Communicating Total Rewards

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM ET

Opening Remarks – Center Leaders Set the Stage

Ivan Pollard, Center Leader, Marketing & Communications, The Conference Board

Lisa Hunter, Senior Fellow and Program Director, The Conference Board

Diana Scott, US Human Capital Center Leader, The Conference Board

11:25 AM - 12:10 PM ET

Predicting Employee Communication Needs in 2024

As employers, we’ve seen a lot and felt a lot over the last years. Everyone, including our employees, is looking for a minute to breathe, but we’re not so sure we’ll be there yet in 2024. In this session, our presenters will share predictions on how we can best support employee needs during a year where outside influences are expected to take up a lot of emotional and social energy. Get ready to make 2024 the year of “meeting people where they’re at”.

Manny Murias, VP Total Rewards, Lennar Corporation

Laurie Korinek, Co-Founder, Strategist and Creative Director, PartnerComm

Matthew Korinek, CAO, PartnerComm

Deborah Macchia, VP Health & Welfare, Omnicom Group

12:15 PM - 12:55 PM ET

A Road Map to Change: AECOM’s Journey to Greater Engagement

Effectively communicating about benefits and rewards starts with engaging your employees. By embracing change and thinking outside the box, you can find new and creative ways to address your employees’ expectations and create a positive work environment. In this session, our speakers will share AECOM’s approach to enhancing resources and improving communications to deliver meaningful messages that exceed goals.

Bernie Knobbe, SVP, Global Benefits & Well-being, AECOM

01:00 PM - 01:40 PM ET

Managing the Message: Communicating Across “Audiences”

Research demonstrates people at every point in their “employee life cycle” make choices that impact their career path, choice of employer, wellbeing, and engagement. There are many different challenges and approaches to effectively communicate about benefits/rewards and embrace changing workforce expectations. Our panelists will share approaches to developing coordinated communications using key milestones from on-boarding to exit to illustrate. They will highlight different approaches to communicating about compensation and benefits, address the importance of applying fundamental techniques with finesse and discuss a range of situations and techniques that worked (or didn’t) for them.

Lee Miller, Senior Fellow, Human Capital, The Conference Board

Justin Fossbender, VP, Total Rewards & People Operations, Blueprint Medicines

Christina Brenner, SVP Total Rewards, Dynatrace

Arun Bedi, Senior Fellow, Human Capital, The Conference Board

02:00 PM - 02:40 PM ET

Navigating the Communication Maze: Strategies to Help Guide the Journey

Companies are faced with a unique communications challenge. Employees require increasingly personalized messaging to recognize what is relevant to them, as the number of powerful employee rewards offerings continues to grow. How can employers balance streamlined and scalable versus personalized and impactful? In this session leaders from Workday and Northstar use financial wellness programs to illustrate how, as employers, they can assist employees in optimizing their total rewards while ensuring personalization and equitability across employee groups. They will address how to take into consideration global workforces, under-represented employee populations, roles with different income levels, and more.

Will Peng, CEO & Co-Founder, Northstar

Britt Barney, Head of Client Success, Northstar

Ben Carter, SVP Organization Success & Total Rewards, Workday

02:45 PM - 03:25 PM ET

Breakout Sessions: Hot Topics in Total Rewards Communication Sharing What We Have Learned

Facilitated discussions on key issues in Total Rewards Communications. Attendees are encouraged to share examples. Following the breakouts, leaders will share highlights and insights from the groups.

Ron Miller, Senior Fellow, Human Capital, The Conference Board

Lee Miller, Senior Fellow, Human Capital, The Conference Board

Allan Schweyer, Principal Researcher, Human Capital, The Conference Board

Elle Meza, Vice President, Total Rewards & People Operations, Crunchyroll

Justin Sun, Sr Manager, Global Rewards, Expedia Group

Rita Meyerson, EdD, Principal Researcher, Human Capital, The Conference Board

Samira Lowman, (former) Chief People Officer, Babylon Health

Arun Bedi, Senior Fellow, Human Capital, The Conference Board

03:30 PM - 04:10 PM ET

Varied Voices: Customizing Programs and Communications for a More Inclusive Employee Experience

Customization can create a competitive advantage, improve engagement, and provide managers and employees with access to a range of solutions to help address unique challenges. This panel demonstrates the power of working with a broader range of input to customize programs and communications, increase participation and improve understanding

Janet Rizzuto, Head of Americas, DEI, Warner Music Group

Lisa Singh, Head of Global Benefits, Datavant

04:10 PM - 04:15 PM ET

Day 1 Recap and Preview of Day 2

Lisa Hunter, Senior Fellow and Program Director, The Conference Board