare landscape? @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth What is vertical integration within healthcare? @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth Why doesn't inorganic growth benefit patients? @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth “What is best for the patient does not necessarily make the most money.” @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth “It's not that it's above the law … it is just intentionally obscured.” @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth “Healthcare is glacial. It is slow.” @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth “The largest source of healthcare costs is hospitals.” @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth “What have the historical priorities been of the administrators of those hospitals?” @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth “Every hospital CFO knows that they need sick people.” @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth “The payment change has to come first.” @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth “The money wins.” @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth “You've got to put the financial incentives in place … to make people actually behave the way that they should.” @DrEricB discusses #healthcare's changing landscape on our #healthcarepodcast. #podcast #digitalhealth   Recent past interviews: Click a guest's name for their latest RHV episode! Katy Talento, Stacey Richter (INBW33), Stacey Richter (INBW32), Dr Steve Schutzer (Encore! EP294), Lisa Trumble, Jeb Dunkelberger, Dr Ian Tong, Mike Schneider, Peter Hayes, Paul Simms, Dr Steven Quimby, Dr David Carmouche (EP343), Christin Deacon, Gary Campbell, Kristin Begley, David Contorno (AEE17), David Contorno (EP339), Nikki King, Olivia Webb, Brandon Weber, Stacey Richter (INBW30), Brian Klepper (AEE16), Brian Klepper (EP335), Sunita Desai, Care Plans vs Real World (EP333), Dr Tony DiGioia, Al Lewis, John Marchica  

La multinacional Alight Solutions ya cuenta en su centro granadino con 1.500 empleados en el sector tecnológico, en alza en esta tierra. Hablamos con su vicepresidente mundial Javier Toni

This week on the KORE Women podcast Dr. Summer Watson speaks with Darcy Eikenberg, who is a professional certified coach, Author of "Red Cape Rescue: Save Your Career Without Leaving Your Job,” Private Coach to Leaders & High Performing Teams, Keynote Speaker, and Workshop Facilitator for Companies & Professional Associations. Like many of us in the working world today, Darcy Eikenberg wears a lot of hats. She's been an executive coach to leaders at organizations such as The Coca-Cola Company, Microsoft, State Farm, Deloitte Consulting, and more. She consults and speaks about career growth, employee engagement, and leadership development all over the world, and shares career and workplace strategies regularly at RedCapeRevolution.com. Her ideas have been shared in the Harvard Business Review, Thrive Global, CNN.com. The Ladders, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and Forbes, among others. Darcy is an International Coaching Federation (ICF) Professional Certified Coach (or PCC), former principal and communication consulting business leader at Hewitt Associates (now part of Alight Solutions) and graduated from Northwestern University. Darcy brings a sense of encouragement and humor to serious matters in our work and careers, and offers simple, practical ways we can transform our lives at work, right where we are, right now. To connect with Darcy Eikenberg go to: Darcy@RedCapeRevolution.com or find her on LinkedIn. Her book, "Red Cape Rescue: Save Your Career Without Leaving Your Job” can be found on Amazon, Target and other retailers.  Thank you for taking the time to listen to the KORE Women podcast and being a part of the KORE Women experience. You can listen to The KORE Women podcast on your favorite podcast directory - Pandora, iHeartRadio, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, YouTube, Spotify, Stitcher, Podbean, and at: www.KOREWomen.com/podcast. Please leave your comments and reviews about the podcast and check out KORE Women on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. You can also learn more about Dr. Summer Watson and KORE Women at: www.korewomen.com

Marketing experts from Alight Solutions, Wrike, True Influence, VDC and Stirista discuss AI, demand generation, intent, and compliance and privacy.

How do you define the value of an HR modernization project at a time when multiple departments are fighting for post-Covid budget?Project managers can fall into the trap of being unrealistic with business cases and not fully taking into account innovation, available resources and budget constraints. Failing to do this heightens the likelihood of project failure, or at least issues with the timeline or smooth running of the project.It's therefore crucial that before all else project viability is proven. Start with the stakeholder who have most influence on your project. These usually control the essential resources and expertise needed for success. Getting their formal buy-in upfront is crucial.Next, depending on the project size, scope and complexity, you must fully understand the operational objectives of each stakeholder. By doing this, you get their support, feedback and identify any potential resistance, ahead of building out and presenting the business plan.In this Alight On episode, our expert team will provide you with powerful tips to help get your business case, and give your HR transformation project, the best chance of long term success.

The average Fortune 500 company combines between 50 and 150 different technology platforms and programs to deliver a range of employee solutions—from benefits, to payroll, to career and talent management, to voluntary benefits.   This means employees often are pushed to multiple systems to make decisions, leaving them overwhelmed, confused and frustrated trying to navigate so many different places.  This fragmented approach results in a stressed and struggling workforce and impacts organizations' bottom line. HR teams have an opportunity to address these challenges, and help drive business success and deliver value.Listen to our podcast where key leaders from Alight discuss how employers can rethink the array of technology platforms and programs needed to deliver employee solutions and implement technology that engage employees in both work and life and drives better business outcomes.

Zac Slabaugh is a Regional Sales Director with the high-touch, white glove enrollment solution Alight Benefits Guidance. He's a problem solver who works with organizations on strategic ideas to engage and educate their employees. It has been Zac's constant focus to simplify the complex and create strategies and systems for HR leaders to implement that can have immediate and positive results. Connect w/ Zac: LI: linkedin.com/in/zacharyslabaugh

This episode of Conversations with Tech Experts features Bruce Gust - Software Developer at Alight Solutions. He joins Experts Exchange CEO Randy Redberg and Director of Bus. Dev. Thomas Bernal to discuss his unique career path and the perspective of being a member of Experts Exchange. Bruce begins the show by telling the story of his career - how he started as a drummer in a band with a top 40 hit and evolved into a PHP Developer. They go on to discuss the importance of community - and Bruce gives shout-outs to a few different EE members who have helped change his career. They finish the conversation with Bruce sharing  perspective on the future of his industry & he implores every tech professional to 'broaden their base.' 

Kelley Michalik, Chief Marketing Officer at Alight Solutions, details her journey with the company and how her role enables a mindset for reinvention. She also shares her surprising response to when someone gets her name wrong in an email. Ajay has a customer service nightmare, and Vincent lends an ear.

As we enter a new chapter of the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations are now analyzing what the future state of their workplace will look like. If there is one thing that we have learned, it is that every company and their workforce has had a unique experience with responding to the pandemic.

As digital transformation projects that were stopped or delayed due to the pandemic look to restart, they are competing for limited company resources, changing priorities and uncertain budgets. Companies are faced with returning to some level of normalcy but with new cost-optimization challenges, an increased list of lessons learned from the pandemic, and less budget to get it all done. With a renewed appreciation for how quickly the world can change, companies no longer have the luxury of time and money to get their transformations done, they are faced with prioritization challenges and resource constraints and are increasingly looking for a way to mitigate the project risks.Join us for this episode to learn how you can transform your HR/Payroll service to an enhanced, agile, and more future-proof service experience using an accelerated approach that reduces risk and guarantees cost savings.   

Leaders understand strategy and data-driven decision-making, yet many struggle to operationalize insights across the entire enterprise — particularly when it comes to applying the same rigor around people decisions as they do to other financial considerations. Unfortunately, without an in-depth understanding of, and visibility into, employee experience, organizations risk long-term repercussions, including poor morale, a tarnished brand reputation, and revenue loss.Listen to this month’s episode to learn how you can better use your own data to increase employee engagement, while simultaneously improving business outcomes.

2020 brought its fair share of challenges to the workforce. The impacts of a global pandemic on healthcare were widely experienced, and employees were hit with change and uncertainty like never before. People’s personal health and wealth were evaluated more closely, and organizations looked for new ways to keep employees engaged and confident in their work and wellbeing.In this episode we will evaluate the behaviors and overall wellbeing of employees and discuss the types of changes and support we’ve seen organizations provide to alleviate some of the challenges and disruptions this year has presented.

A smooth start to the new year requires a well thought out planning strategy to close out 2020. Companies that have invested in cloud technology enjoy many advantages over their competitors around year-end planning that allow them to predict their budgetary and workforce needs more accurately, minimize costly human errors and stay on top of their data throughout the year to cut down on the amount of work that must be done now. Our panelists discuss how their HR, finance and payroll teams have been positively impacted around year-end prep with Alight’s move to cloud technology and what you and your company can expect to see as you make the decision to modernize your business.

From expanding the Affordable Care Act (ACA) so it includes public insurance options to increasing the corporate tax rate, President-elect Biden has proposed a broad set of policies, many of which could have long-term implications for employers.Listen to our podcast, Alight on the 2020 U.S. election, where our experts discuss what employers can expect during the Biden presidency and what impact his proposals could have on healthcare coverage, retirement security and tax rates.

Organizations today must compete for top candidates more aggressively than ever before and once they have secured this top talent, what can they do to retain these workers? This episode reviews the recruiting and talent capabilities of the Cloud that are designed not only to assist in attracting candidates to your organization, but also to keep them from seeking out your competitors.

Accelerated by a global pandemic, the future of the workforce – and their needs – has evolved overnight. Creating meaningful experiences while achieving the right outcomes is paramount for any organization’s strategy. With work and life blending, is your benefits platform hitting the mark? Join us for this month’s episode to learn how you can unlock value for your organization and people with data and AI.We’ll discuss:How employers can transform their strategies to meet the needs of an evolving workforceWhat types of experiences create the greatest impact for the varying needs of employeesOutcomes that organizations can achieve by integrating their benefits into a single destination

Back in 2015, Katie Rooney was only 7 months into her first industry CFO role at Aon when her boss asked her to exit the office. “He came into my office on November 1 and said, ‘I’m retiring, and I want you to take on my role. I’m leaving in 8 weeks,’” recalls Rooney, who says that the news triggered a mix of surprise and fear, which she recalls outwardly expressing with the words “Oh, my God!” Her boss quickly sought to ease her concerns. “He said: ‘You know what? It will be the best thing for you. If I stick around, you will never get the credit from the team,” explains Rooney, who subsequently swapped her CFO business unit responsibilities for her boss’s broader, divisional-level CFO portfolio. Looking back, Rooney confides that she expected to someday to fill her boss’s shoes, but perhaps in 2017 or 2018—and certainly not in 2015. For her, though, the timing would turn out to be most fortuitous. In early 2017, 13 months after she had officially taken on her boss’s role, Aon announced plans to sell its employee benefits outsourcing business to private equity firm Blackstone Group as part of a “carve out” strategy that eventually rebranded the stand-alone business as Alight Solutions. “We called ourselves a $2.3 billion startup,” remembers Rooney, who says that she now realizes how her boss’s decision to step aside in late 2015 ensured her inclusion in the early round of discussions that ultimately led to a deal with Blackstone and her subsequent appointment as CFO of Alight Solutions. “We kind of had this moment when we said, ‘The capital structure and some of the margin components just don’t fit with the larger business,’ so we started thinking about carving the business out,” responds Rooney, when asked to recall the moment of insight that may have helped to hatch Alight Solutions. –Jack Sweeney Rooney:  As I think about the next 12 months, we have to execute on the strategy we've now brought together. We are at this incredible place in time where our business is uniquely positioned to help solve the needs of our clients and their employees. We can help drive down the total cost of the workforce. We can try to drive and improve health outcomes. And as we think about the financial stresses created by the pandemic, thinking about overall financial wellbeing, there's so much opportunity here, and we've pulled the strategy together, and as I mentioned, I think we've built the right KPIs around it. We're now working on building out a detailed operating plan that will hold us accountable day over day around executing against this, because its about driving more value. We're taking an outcome based approach. We're leading with technology and really looking at everything, but we now have to hold ourselves accountable day over day to execute against that. And I think finance plays an incredibly important role there as we think about how we develop the operating plan to get all of our leaders, all of our businesses, aligned around what's required to drive that forward. So that's really where we're focused here over the next couple of months.

As the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to be felt and uncertainties on Wall Street and in the workplace remain, financial health is now more top of mind than ever for U.S. workers. These challenges present employers with a prime opportunity to provide their people much needed support to help improve their financial wellbeing.Traditionally, when we think about financial wellness and employer-sponsored initiatives, the focus is often on saving for retirement. In recent years, as the makeup of the workforce has shifted and workers continue to have more diverse savings needs, the traditional definition of financial health has grown to encompass the entire savings journey up to and including retirement.

Real-time data analytic capabilities are now a non-negotiable application feature in today’s technology landscape. Find out how the Cloud gives organizations an advantage when growing their analytics strategy and how this is key to delivering on promises to your stakeholders, including reduced cost, process improvements and actionable data driven insights.

Ethan Carlson, vice president at Alight Solutions, discusses the strong correlation between continuous planning and business agility, how technology enables planning, and why organizations are empowering people beyond the finance team with planning capabilities.

The payroll function today is adapting to be a more strategic business partner in order to provide more impact and increase business value. We spoke to Colin Brennan, an executive at Alight Solutions, about this shift and what it means for organizations and their employees.

The necessity of a remote workforce showed organizations the range of virtual employment possibilities and many have opted to keep these flexible working policies in place. Ensure your organizational platform can support business continuity within your workforce as operations continue outside of the office.

The global pandemic has heightened uncertainty for employers and their people in all aspects of their lives, but one thing is certain – mitigating risk is imperative as employers prepare for annual enrollment. As the unemployment rate increases, how do organizations minimize eligibility risks to their benefit plans and address healthcare cost backlogs from COVID-19?Join us for this latest episode to learn:Employer compliance trends in the era of COVID-19How to minimize healthcare cost risks for the 2021 plan yearValuable business outcomes beyond compliance

To deliver on your business goals, you must look at innovating more than just your technology. We'll discuss the importance of transforming your operating model and the optimal mix of in-house and external support.

As HR and business leaders begin to evaluate how and when to start bringing their people back to physical workspaces, employee wellbeing has never been more top of mind. But regardless of whether your people are headed back to the workplace or will continue to work remote for the foreseeable future, the importance of maintaining a happy, healthy and productive workforce remains a constant. Employees are looking to their employers to help support their holistic wellbeing now more than ever before, and organizations need to be ready to adapt their strategy to meet those needs.

Deploying new solutions usually requires sufficient planning to integrate the technology into current operations. Throw a global pandemic into the mix, and suddenly that planning has to shift to accommodate new remote conditions. On the Workday Podcast, Scott Palzkill, vice president of IT at Alight Solutions, shares his best practices and lessons learned from undergoing a virtual deployment.

In this episode, learn how to leverage your finance, payroll and HR cloud platform 1, 3 and 5+ years after go-live. Our panelists review the first considerations to think about after your cloud solution is live, as well as where the areas for optimization lie for seasoned cloud users and how Application Managed Services can support your business from an ROI perspective.

As payroll continues to transform around workforce needs and growing technology, organizations must ensure they can keep pace. Our newest episode discusses what payroll solutions and services can help keep organizations technologically capable of handling these changes today and into the future.

In light of the current landscape, employee perceptions of their benefits have shifted. As an employer, you want to provide the best for your people when it comes to their offerings. Join us to learn how you can drive certain behaviors and better engage your employees during times of disruption and uncertainty.

In this episode, we will provide insights on why establishing your cloud transformation strategy is important and how a solid foundation is formed when you have the right tools and model to support your workforce.

The first wave of this COVID-19 pandemic has been totally reactionary. Don’t get me wrong: That does not detract from the Herculean effort made by hospitals and clinicians who have thrown everything they have at this—and more. But I don’t think that anyone would disagree that if we had enough PPE (personal protective equipment) and ventilators—you know, like, proactively—we’d be in better shape. So let’s stay ahead of the second wave of this pandemic, which is going to happen when, as Marty Makary put it in episode 267, the backlog of patients who were scared to or unable to get care for a few months creep out of their homes. What happens when patients who should have gotten a tumor removed or had a colonoscopy because of GI bleeding or felt the symptoms of a heart attack but did not get timely care?  In this health care podcast, I am speaking with Eric Bricker, MD, from AHealthcareZ; and we’re talking about how the post-COVID-19 new normal may shape up. One way to conceive of what health care will be moving forward is to look at how stakeholders are impacted by the pandemic right now and what action steps they’re taking right now, because to a nontrivial degree, the moves made now will have an outsized impact on their success trajectory in the near term and long term in the months and years to come. I was super thrilled to have the chance to speak with Dr. Bricker. If you haven’t watched his videos on LinkedIn or at AHealthcareZ.com, you should definitely go and check them out.  You can connect with Dr. Bricker on Twitter at @DrEricB and on LinkedIn.  Eric Bricker, MD, is an internal medicine physician and former cofounder and chief medical officer of Compass Professional Health Services. Compass is a health care navigation service that grew to 2000+ clients, including T-Mobile, Southwest Airlines, and Chili's/Maggiano's restaurants. Compass was acquired by Alight Solutions in July 2018. Alight is a 10,000-person employee benefits and HR outsourcing company that separated from Aon in 2017. Dr. Bricker has since started AHealthcareZ.com, with 170+ health care finance videos with approximately 90,000 views per month across all platforms. He is also the author of Healthcare Money Campfire Stories.  02:48 How COVID-19 is impacting insurance carriers and payers. 06:16 How COVID-19 is going to affect payers with self-insured employers. 07:59 “The carrier’s revenue is going to go down because of layoffs.” 09:05 Other helpful or harmful COVID-19 factors to insurance carriers. 12:37 The risk to pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) revenue. 13:14 The financial stability of recent health system mergers. 14:03 The potential “cash crunch” for health systems because of COVID-19. 17:01 The issue with telehealth revenue right now. 20:57 EP251 with Dr. Kimberly Noel. 21:32 “In health care, you add technology and the price tends to go up.”—Stacey 22:02 “Telemedicine allows for geographic competition.” 22:19 How COVID-19 will affect specialty from a revenue perspective. 24:31 “An economic truism … one person’s spending is another person’s income.” 27:06 “Pain causes change.” 28:01 Do population health outcomes go up or down after COVID-19? 29:15 The high number of moves from high-deductible plans to Medicaid and how that will affect patient outcomes. 32:38 EP267 and EP268 with Dr. Marty Makary.33:02 Coming out of this peak, what hospitals need to be thinking about. You can connect with Dr. Bricker on Twitter at @DrEricB and on LinkedIn.  Check out our newest #healthcarepodcast with @DrEricB. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthtech #healthcarebilling #billing #covid19 #covid19billing #covid19healthcare How is #covid19 impacting #insurancecarriers and #healthpayers? @DrEricB discusses. #healthcarepodcast #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthtech #healthcarebilling #billing #covid19billing #covid19healthcare How will #covid19 affect #healthpayers with #selfinsured #employers? @DrEricB discusses. #healthcarepodcast #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthtech #healthcarebilling #billing #covid19billing #covid19healthcare “The carrier’s revenue is going to go down because of layoffs.” @DrEricB discusses. #healthcarepodcast #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthtech #healthcarebilling #billing #covid19 #covid19billing #covid19healthcare What’s the risk to #PBM revenue? @DrEricB discusses. #healthcarepodcast #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthtech #healthcarebilling #billing #covid19 #covid19billing #covid19healthcare What’s the issue with #telehealth revenue right now? @DrEricB discusses. #healthcarepodcast #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthtech #healthcarebilling #billing #covid19 #covid19billing #covid19healthcare “In health care, you add technology and the price tends to go up.” @DrEricB discusses. #healthcarepodcast #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthtech #healthcarebilling #billing #covid19 #covid19billing #covid19healthcare “Telemedicine allows for geographic competition.” @DrEricB discusses. #healthcarepodcast #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthtech #healthcarebilling #billing #covid19 #covid19billing #covid19healthcare How will #specialtyhealth revenue be affected by #covid19? @DrEricB discusses. #healthcarepodcast #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthtech #healthcarebilling #billing #covid19billing #covid19healthcare “An economic truism … one person’s spending is another person’s income.” @DrEricB discusses. #healthcarepodcast #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthtech #healthcarebilling #billing #covid19 #covid19billing #covid19healthcare “Pain causes change.” @DrEricB discusses. #healthcarepodcast #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthtech #healthcarebilling #billing #covid19 #covid19billing #covid19healthcare How will #populationhealthoutcomes be affected by #covid19? @DrEricB discusses. #healthcarepodcast #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthtech #healthcarebilling #billing #populationhealth #pophealth #covid19billing #covid19healthcare Coming out of this #covid19 peak, what should #hospitals be thinking about? @DrEricB discusses. #healthcarepodcast #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #healthtech #healthcarebilling #billing #covid19billing #covid19healthcare

What’s new in the world of AI and RPA? We’ll cover how and where to focus for the most strategic impact and discuss the latest technology trends.

When it comes to meeting your benefits technology needs, are you asking the right questions in your RFP to set yourself up for success?

Welcome to Humans of HR. We're a podcast show and a social movement focused on the everyday challenges people experience at work. Hosted by David Guazzarotto, Michelle Farrar-Eagles, Matt Smith and Jared Cameron. On this episode we get the full-length mirrors out and reflect on the subject of reflection. This time of year is often a time of reflection and this can lead to people seeking to change their situation. This brings both risk and opportunity for individuals and organizations, and we challenge HR to step up to the plate, that and much much more as always.... We'd love to get your feedback, topic suggestions and please refer us to other awesome humans that you know who would love to listen. Don't forget to hit the Subscribe button and provide a rating for our podcast in your favourite player. And, of course, post your questions to the social channels below using the hashtag #askthehumans.You can find us on Instagram @humans_of_hr and on Twitter - @HumansOfHRPod @DaveGazz @MFarrar_Eagles @Jazzacam @MattSmith_PL

As a new decade begins, employers are looking for new ways to diversify their benefits and optimize their usage among employees. From the rise of healthcare navigation to the increasing importance of employer-sponsored financial wellbeing initiatives, the world of health and wealth benefits continues to expand beyond its previously defined limits.Benefits that were innovative at the start of the decade are table stakes for today’s workers. Alight on is a video series too! Watch the episode here: http://alig.ht/ZE6050yaaBNSee what’s coming next and watch past episodes: http://alig.ht/rybC50yaanj

Ready for 2020? In this episode, we cover the top finance, HR and payroll trends as you prepare for the year ahead. Our panel of Alight experts share insights on what we expect to see going into 2020, and what will evolve throughout the year.We also reveal the top tips for proactively preparing your teams to start the year with confidence and identify potential opportunities for the future.Alight on is a video series too! Watch the episode here: http://alig.ht/X3BQ50yaaIQSee what’s coming next and watch past episodes: http://alig.ht/rybC50yaanj

Physician-turned-entrepreneur Dr. Eric Bricker joins Dr. Bob Kaiser for a discussion about healthcare reform through a financial lens. Bricker is a former internal medicine physician who co-founded Compass Professional Health Services. He sold the company to Blackstone-owned Alight Solutions then started AHealthcareZ, a healthcare finance video journal, to educate employers about the factors affecting their healthcare costs and quality. Bricker also discusses his new book, Healthcare Money Campfire Stories, which addresses in storyteller fashion how money influences healthcare and the practice of medicine.

Yabing Wang has master’s degrees in both Philosophy and Computer Science. She has over 20 years of experience in technology and cyber security. Currently Yabing is the VP of Global Security at Alight Solutions. Yabing is also a co-active life coach trained by Coaching Training Institute (CTI) in 2009. Yabing is an advocate for women in technology and women in cyber security. She has been playing an active role in leading the Women in Technology ERG group, and mentoring women in different companies. Yabing is an active speaker on many conferences from cyber security strategy to security control implementations, and from building success career to effective networking.

We had some technical difficulties with the original interview with Yabing. Listen as we captured her original moments of vulnerability. Yabing Wang has master’s degrees in both Philosophy and Computer Science. She has over 20 years of experience in technology and cyber security. Currently Yabing is the VP of Global Security at Alight Solutions. Yabing is also a co-active life coach trained by Coaching Training Institute (CTI) in 2009. Yabing is an advocate for women in technology and women in cyber security. She has been playing an active role in leading the Women in Technology ERG group, and mentoring women in different companies. Yabing is an active speaker on many conferences from cyber security strategy to security control implementations, and from building success career to effective networking.

Companies in Asia Pacific are investing heavily in fresh HR technology, as new innovative tools – from analytics to algorithms – help organisations use data more efficiently, effectively, and at scale. How is this mobile-first world we live in affecting HR? Are we gradually removing the “Human” from Human Resources? We discuss driving HR in the digital world with Vikrant Khanna from Alight Solutions.

Companies in Asia Pacific are investing heavily in fresh HR technology, as new innovative tools – from analytics to algorithms – help organisations use data more efficiently, effectively, and at scale. How is this mobile-first world we live in affecting HR? Are we gradually removing the “Human” from Human Resources? We discuss driving HR in the digital world with Vikrant Khanna from Alight Solutions.

Despite the increasing role of technology in the HR function, capability gaps and lack of collaboration are preventing HR from punching its weight, leading to three out of every four organisations planning to increase spend on the development of their HR capabilities. Alight Solutions held a survey recently and Shaswat Kumar, Asia leader, Advisory and Coud Solutions at Alight talks us through the findings of import and the implications they’ll have.

Alight Solutions – On this week’s episode, we have VP of Innovation at Alight Solutions, David Westfall. We talked with […]

The Alight team takes you through the highlights of Workday 31 - the latest release of the Workday platform. Dave walks through the new features for Recruiting, Performance and Succession; Gail adds another acronym to the growing library, but what do WECI, PECI and Aviici have in common?; and, we find out what floats the boat in the Advanced Compensation space for Melita. We welcome your feedback, questions and topic ideas. Please send them to David Dunne. Check us out on the usual social channels and the Alight website.

Episode 1 of our new podcast -Alighter Look at Workday - introduces the most experienced Workday team in Australia bantering about all things Workday. From tips and tricks, new ideas, commentary on new features, you'll stay up to date with our weekly banter. Send us your questions and feedback, we'd love to hear from you.

Dave G is joined by guest co-host and Side-Hustle coach,Ruby Lee, to interview modern day wizard-rogue, author and leadership adviser Dr Jason Fox live at the Australasian Talent Conference 2018 in Sydney.

Jared and Dave launch the 2018 series of Talking People and Technology. A new year, a new brand... we talk about the recent transition from Future Knowledge to Alight Solutions... and we cover the recent Cornerstone Convergence 2018 conference from San Diego.

In this episode, Steve Bandrowczak, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Information Officer at Alight Solutions, explains how new technologies and changing consumer expectations are disrupting the professional services industry, and how CIOs and IT leaders can position their firms to succeed.