Ben Miller, PsyD, the Chief Strategy Officer at Well Being Trust, gives his take on the state of mental healthcare in the workplace. We talk delivery and payment reform, the “skimpy” options permeating the commercial market, and how to apply the concept of social determinants of health to the work setting.

We had the opportunity to chat with Leo Bernstein and Kevin Rabinowitz, executives from LineSlip Solutions. LineSlip is a cloud-hosted software platform purpose-built for the insurance industry that helps commercial brokers streamline critical broking tasks, including quote comparison and placement process. LineSlip is currently focused on streamlining panel business, but its custom approach is built to automate “existing workflows,” not just limited to panels.

Q&A with Scott Robertson, Managing Partner, KPISoft

The Council Foundation’s 2018 Dave Oberkircher Future Leaders Scholar, Samantha Dever, shares her internship experience at the Marsh & McLennan Agency and what the scholarship meant to her at The Council’s 2019 Employee Benefits Leadership Forum.

Nick Bellanca, Executive VP, Sales & Business Development

Justin Oliver, Senior Director, Business Development for Employee Benefits, CyberScout Ann Barron-DiCamillo, Vice President of Cyber Threat Intelligence and Incident Response at American Express

Broker Buddha CEO Jason Keck discusses technology as a tool for solving administrative burdens for brokers and their clients.

Sandy Laycox, editor-in-chief of Leader’s Edge magazine, sat down with John Swigart of Pie Insurance and Jayant Lakshmikanthan of Clara Analytics to discuss their respective business models and their plans for the future. Pie Insurance is a small-business focused full-stack Managing General Agent (MGA) that has used digital advances to streamline the quote-bind process in an effort to confront the issues small businesses typically have in securing coverage. Clara Analytics also operates in the Workers’ Compensation space and uses AI and machine learning to attack inefficiencies and reduce operational claims costs for commercial Workers’ Compensation.

Q&A with Patrick Costello from Evolve MGA by A Council Platform

Keith VanderZanden of Advanced Professionals Insurance and Benefits Solutions sits down with The Council’s Katie Oberkircher to talk AHPs.