Join your peers for an interactive roundtable on how employers can apply precision health strategies to deliver more inclusive, effective benefits. Dr. Washington will kick off with insights on measuring whole-person health and designing care solutions that truly meet employees where they are. From there, the conversation will open up for attendees to share challenges, successes, and practical ideas for closing care gaps and improving outcomes across all employee populations.

Financial stress is one of the biggest challenges facing today’s workforce—impacting productivity, retention, and overall well-being. This interactive roundtable will explore how employers can build meaningful financial wellness programs that drive impact across generations and income levels.

We’ll begin with a brief overview of the current financial wellness landscape, including why it matters, how to gain leadership support, and ways to leverage existing benefits more effectively. Then, participants will engage in a peer-driven discussion covering strategies to close savings gaps, improve financial literacy, evaluate wellness partners, and boost engagement through effective communication.

Attendees will leave with actionable insights, real-world examples, and ideas for improving financial outcomes across their workforce.

With rising healthcare costs putting pressure on both employers and employees, the challenge is clear: how can organizations maintain high-quality, competitive benefits without passing the financial burden onto their workforce? This session will explore actionable strategies for controlling healthcare spend while prioritizing employee well-being. Learn how employers are gaining greater visibility and control by moving away from traditional BUCA models and adopting self-funded approaches, direct primary care models, and other innovative solutions. Panelists will share how they’ve used data analytics, alternative funding models, and smart vendor negotiations to drive sustainable savings. You’ll hear real-world examples of organizations that have successfully reduced or maintained costs while enhancing benefits—and how they’re reinvesting those savings into programs that support employee health, retention, and long-term growth.

When employees face a serious medical condition, the impact on their health and financial well-being can be devastating. These cases are also driving a significant share of rising healthcare costs for employers—yet many solutions still rely on fragmented, one-size-fits-all care. How can you prioritize personalized, expert-driven healthcare that delivers better health outcomes and financial savings for your company? In this session, Ropes and Gray LLP and Private Health Management (PHM) share learnings from their partnership, revealing how advanced care navigation provides employees with faster access to top specialists, reduces unnecessary treatments, and improves overall well-being. Attendees will gain actionable insights into how two organizations collaborated to introduce an innovative, next-generation benefit that transforms employee health. This case study will explore a cutting-edge model for improving clinical outcomes and the collaborative process for implementation and engagement, and it will demonstrate how personalized medicine reduces high-cost claims while offering employees the best of what’s possible in healthcare.

You may offer a world-class benefits package—but if employees don’t understand or engage with what’s available, it won’t move the needle on wellbeing, retention, or productivity. n this session, HR and benefits leaders will share strategies to ensure your workforce understands what’s available, how to access it, and why it matters. From creative year-round communication to personalized outreach and tech-enabled tools, learn how to clearly convey the value of your offerings and drive meaningful engagement across all employee groups.

This session draws on new research from Employee Benefit News and Quantum Health to reveal how employees and HR leaders view today’s healthcare benefits—and where the disconnects lie.

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Walk away with actionable strategies to strengthen your benefits approach, close the perception gap, and help employees get more from their healthcare experience.

Newton Cheng went on mental health leave on Jan 18, 2022.  Despite working in the field of health & wellbeing for 20+ years, being a world champion competitive athlete, and having access to world class experts and robust mental health support services, he still burned out. 

In this keynote he will share the story of his journey to burnout and back, and what he’s learned about how we’re hampering innovation by not practicing vulnerable leadership… so many of us leaders get it wrong when we do try to demonstrate vulnerability, and how we can practice it effectively via a skills-based approach.

True leadership requires risk taking and failure. However, our culture tells us to “fake it until we make it” and to “never let them see us sweat”.  What might we be able to achieve if we could actually share our struggles so that we could take better care of ourselves and each other while pursuing our most daring ambitions?