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To help employers contain costs, these advisers are revamping their healthcare supply chain.

Stephanie Li is a researcher at Forrester Research serving B2C marketing professionals. Her research topics include customer trust and privacy, marketing database operations, and corporate values. She is interested in how customers’ growing privacy concerns are changing marketers’ behaviors and how the nature of marketing is changing amid global regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulation. She is also tracking the convergence of marketing technology and advertising technology.

Previous Work Experience

Steph was previously a senior research associate on the B2C marketing team. She supported the team’s research on privacy, customer insights service providers, marketing measurement, TV and online video, corporate values, email marketing, and social marketing.

Before joining Forrester, Steph was an account executive at the public relations agency Text100. She supported B2B technology clients with their media and analyst relations programs and created contributed articles, press releases, blog posts, and other digital content.

Education

Steph graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in international affairs from Northeastern University.

The policy update is part of a broader change to the firm’s family-friendly benefits, which now include updated parental and caregiving leave, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursements.

Education and a refined benefits package offering could provide a boost to worker engagement.

Ashwin Ram is an IT service management evangelist at ManageEngine, a division of Zoho Corp. He writes blogs, customer stories, and easy tips and tricks for the users of ServiceDesk Plus, the company’s IT help desk software. He has also authored the article, “The impact of machine learning on ITSM”.

Employee Benefit News, in partnership with business intelligence data analytics firm miEdge, lists the top 25 large-group health insurance carriers in the United States.

Sara Dutta is life sciences industry business experience consultant at Dassault Systèmes.

James Parks is a director in the international tax practice at Atlanta-based Top 100 Firm Bennett Thrasher LLP, and has more than 10 years of public and industry experience working with clients in a wide variety of industries, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to midsized, privately held companies.

James Pickett is a director in the tax controversy practice at Atlanta-based Top 100 Firm Bennett Thrasher LLP, and is a 29-year veteran of the IRS.

Employers need to know that it’s critical to help workers master basic money principles to make smarter spending decisions.