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Alex Burggren serves as VP, consultant relations leader at AccessHope, where he focuses on strengthening relationships with the benefits consultancy community and advancing strategic engagement across the market.

Previously, he held leadership roles at Virta Health and Virgin Pulse (now Personify Health), where he led consultant engagement initiatives supporting employer health innovation. He began his career in health benefits consulting at Mercer and WTW.

Alex holds an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Science in Physiology from the University of California, Davis.

Benefit reductions meant to cut costs and even free up funds for AI may be undermining retention, as workers scale back savings and question their employers' priorities.

Kimberly Lanham is senior vice president at Mphasis Digital Risk

Mukarram Mawjood is founder and chief investment officer of Bullionite Asset Group, where he helps clients build retirement wealth through self-directed IRAs and alternative assets like real estate, precious metals and crypto.

Corbb O'Connor is the director of accessibility advocacy at Level Access.

Mary Lundstedt, Esq., is a founding partner at Hall Lundstedt LLC, tax attorneys with an emphasis on tax mitigation in the areas of tax controversy, resolution and advisory.

Wayne Watkinson is a senior attorney with Offit Kurman, specializing in mortgage licensing and compliance

The real breakthrough will come when we stop treating mental health as a standalone benefit and start treating it as an essential part of how we care for people.