A national restaurant brand with 33 locations across the country. At bartaco we are committed to creating a culture where bartaco team members can thrive, & succeed. At bartaco, we are committed to our team members’ holistic wellbeing and overall health.
Rich Hua is one of the world’s foremost experts in building emotionally intelligent cultures of innovation at scale. He built the world’s largest corporate-based EQ community of 70,000 members at Amazon, making him one of the few people who successfully scaled emotional intelligence from theory into a global movement.
Formerly the Chief EQ Evangelist and Worldwide Head of EPIC Leadership at Amazon, Rich’s work reached over 1.5 million people worldwide. He created the EPIC Leadership framework (Empathy, Purpose, Inspiration, Connection), which has influenced the mindset and behavior of leaders across the Fortune 500.
Rich was the expert advisor to the Amazon Alexa team as they imbued Alexa+ with empathy and emotional intelligence, helping shape an AI-powered virtual assistant embedded in over 600 million devices. He also served as Amazon’s Culture of Innovation Ambassador in Silicon Valley, where he advised thousands of C-suite executives on Amazon’s unique culture, leadership principles, and operating mechanisms.
Rich is a globally sought-after keynote speaker who consistently delivers the highest-rated sessions at elite leadership events to audiences as large as 10,000+. These include AWS ExecLeaders, Imagine for Nonprofits, AWS re:Invent, IBM Elevate, and Volkswagen Leadership Week. In his talks, Rich artfully blends science, storytelling, and actionable tools into a compelling message about the critical human skills needed for sustainable high performance, leadership inspiration, and transformation in the AI era.
Rich has collaborated with the world’s foremost researchers in emotional intelligence and translated decades of science into mindsets and tool sets leaders can use in real-world corporate environments. He has been featured in Forbes, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and AWS Executive Insights.
Rich founded the EPIQ Leadership Group to help leaders and organizations build adaptable, resilient, and innovative cultures that are both high-performing and highly human. This is crucial in a world being reshaped by AI. His message is timely and resonant: IQ alone is not enough. Leaders and organizations must harmonize their EQ with their IQ—what he calls the EPIQ skill set—to thrive and succeed in the midst of complexity, ambiguity, and opportunity.
Inspira Financial provides health, wealth, retirement, and benefits solutions that strengthen and simplify the health and wealth journey. Employers get simple, comprehensive, integrated health and financial benefits with expertise at every touchpoint — from onboarding to dedicated, ongoing account support for both employers of all sizes and your employees — thanks to Inspira’s experienced support teams and owned, adaptable technology.
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Athletic Heart meets the cardiac demands of elite level athletes by working collaboratively with
the organization’s cardiologist to provide superior patient care. AH’s remote, centralized PACS
provides consistent reporting, quality cardiac diagnostics and modernized processing.
Nox sleep care management delivers end-to-end, value-based sleep care that improves diagnosis, adoption, adherence, and long-term outcomes. Through integrated, virtual physician-led care, home diagnostics, and continuous support, the program closes critical sleep care gaps, enhances member experience, and reduces total cost of care.
Kindbody is a leading fertility, family-building, and women’s health company offering comprehensive clinical care and benefit solutions for employers, health plans, and individuals. Through its national network of signature clinics, partner practices, and virtual care, Kindbody provides end‑to‑end support spanning fertility treatment, third‑party reproduction, adoption, pregnancy, men’s health, menopause, and holistic well‑being.
MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET), through its subsidiaries and affiliates (“MetLife”), is one of
the world’s leading financial services companies, providing insurance, annuities,
employee benefits and asset management to help individual and institutional
customers build a more confident future. Founded in 1868, MetLife has operations in
more than 40 markets globally and holds leading positions in the United
States, Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. For more information,
visit www.metlife.com.
MetLife’s Group Benefits is the nation’s largest non-medical carrier of group insurance,
serving more 55,000 customers and covering more than 50 million employees and
family members. MetLife’s Group Benefits provides financial products and services to
94 of the top 100 Fortune 500 ® and over 80% of all Fortune 500 ® companies.
Your Money Line (YML) is a financial wellness benefit designed to help employees navigate their financial lives with clarity, confidence, and care. We combine smart, AI-powered technology with real human coaching to deliver meaningful, measurable outcomes for employees and their financial lives.
Private Health Management guides patients and families through the chaos and complexity of serious medical care, for cancer and beyond. Your partner during the toughest moments in healthcare, our independent team of experts works alongside your doctors to orchestrate the best treatment, advocacy, and support to deliver measurably better outcomes. You deserve great care. We make sure you get it.
Eric Silverman, Founder and Owner of Baltimore Maryland based Voluntary Disruption (VD), a division of Silverman Benefits Group (SBG), is considered one of the most recognized authorities and disruptive forces in enhanced employee funded benefits (the industry formerly known as “voluntary”).
Eric is widely known as a subject matter expert with more than 22 years of employee benefit sales, marketing, management and recruiting experience. He is often sought after and interviewed by various journalists from multiple industry publications such as BenefitsPRO, ThinkAdvisor (formerly LifeHealthPRO), and Employee Benefit News (EBN) online and print magazines. He is also frequently hired to deliver key notes and to speak on various expert panels at national industrywide and carrier conferences each year.
Eric has received the “Voluntary Adviser of the Year” award by Employee Benefit Adviser (EBA) magazine – one of the highest industrywide honors given to only one “voluntary” adviser annually. He is also a contributing author to the Amazon Best Selling employee benefits book, “Breaking Through The Status Quo.”
Eric is the host of his nationally recognized podcast, #RockstarsRocking, which can be found anywhere you consume and download podcasts – including Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon and many others. He’s been honored as a “Rising Star in Advising” by Employee Benefit Adviser magazine and can be found within the online and print pages of American’s Benefit Specialist, BenefitsPRO and EBN magazines as a regularly featured columnist and commentator.
Over the last decade alone, Eric has recruited, trained, and developed more than 2,000 commission sales agents, interns, and broker partners, which led to the securing of more than 2,500 commercial worksite payroll accounts and the generation of more than $200 million dollars in gross annualized sales revenue.
Prior to the insurance business, Eric had zero professional experience; starting his career as a college intern and quickly propelled into management; focusing most efforts on new business development through the procurement and development of new broker partners and the recruiting of college interns and career agents to support his broker focused initiative. His unique management style, coupled with his tenacious focus on detail, customer service, ethics and integrity are what has assured his consistent growth each year.