In 1989, Behavioral Health Systems recognized the need to address the full-range of mental health and substance abuse-related services. For more than 30 years, BHS has managed behavioral health through a 50,000-member preferred provider organization (PPO) to employers nationwide. BHS’ advantages include the open network PPO model, ensuring maximum freedom of choice, continuity of care for individuals accessing Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits and needing long-term treatment and the fee-for service approach, which provides maximum cost savings and coverage flexibility. BHS programs include:

Behavioral Health: Solutions for all mental health, substance abuse and EAP needs. Under the “carve-out” program, BHS seamlessly integrated its services for employers and their members. Enhanced programs include Behavioral Comp Management and Rx Management.

EAP & Work-Life: Tailored work-life solutions include BHS’ stand-alone EAP services; Wellness First, a program to support each employer’s unique goals; and robust education/training services. BHS’ well-being programs assist employees in managing personal issues while maintaining focus at work.

Drug Testing: Safety First, BHS’ drug testing division, conducts pre-employment, random, post-accident, reasonable suspicion, and return-to-work drug screening. All claims processing, MRO, billing and management reports are provided through one source. The program can be stand-alone or integrated with BHS.

Consumers @Work provides new hire onboarding assistance and financial wellness opportunities to all employees on your company’s behalf.

We offer simple ways to ensure all employees have easy access to a standard bank account to eliminate the need for a paycard/paper paycheck and to reduce the workload of your payroll staff.

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Corporate Live is an event production company with the capacity to provide complete audio-visual services for events of any size throughout the United States.

Our areas of specialty include audio, video, lighting, live streaming, staging, and rigging services. We have the right people and equipment on hand to produce 50-person corporate meetings, up to full-out productions for 100,000 of your closest friends! When it comes to producing conferences, fundraisers, concerts, trade shows, community, and corporate events, the experience and knowledge of our team is what truly sets us apart.

Corporate Live works with a diverse roster of notable nonprofit, academic, governmental, corporate, and entertainment-related clients. Our travels over the last 25+ years have brought us to virtually every major conference hall, arena, stadium, and large event space in Michigan. If you want a trusted and reliable partner for your organization’s next event, give us a call to discuss how we can help make your show a huge success.

Gallagher Benefit Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (NYSE: AJG), is one of the leading employee benefit brokers and consultants in the U.S. Our full range of benefit services includes strategy, plan design and management, financialplanning, actuarial, data analysis and benchmarking, retirement brokerage and consulting, and human resource services. Gallagher’s trusted experts bring new ideas, innovative tools and world-class compliance capabilities totailor benefit solutions to our clients’ unique business objectives and employee needs. Our custom solutions ensure benefit programs perform better so businesses perform better. To learn more, visitwww.ajg.com

Health Alliance Plan is a Michigan based non-profit health insurance company. A trusted healthcare partner for more than 50 years. We provide health coverage to individuals, companies and organizations. We partner with doctors, employers and community groups to enhance the overall health and well-being of the lives we touch.

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Qualigence International is a talent acquisition and optimization firm dedicated to helping businesses recruit the right people and unlock their best performance. We partner with HR teams across Michigan to help them solve their talent challenges and add greater value.

Below are some of the ways we help HR teams like yours:

• Delivering customized lists of qualified candidates that are interested in your positions
• Slashing recruiting costs with a range of affordable, flexible talent acquisition services
• Driving record engagement and team performance with our optimization platform from the Predictive Index

With our unique hourly business model, we make it easy and affordable to get the assistance you need, when you need it. There's no commissions, no fees, and no BS!

Schedule a consultation with our team today to learn how we can help position your HR team for success.

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For over 25 years, we have been providing sales training, management, and leadership training to individuals and companies resulting in greater levels of personal and professional success.

Gerry Weinberg & Associates strives to provide world class business consulting and training in leadership, management, sales and customer care by challenging the status quo in which limits success for frustrated privately-held and public companies.

Based in Southfield Michigan, we have trained hundreds of business professionals using a blend of personal experience and nationally proven sales training and leadership techniques.

Our broad client base includes individuals, entrepreneurs and companies of all sizes in over 200 different industries and professions.

For nearly 35 years, we have delivered insightful solutions and best-in-class service to family offices, institutional investors and corporate leaders locally and around the country. We believe that institutional consulting means serving as an extension of your leadership team to help make investment decisions that address the challenges you face and help build a strong financial future. Our collaborative approach is unlike most other advisory teams. We combine a highly disciplined process with thought leadership and close communication, defining the Gold Standard for institutional consulting services. Not only do we follow best practices, we create them.

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Amy Cell founded this consulting firm in March 2015 following her role as Senior Vice President, Talent Enhancement for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation. Having recognized that employers need affordable, reliable recruiting and HR services, she chose to dedicate her experience, passion for people, and vast network to help fill that need.

Amy Cell Talent has grown to a team of amazing people that provide customized HR, recruiting, and career coaching services. They have helped hundreds of employers find incredible people and have provided HR support to organizations that want to outsource their payroll and Human Resources services, or need help with short-term people-related projects.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, a nonprofit mutual insurance company, is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. BCBSM provides health benefits to more than 4.7 million members residing in Michigan in addition to employees of Michigan-headquartered companies residing outside the state. The company has been committed to delivering affordable health care products through a broad variety of plans for businesses, individuals and seniors for more than 80 years. Beyond health care coverage, BCBSM supports impactful community initiatives and provides leadership in improving health care. For more information, visit bcbsm.com and MiBluesPerspectives.com

At Brown & Brown, our guiding principles include building our team with the highest quality people and delivering innovative solutions and superior service. If you are a highly complex multinational company, an individual or anything in between, our experienced teams can help you view, analyze and purchase insurance efficiently. You will receive the personalized, dedicated service you deserve while leveraging the exceptional capabilities and peace of mind expected from a top brokerage to help protect what you value most.

Delta Dental of Michigan is a member of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a nationwide system of independently operated dental health service plans. Delta Dental contracts with four out of five U.S. dentists to provide more than 62 million people nationwide with quality, cost-effective programs and services.

As the state’s largest dental benefits carrier, Delta Dental of Michigan offers a full range of individual and group dental plans for 5.1 million people. Through education, philanthropy and advocacy, Delta Dental of Michigan is bringing oral health within reach for Michigan children and adults. As Delta Dental, we do dental…Better.

In 1998, Greenleaf Trust was established as Michigan’s first independent trust-only bank. We are headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan with offices in Traverse City, Bay Harbor, Birmingham, Grand Rapids, Midland, and Delaware. We have specialized disciplines in wealth management, trust administration, and retirement plan administration. Managing and sustaining our clients’ wealth from generation to generation is not a sideline; it’s our sole purpose. In total, we are responsible for over $17 billion of client assets. We provide retirement plan services to over 150 clients, with approximately $1.3 billion in assets and over 20,000 participants. Greenleaf is structured to remain private into perpetuity (we can never be sold or acquired). We are committed to maintaining a culture under which clients experience a highly personalized and professional level of service.

HRPro/BenePro is a provider of Total People Solutions, specializing in HR and Benefit Advisory and administrative services. HRPro/BenePro divides its services into four areas: 1) Full service HR Consulting and ongoing tactical support; 2) Benefit advisory and consulting services; 3) HR administration including HRIS support systems and Payroll; 4) Benefit administration including COBRA, HAS, FSA and billing card enrollment services. We offer first class service and technology. We listen to clients’ needs and then develop personalized strategies to meet them. From dedicated Account Managers, easy to use technology, to compliance expertise, HRPro/BenePro delivers

• Pay your people, accurately and on time (Payroll)
• Manage information on your employees (HRIS)
• Provide access to health care, dental and vision (Benefits)
• Direct programs that attract, reward and retain employees (Human Resources)
• Get rid of administrative headaches so you can spend your time building relationships with your employees!

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How do you know you’ve made the best decision when it comes to your company’s employee benefits offerings?

With continued pressure from healthcare inflation, increasing compliance needs, and tighter budgets (to name a few), Hylant understands the challenges employers face.

No matter your company’s size, our employee benefits experts can help you tailor the program that will work best with your unique business and goals.

At Hylant, we solve important business issues:

• Cost: By keeping you market-competitive without breaking the bank with your employee benefits program.
• Compliance: We keep you up to date on the ever-changing regulatory environment - protecting you from fines and penalties.
• Administrative Complexity: We serve as an extension of your team. We’re at your right hand in wading through the challenges of effectively administering your plan. We act as a liaison to your employee benefits carriers and vendor partners to resolve issues.
• Engagement: “Where the rubber meets the road.” Employee benefits is the second-largest employee expense. We work with you to create benefits value to ensure your employees and families fully recognize the value of the benefits or programs you provide.

OUR MISSION: To strengthen and protect the businesses, employees and communities of our client family by embracing them as our own.

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InvestWise Financial, since 1993, has been hosting free, educational workshops for both companies and the community. Our team of financial advisors strive to educate the public to create a more financially literate community.

Companies hire us to host educational workshops, on a variety of important financial topics, free of charge for both employers and employees. Our goal is simple: help reduce the financial stress among people.

Our relationships with the companies we work with fill an important gap in society - a lack of financial knowledge. We encourage individuals to meet with us after the workshop to receive personal financial recommendations in hopes of building financial confidence among employees.

Let's work together to empower employees so they can make educated financial decisions.

Kestly Development is an authorized Partner with Wiley & Son. In the toolbox are a few of the most recognizable assessments in the industry: PXT Select, Everything DiSC, and The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team.

Use PXT Select employee assessments to help you build, retain, and develop an outstanding workforce. DiSC and the 5B help you develop your teams and give you that competitive edge. Ask to try out 5B - Personal Development.

Did you ever hire someone that didn’t work out? We can help so that you have a much higher degree of confidence when hiring, and get all hiring managers using the same scientific, highly validated, reliable pre-employment program. View the Hire Right Video

Mike Kestly is considered, by many, to be the "Doctor of Assessments" because he finds out what is hurting, and then prescribes an assessment to help fix or reduce the pain.

The key pain relievers are:

• Job Match Assessments like PXT Select
• Safety Assessments like driver and facility safety assessments
• Development assessments and virtual training using Everything DiSC
• Team-Building tool and training like The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team
• And to help find the best candidates he administers an Applicant Tracking System like Applicant Pool with integrated Onboarding Forms, Background Checks, Payroll, and HRIS.

NOTE: All of these are easy and inexpensive to get started.

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Lake Michigan Credit Union, “LMCU”, was originally founded in 1933 as Grand Rapids Teacher’s Credit Union. Over the last 90 years, LMCU has expanded to serve over 520,000 members in 65+ branches across Michigan and Florida. Decades of steady growth, strategic mergers and the addition of several major service lines has transformed LMCU to the largest financial institution headquartered in West Michigan.

As Michigan’s largest credit union and one of the nation’s leading credit unions, we offer award winning products and services to meet our member’s financial needs. We are proud of our past, thrilled with our present and couldn’t be more excited about our future!

Who is the Lighthouse Insurance Group?

• #1 West Michigan employee benefits firm for the last 5 years per Grand Rapids Business Journal
• Largest independently owned insurance agency in Michigan
• Local Michigan agency with over 60 employees specializing in benefits
• Established in 1960

Strengths of working with Lighthouse as your agency:

• Over 50,000 employees covered for benefit plans
• Leading insurance agency in providing benefits, property/casualty & other specialty insurance products – ONE STOP SHOP
• Onsite nurse or medical clinic capabilities
• Relationship with medical captive – provide unique medical solutions
• Proprietary benchmarking data
• Client services can include – member management with carriers, compliance, wellness programs, robust reporting including ACA reporting
• Retiree support - group life retiree buyouts, group retiree medical coverage

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More than 7,500 professionals provide 52,000 clients globally with creative solutions in risk management, insurance and employee benefits consulting. Our entrepreneurial Associates are committed to service and empowered with a single-minded focus on delivering results for clients.

From its 1966 founding in Kansas City, Missouri, Lockton has grown to become the largest privately held insurance broker in the world and 8th largest overall. We’re purposefully unconventional, insatiably curious and Uncommonly Independent.

Lockton opened its first Michigan office in Detroit in 2016, will open a second office in Birmingham July 2020, and an additional office in Grand Rapids next year.

For 11 consecutive years, Business Insurance has recognized Lockton as a "Best Place to Work in Insurance"? in the U.S.

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Marsh McLennan Agency’s (MMA) approach to group benefits and risk management is people-centric. We help organizational and HR leaders maximize the potential of their business by maximizing the potential of their people.

Our multi-discipline team comes to the table prepared with ideas about how to tackle each organization's unique challenges, addressing health & benefits, culture & wellbeing, diversity & inclusion, retirement, and safety needs. We'll share the national and global resources and capabilities of the Marsh & McLennan network - one of the largest insurance brokerages in the world. And they'll follow all the way through, turning insights into action.

We're here to help you build a robust benefits plan. To attract the best talent. To elevate and retain your employees. To turn chaos into growth - and to strengthen your bottom line.

How do we do this? It's in our nature. Our team is incredibly smart and driven. Driven to use their intelligence to make a difference, to do what they do best every day, for an extraordinary organization and to work with colleagues who share their gifts and values. We believe in the possibilities of people.

Notable Numbers:

• MMA’s Michigan team has an incomparable client service ratio of no more than 2.50 clients per employee.
• Our overall client satisfaction rating is 98%
• Our client referral rating is also 98%
• Our 15-year controlled client retention rate is 97%
• Our workplace has been recognized consistently over 14 years by the Detroit Free Press, Crain’s Detroit Business, and the Best & Brightest organization
• Our growing team has offices in Troy, Grand Rapids and Livonia.

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Data-Driven Benefits Strategies and Total Reward Outcomes

As an employee-owned company, we get it: Ensuring the health and well-being of your employees is critical to managing risk and reducing costs. With Employee Benefits as one of your organization’s top expenses, we think your broker should take a proactive approach to deliver what you deserve:

1. A variety of employee benefits plan options.
2. Opportunities for negotiation.
3. Multiple funding possibilities.
4. Cost-saving options that don’t change your plan.
5. Ways to market your plan to employees and educate them and their spouses in a way that doesn’t feel forced.

Beyond our human capital consulting practice and strategic health insurance brokerage solutions, our specialized divisions and services meet our clients’ needs across diverse markets and industries.

Key Service Areas

• Global Benefits
• World-Class Predictive Analytics
• Population Health Management
• Compliance
• Employee Engagement & Education
• Benchmarking
• Employer Support

Oswald is ranked as one of the top benefits brokers in the U.S., built on a foundation of quality service to our clients and relationships with top carriers. Founded over 125 years ago, we’re proud to perpetuate a personalized approach that focuses on how health insurance fits into your big-picture employee benefits and health management offerings.

Ray Law International provides quick and sound solutions to your immigration challenges and needs. At Ray Law International, we have offices located across the country. No matter what office you choose, you will be met with the same care, diligence, and quality of work. Additionally, you will find the signature “Ray Law Advantage” and the knowledge gain over the course of more than two decades of practice. Comprised of the promise of expertise, speed of resolution and consistent communication and follow-up, the Ray Law Advantage will uniquely equip you to find immigration success.

At RecogNation we believe that Every Moment Matters. Whether you're celebrating the first day or the last, shouting great successes from the rooftops, or recognizing the little moments in between. We believe that inspiration flows from appreciation - making each person feel valued, connected, and a part of something bigger than themselves. Because it is in these moments that we unlock the meaning in work, the power of relationships, and the positive energy that accelerates success.

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For nearly 30 years, Troy, Michigan-based Ulliance has been helping companies create a culture of total well-being through comprehensive programs that improve business by enhancing people’s lives.

THE SERVICES WE PROVIDE:

Employee Assistance Program

Well-being Programs

Training & Development

Outplacement Services

Organizational Development

Incident & Crisis Management

Whether employees are struggling with depression, financial or family issues, substance abuse, harassment, or a myriad of other problems, thousands of employees seek support and solutions through Ulliance Life Advisor consultants every year. We can assist your employees as well.

USI is one of the largest insurance brokerage and consulting firms in the world, delivering property and casualty, employee benefits, personal risk, program and retirement solutions to large risk management clients, middle market companies, smaller firms and individuals. Headquartered in Valhalla, New York, USI connects approximately 10,000 industry-leading professionals from nearly 200 offices to serve clients’ local, national and international needs. USI has become a premier insurance brokerage and consulting firm by leveraging the USI ONE Advantage®, an interactive platform that integrates proprietary and innovative client solutions, networked local resources and expertise, and enterprise-wide collaboration to deliver customized results with positive, bottom line impact. USI attracts best-in-class industry talent with a long history of deep and continuing investment in our local communities. For more information, visit usi.com.

USI products and services include:

- Commercial Property & Casualty: including workers’ compensation, property coverage, general liability, auto liability, umbrella/excess, management professional services (MPS), cyber risk, environmental, product liability, international, claims and risk control, and more.
- Employee Benefits: including underwriting and analytics, HR services, population health management, compliance/healthcare reform, healthcare cost management, pharmacy benefit consulting, ancillary benefit consulting.
- Personal Risk: including property, homeowners, farm and ranch, automobile, umbrella, recreational, workers’ compensation for household staff, directors & officers/executive risk, and such specialized products as family office group excess, kidnap and ransom, identity theft and private collections.
- Retirement Consulting: including defined benefit, defined contribution, investment advisory, health and welfare administration, regulatory and compliance, employee communications and church plan solutions.
- Affinity Programs: providing a single source of comprehensive insurance and financial services products, member service and advocacy, persona-based strategic marketing, risk management and financial wellness tools for associations, affinity groups and select industries.

While USI is a full-service brokerage operation, we have developed specialty operations within each region based upon local niche demographics.

For more than 90 years, Wayne State University Law School has produced creative, motivated leaders who have shaped the modern face of society through remarkable contributions to law, business and education.

Our Master of Studies in Law degree is specifically designed to help professionals build their knowledge of law relevant to the HR field. Classes are 100% online so students can learn when it's convenient and apply new skills immediately to their careers.

Established in 1997 by 19 U.S. governors with a mission to expand access to high-quality, affordable higher education, online, nonprofit WGU now serves more than 121,000 students nationwide and has more than 186,000 graduates in all 50 states.

Driving innovation as the nation’s leading competency-based university, WGU has been recognized by the White House, state leaders, employers, and students as a model that works in postsecondary education.

In just 23 years, the university has become a leading influence in the development of innovative workforce-focused approaches to education.

WGU is accredited by the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, has been named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and has been featured on NPR, NBC Nightly News, CNN, and in The New York Times. Learn more at www.wgu.edu.

Our Mission is to assess, enhance and support core business management functions. We are dedicated to providing our clients with the most advanced payroll, time & attendance and human resource software services known today.

• Workforce PayHub is locally owned and operated in Adrian, MI with clients processing in 36 states
• Clients get a dedicated Customer Service Representative (CSR) assigned to them
• Workforce PayHub is more than just a payroll company, we have technology to assist from pre-hire to retire such as applicant tracking, time off management, performance management, payroll, time keeping, benefits administration, background screening, ACA compliance and filing
• Chilah & Eric provide monthly informational 'VLOGs' on LinkedIn and our website
• Workforce PayHub would love to participate in local chapters with sponsorship and exhibit opportunities

Contact Information:

Name: Eric Jones

Phone: 517-759-4026 x 101

Email: ejones@workforcepayhub.com

Web: workforcepayhub.com/