Today’s episode features host Kerry Sette, head of Consumer Insights and Research at Voya — a familiar voice to the podcast. With the health benefits open enrollment period ending for companies, this episode is shifting the focus to talk about one benefit that employers are increasingly offering as an option with high-deductible health plans to their employees: Health Savings Accounts (HSA’s). With lots of research conducted by Voya on HSAs, Kerry is joined by Matt Farrar, AVP of Strategic So...
Today’s episode features host Nate Black, vice president, Health Solutions Product Development. With open enrollment in full swing, the conversation continues with Ana Perez, Chief Marketing Officer at Benefitfocus. Recent discussions have focused on the important role education plays when it comes to helping workers with their annual enrollment decisions. Today, Ana and Nate discuss how personalization and guidance can also play critical roles in helping employees not just enroll in their wo...
Today’s episode features host Nate Black, vice president, Health Solutions Product Development. With benefits elections coming up, we know that a big part of helping the workforce engage and take the time to enroll in their benefits is to provide the right education. With that as a backdrop, Nate is joined by Mona Zielke, SVP of Workplace Solutions Employee Operations and Claims at Voya, to talk more about how voluntary benefits, including supplemental health insurance, can be used. When a co...
Today’s episode takes us back to where we first began with the podcast featuring guest host Heather Lavallee, CEO of Voya Financial, for a very special episode celebrating National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). NDEAM celebrates the contributions of America’s workers with disabilities past and present showcasing supportive, inclusive employment policies and practices that benefit both employers and employees. To help shed some light on this topic Heather is joined by Kendra Da...
Today’s episode features guest host Allison Dirksen, head of Wealth Solutions Sales at Voya. Joining Allison is a repeat guest Jeanne Sutton, to talk about the important topic of student loan debt support. Jeanne is best known in the industry as the “401(k) lady,” but also serves as a financial benefits advisor at Strategic Retirement Partners. The impact of student loan debt on Americans today is impossible to ignore, particularly for employers when it comes to the broad scope of workplace b...
Today’s episode features host, Nate Black, VP, Health Solutions Product Development. As we’re entering the fall, now is an exciting time to talk about open enrollment and to do this, in this episode we are focused on some new trends and areas where many employers are focused. Joining Nate is a guest who will sound very familiar to you all and that is Voya’s own Kerry Sette, head of Consumer Insights and Research at Voya. Tune in to hear all that Kerry has to share with new data. CN3065...
Today’s episode features guest host Allison Dirksen, head of Wealth Solutions Sales at Voya. Allison is joined bynot one, but two repeat guests: Tom Armstrong, vice president, Customer Analytics and Insight, head of Voya’s Behavioral Finance Institute for Innovation at Voya and Nick Maynard, senior vice president at Commonwealth, a national nonprofit focused on building financial security and opportunity for financially vulnerable people through innovation and partnerships to change systems. ...
Today’s episode features guest host Brannigan Thompson, who leads Human Resources for Voya’s Workplace Solutions businesses. In this episode Brannigan discusses something that many leaders are experiencing and even more so as companies continue to operate in a remote setting: how we communicate and lead teams effectively. Brannigan is joined by Alan Nelson, partner at CRA, a leadership consulting and advisory firm. Through his work Alan specializes in the unique communication challenges facin...
Today’s episode features guest host Allison Dirksen, head of sales for Voya’s Wealth Solutions business. Allison is joined for a popular topic for the podcast and that is a market update featuring Voya’s own Barbara Reinhard, senior portfolio manager and head of Asset Allocation at Voya’s asset management business. Barbara shares perspectives on the current market environment and how that is shaping the decisions her team makes on a daily basis. Allison Dirksen is a Registered Representat...
Today’s episode features guest host, Kerry Sette, head of Consumer Insights and Research at Voya. To better understand the challenges facing Generation Z and their impact on employers and the workplace, Kerry is joined by Eric Wagatha, head of Consumer Life at GfK North America, part of the GfK Group and one of the largest market research companies in the world. GfK Consumer Life is the most comprehensive and longest-standing consumer trend study in the world. Together, Kerry and Eric discuss...
In today’s digital world, finding the balance between personalization and consumer privacy is top of mind and an important part of the discussion and experiences we create. So, in this episode, Bill is joined by Voya’s Chief Information Security Officer Stacy Hughes, to talk more about this balance and to help employers find the right balance for their own experiences. Bill Harmon is a registered representative of Voya Financial Partners, LLC (member SIPC). CN2812048_0325
In this episode we have not one, but two CEOs who join the podcast to talk about a topic that’s very important to both of them: mental health in the workplace. Joining for the discussion is Voya’s own CEO, Heather Lavallee and Christina Mainelli, CEO at Quartet Health. At Quartet Health, Christina and her team are on a mission to improve the lives of people with mental health conditions with technology and services that reach people who need care to connect them to the right care, track the q...
In this episode, we’re focused on the discussion of helping to close benefits and savings gaps to improve financial outcomes for a diverse workforce. Sharing some pioneering research conducted at Voya, with the support of our clients, to get some valuable insights and opportunities for employers to consider in their own practice. To engage in the discussion, Bill is joined by Tom Armstrong, VP, customer insight and analytics and head of the Behavioral Finance Institute – and Carole Mendoza, V...
In this episode Bill is joined by Malika Terry, who leads Total Rewards at UPS. During this live event that was hosted at our Chandler office in front of a room full of Voya employees – Malika and Bill discuss the unique emergency savings program that she and her team have built for their nearly 100,000 non-union employees. Bill Harmon is a registered representative of Voya Financial Partners, LLC (member SIPC). Neither Malika Terry nor UPS are affiliated with the Voya® fa...
In this episode, Bill is joined by Voya’s very own Christine Hurtsellers, CEO of Voya Investment Management to discuss gender parity — both within the context of corporate America and traditionally male dominated industries like financial services. Beyond the state of the industry, as the now leader of Voya’s asset management business, in today’s episode Christine shares more about her experience coming up in the finance industry and further shares what inclusion looked like in the early days...
In this episode, Bill is joined by Shawn O’Brien, associate director, Retirement at Cerulli, a research and consulting firm specializing in asset management and distribution trends worldwide. Leading the U.S. Retirement research practice, which focuses on the defined contribution and individual retirement account markets, Shawn also leads and supports strategic consulting projects for asset managers on their DC-related market entry and product distribution strategies. With that, we thought we...
While in the new year, we thought we’d revisit a topic we’ve touched on before on the pod, but one that continues to be important to employers today and that is “the future of work.” More specifically, today we’re focused on how we work within a hybrid experience. So, in this episode Bill is joined by Phil Kirschner, a Senior Expert from McKinsey. Holding both practitioner and consulting experience in workplace strategy, change management and the future of work from his time at WeWork, JLL, a...
We’re excited to be back after the holidays and starting off 2023 with a “three-peat” guest to talk about the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022. Joining Bill today is Mike Hadley of Davis Harman, to discuss the details of the final bill that will be most impactful when it comes to expanding participant coverage and increasing savings for individuals today. Tune in to hear more about what the bill entails and what employers need to be thinking about today as it pertains to the rollout. Bill Harmon ...
In this episode Bill is joined by a repeat guest back by popular demand, Paul Zemsky, chief investment officer, Multi-Asset Strategies and Solutions at Voya Investment Management. With talks of inflation, recessions and markets looming, Paul joins today to give us the latest and greatest on the market and what to expect in the year ahead. Paul shares his perspective on what’s happening in the markets today as well as the long-term implications for retirement savers. Bill Harmon is a re...
In this episode Bill is joined by Kandi Pickard, President, and CEO of the National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS), the leading human rights organization for all individuals with Down syndrome. While the topic of disability inclusion has been discussed before on the podcast, this episode is centered on the labor market and more specifically a focus on the disability community, an important yet greatly underutilized resource in addressing the increased demand for talent many employers face today...