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.
Contact Information:
Name: Scott Dobson
Email: scott.dobson@consumerscu.org
Web: www.consumerscu.org
CredentialCheck is a business partner focused on compliance through our robust suite of pre-employment background screening and drug testing services. We value integrity and quality as strong pillars of our organization and assist clients globally with hiring and retaining the best talent through services designed to identify the same core values in applicants. We are a Consumer Reporting Agency that is accredited through the National Association of Professional Background Screeners and have reliably served our clients and their applicants with our 100% US-based team since 1984.
Contact Information:
Name: Ryan Cowsert
Phone: (248) 526-5213
James is a business attorney who counsels business owners, serial entrepreneurs, C-suite executives, in-house counsel, and human resources directors to make strategic business decisions, from hiring to firing while complying with the ever changing and overlapping laws (including the ADEA, FLSA, FMLA, NLRA, and Title VII). He brings a business and proactive approach to legal matters to help employers make strategic business decisions to minimize the potential for litigation and business disruption. When litigation becomes necessary, he enforces restrictive covenants and defends employers against charges filed with the EEOC, state, and federal agencies. James regularly conducts audits and investigations into employers’ wage and hour practices and claims of discrimination and harassment. He provides training and prepares employment documents (including employee handbooks, employment agreements, and separation agreements) to cover all aspects during the life cycle of an employee. James is also a renowned keynote and national speaker at conferences and events including the American Payroll Association, SHRM, and HR Day.
Contact Information:
Name: James M. Reid, IV
Phone: (248) 203-1646
Email: james.reid@dinsmore.com
Web: www.dinsmore.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.
Contact Information:
Name: Christine Larkins
Email: clarkins@hap.org
Web: www.hap.org
HealthBridge is reimagining the way the healthcare ecosystem addresses the growing financial burden of patients’ copayments, coinsurance and deductibles for the millions of Americans enrolled in an employer sponsored health plan. HealthBridge brings a unique solution to one of America's fastest growing problems --- healthcare affordability --- and creates a first-of-its-kind employee benefit plan that acts as a financial security net for employees and their covered dependents experiencing medical out-of-pocket expenses.
Contact Information:
Name: Dana Nicholson
At Keyser Insurance Group, protecting people is our passion. Headquartered in Kalamazoo, we are a group of agencies providing benefits, HR consulting, insurance and surety services to individuals, corporations and organizations throughout Michigan and Florida. Our experienced Employee Benefits team helps HR professionals from companies of all sizes develop strategies that are effective for employers and employees. Keyser offers HR consulting services in a variety of areas including, but not limited to, employee handbook and policy development, surveys, compensation benchmarking, HR audits, compliance updates, hiring and termination protocols and procedures, employment contracts, leaves of absence, and wage issues.
At our core, we are people who:
Contact Information:
Name: Cassie Goodband
Phone: 269.381.3570, ext. 486
Email: cgoodband@keyseragency.com
Web: www.keyseragency.com
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:
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.
Contact Information:
Name: Steve Lowisz
Phone: 734-432-6300 EXT 201
Email: slowisz@qualigence.com
Web: www.qualigence.com
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.
Trion relieves the stress and burden of managing HR administration alone – payroll and taxes, benefits administration, workers’ compensation and regulatory compliance. Trion acts as an extension of client HR departments by managing time-consuming HR duties, so they can remain focused on more strategic HR issues, such as recruiting, hiring, training – along with setting, monitoring and enforcing workplace policies. Its size provides client employees access to better benefits and HR services available usually to only large corporations – all while taking employer risk and regulatory strain off client’ backs. In short, Trion helps clients attract and retain top talent, mitigate risk and stabilize costs.
Contact Information:
Name: Dan Russell
Phone: (248) 498-8130
Email: drussell@trionworks.com
Web: www.relyontrion.com
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.
Contact Information:
Name: Tony Robinson
Phone: (248) 489-2045
Email: trobinson@deltadentalmi.com
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
Contact Information:
Name: Kelly Bacalja
Phone: 248-502-1107
Email: kelly_bacalja@ajg.com
Web: www.ajg.com
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
Contact Information:
Name: Rebecca Dioso
Phone: (248) 556-7974
Email: rdioso@hrpro.com
Web: www.hrpro.com
Kestly Development, LLC is an authorized Partner with Wiley & Son. In the toolbox are a few of the most recognizable assessments in the industry: PXT Select, ATS, Everything DiSC, and The Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team. PXT Select validated employee assessments to help you build and develop an outstanding workforce, while DiSC and the 5B help you develop that competitive edge.
Did you ever hire someone that didn’t work out? We can help you so that you have a much higher degree of confidence when hiring, and get all hiring managers using the same scientific, highly validated, reliable program. Video: https://youtu.be/hW8fpw1Ggu4
Contact Information:
Name: Mike Kestly
Phone: (734) 483-6453
Who is the Lighthouse Insurance Group?
Strengths of working with Lighthouse as your agency:
Contact Information:
Name: Stacey O’Keefe
Phone: 616-281-6615
Email: shamus@lighthousegroup.net
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.
Contact Information:
Name: John PriceMarsh & 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.
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Contact Information:
Name: Denise Christy
Email: dchristy@mma-mi.com
Web: www.mma-mi.com
twitter.com/MMA_MichiganFounded in 1962, Michigan Planners has created and upheld a market reputation for delivering consistent service with a family-owned spirt and problem-solving mentality. With three locations in Washington, Ml, Traverse City, and East Lansing, the firm employs nearly 40 employees and services nearly 300 organizations. Our service extends to the organization's administrative team, the employees, and their family members. BIG ENOUGH TO CARE, SMALL ENOUGH TO SERVE ™ .
Contact Information:
Name: Laura Van Houtte
Email: Lvanhoutte@miplanners.com
Web: www.miplanners.com
Our flexible, all-in-one solution is tailored to help you tackle your unique HR and payroll challenges today so you can focus on tomorrow. Together, with our legendary support, we can get you to the promise of tomorrow.
Whether you have a dozen employees in a corner shop or thousands in every corner of the country, we're constantly evolving our top-rated HR and payroll solutions to meet your needs, today and far into the future.
Priority Health is an award-winning, Michigan-based non-profit health plan nationally recognized for improving the health and lives of the people it serves. It continues to lead the industry in engaging members in their health, delivering effective health and disease management programs and working with physicians to improve health care outcomes and performance. Priority Health is one of only 20 health plans nationwide offering wellness programs accredited by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, an organization which also rated it among the best health plans in the nation. The State of Michigan named the Priority Health HMO the benchmark plan for all individual and group HMO plans to model.
Watch our Employer Solutions video to learn more.
Contact Information:
Employer Services: 800.471.2504
Strategic Services Group (SSG) is an insurance consulting and brokerage firm specializing in providing employee benefits to clients across various market sectors and group sizes. We are dedicated to delivering modern brokerage service offerings, analyzing your benefit needs, prioritizing your goals, and providing you with technology and resources that streamline costs and improve the overall performance of your benefits package.
We take a consultative approach in helping our clients solve their toughest employee benefits and HR challenges, and are committed to streamlining the HR role with proven strategic solutions and delivering the most cost-effective benefit packages. Our goal is to ensure everyone – hr, leadership and team members – is always informed and educated about their benefit offerings.
As a team of accomplished industry specialists, we provide unbiased guidance, an unmatched level of service, expertise and support; and, most importantly – we are completely transparent in everything we do. No exceptions.
Contact Information:
Name: Noel Parsons
Email: noel@ssgmi.com
Web: www.ssgmi.com
The Economic Alliance for Michigan (EAM) is comprised of businesses and unions working together with one clear objective - continued growth of Michigan's economy by creating an atmosphere that inspires job growth and maintains Michigan's competitiveness for attracting new companies and talent. We rally behind policy and issues that pertain to both our business and labor members including: Economic development; Healthcare/health insurance cost, quality, and access; Workers' compensation; Unemployment insurance; Infrastructure; and, Workforce development.
Contact Information:
Name: Mike Grudzinski
Director of Membership and Development
Phone: 248-808-1570
Email: mike@eamonline.org
Web: www.eamonline.org
USI has served over 150,000 clients meeting their property & casualty, employee benefit, personal risk and retirement needs nationwide. We have more than 100 years of consulting and brokerage experience through our acquired agencies, with local offices dating back in their communities as far as the late 1800s. USI combines industry leading national capabilities delivered through longstanding, passionate and committed local service teams. USI stands for Understand, Service and Innovate. At USI we work to Understand the specific needs of our clients, to provide an unparalleled local Service experience, and to Innovate with cutting edge solutions so our clients can continue to invest and grow.
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.
Contact Information:
Name: Eric Jones
Phone: 517-759-4026 x 101
Email: ejones@workforcepayhub.com
Web: workforcepayhub.com/
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