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Steve Pinado is the president of Billtrust and is responsible for leading the company's sales, marketing, business development and customer success departments. He has more than 20 years of experience as an executive in corporate strategy, business development, mergers and acquisitions, finance and organizational development.

Musk plans to eliminate half of Twitter's workforce to slash costs at the social media platform he acquired for $44 billion last month.

Joe Alim is the VP of Product and Operations at Compt, the number one employee stipends platform that gives people the freedom to choose the lifestyle perks they really want.  He is currently focused on ensuring the HR tech startup offers an amazing customer and product experience so that providing and utilizing perks is fun, easy, and gratifying for companies of all sizes and stages. Prior to his current role, Alim co-founded the talent-tech startup, ScholarJet, which he also led as COO. His commitment to building a better future of work begins with improving the employee experience through personalization. He's excited to share his knowledge on scaling benefits and designing successful stipend programs.

Ellen Kelsay, president and CEO of Business Group on Health, reveals what employers can expect from healthcare costs in 2023.

With more than 30 years of experience championing causes that inspire social change through sports, entertainment, and pop culture, Lou Raiola is the industry's go-to resource when it comes to uniting stakeholder groups in collective efforts to drive positive social impact. He is also a leading advocate for the adoption of ESG within all types of organizations and is a leading expert on ESG strategy for supply chain stakeholders often speaking on the topic he describes as "The ESG Ripple Effect".

Nicole Stelter, Ph.D., is the director of Behavioral Health at Blue Shield of California, a nonprofit health plan with more than $22 billion in annual revenue serving 4.7 million members in the state's commercial, individual, and government markets.

Stelter plays a key role in implementing Blue Shield's Behavioral Health Reimagined strategy. She is also responsible for providing behavioral health and market/provider expertise across Blue Shield of California's behavioral health initiatives, with a focus on commercial lines of business. 

Stelter has more than 30 years of behavioral health experience, most recently serving as Kaiser Permanente's director of National Strategic Customer Engagement, Specialty Consulting for Mental Health, and Health Equity. In this role, she led the company's total workforce health portfolio, including providing internal and external consultation and product development for mental health, occupational health, wellness, Employee Assistance Programs (EAP), and disability management services.

Stelter holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology and a master's degree in Counseling Psychology from California State University-Dominguez Hills and she earned a PhD degree from Capella University in Minneapolis.

Stelter is a licensed marriage and family therapist, a clinical trauma professional, and holds certifications in community/organizational disaster mental health. Her clinical focus has been with the first-responder community (police and fire), and she served as a behavioral health officer in the California Army National Guard (State Guard/Reserves) from 2010 to 2015.

Political conversations don't need to be off limits at work. The SVP of 15Five shares his top tips for navigating challenging discussions.

The Alphabet Workers Union claimed that Alphabet and two of its staffing vendors violated federal labor law, which protects employees' right to discuss their working conditions and organize.

Avivit Ben-Aharon, founder and clinical director of Great Speech, explains how speech therapy can help patients manage their long COVID symptoms.