Optimizing Benefits Management: A Year-Round Strategy for Employers

Cost

Free

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When

March 11, 2025

@ 2:00 p.m. ET

Where

Online

Panel Discussion
Mar
11

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Optimizing Benefits Management: A Year-Round Strategy for Employers

Join us for an insightful panel discussion designed to help employers navigate and optimize the annual benefits lifecycle with ease. We’ll explore key actions to maintain focus throughout the year, from post-enrollment debriefs to pre-renewal planning. Discover effective strategies to enhance participant engagement amid today’s communication overload, and learn best practices to reduce frustration, ensuring employees maximize their benefits with confidence. Don’t miss this opportunity to refine your benefits approach and drive better outcomes for your workforce!

Participants will learn:

  • Calendarized actions employers should be doing to ensure they stay on top of the program throughout the year. 
  • New ways of educating and communicating with participants to improve engagement.
  • How to reduce confusion and frustration with participants’ utilization of their benefits.
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
2:00 p.m. – 2:40 p.m. ET

Online

SHRM
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This program is valid for PDC(s) for the SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®.

Corporate Synergies is a recognized provider of recertification credits. HR Certification Institute® pre-approved this activity for HR (General) recertification credit hour(s) toward aPHR™, aPHRi™, PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi™ and SPHRi™ recertification.

Presented by:
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Eileen Scoggins
Director of BenefitsVIP®
Corporate Synergies

As Director of BenefitsVIP, Corporate Synergies’ high-touch, first-to-call employee advocacy and service department, Eileen instills a consistent focus on urgent and accurate benefits issue resolution. She manages BenefitsVIP staff, analyzes call/contact types to identify emerging trends or issues, and employs methods to resolve them. BenefitsVIP works in tandem with Account Management to deliver optimal benefits services to the client’s employees and HR staff. BenefitsVIP also reduces HR staff administrative burdens related to health and welfare benefits and serves as a central “listening post” in the gathering of program data used to develop annual and long-term benefits strategies.
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Gary Cassidy
Director of Wellness and Employee Education & Communications
Corporate Synergies

Gary Cassidy and the Corporate Synergies’ internal creative team generate professional, branded programs that support clients, and engage, and educate their employees. As Director of Employee Education, Communication and Wellness, he draws upon his 25 years of extensive insurance industry and employee benefits experience and design and communications background, to deliver targeted communication campaigns and wellness programs in support of client goals. These award-winning programs (APEX, iCOMM and carrier) engender heightened literacy for employees, enabling them to properly enroll in, understand and use their benefits. He works closely with Corporate Synergies’ account management teams to develop and implement strategies designed to drive positive changes in workforce behavior and help clients control benefit costs.
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Brian Reuter
Senior Account Manager
Corporate Synergies

Brian Reuter’s 20 years as a seasoned benefits consultant offers clients insightful, customized program strategy. Brian is a trusted advisor on funding alternatives, wellness programs, employee education, compliance and other areas of employee benefits. This trust fuels Brian’s partnerships with employers. He works to identify their specific benefit goals and financial objectives and develop solutions. He then coordinates the necessary resources to ensure execution. Brian has particular expertise in guiding employers through the unique challenges of benefits analysis and onboarding during mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Corporate Synergies, Brian managed enterprise clients for 10 years at a large national employee benefits firm. Brian is a graduate of the University of Delaware and currently maintains Life/Health, and Property/Casualty Licenses. In 2014 he summitted Mount Kilimanjaro with the Military Assistance Project.

Moderated by:

Brian Feeley, Executive Vice President

Corporate Synergies is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP®. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit www.shrmcertification.org.

HR Certification Institute’s® (www.HRCI.org) official seal confirms that Corporate Synergies meets the criteria for pre-approved recertification credit(s) for any of HRCI’s eight credentials, including SPHR® and PHR®.

Event Registration

Optimizing Benefits Management: A Year-Round Strategy for Employers

Tuesday, March 11, 2025
2:00
p.m.

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2:40
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