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Raising the Bar in Benefits and Leadership: Highlights from the Accelerent Breakfast

This morning at the Accelerent Breakfast, Benefit Commerce Group was proud to be represented by Stacy Ketcham, VP and Senior Client Executive, shared highlights from our 12th Annual Employee Benefits Benchmarking & HR Symposium. The event’s keynote, Dan Clark, Hall of Fame speaker, bestselling author, and global expert on leadership, delivered an unforgettable message, all without a single slide.

June 13, 2025

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Employee Benefits

Our 2025 AZ Benefits & HR Symposium: Our Biggest and Best Yet!

The 12th Annual Arizona Employee Benefits Benchmarking, Healthcare & HR Symposium, held on June 6, 2025, was our most impactful event to date. Nearly 500 HR professionals, CFOs, and business leaders gathered at the Arizona Biltmore to explore powerful insights from our statewide benchmarking survey and to discuss timely strategies for managing benefits, costs, and workforce needs.

June 9, 2025

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Employee Benefits

Accelerent Breakfast: Dale Jarrett’s Path to NASCAR Greatness

At this morning’s Accelerent / Benefit Commerce Group Breakfast at Phoenix International Raceway, over 400 attendees had the privilege of hearing NASCAR legend Dale Jarrett share his powerful journey—one he humbly referred to as a “22-Year Overnight Success Story.”

April 11, 2025

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Employee Benefits

Accelerent Breakfast: An Extraordinary Story of Leadership and Duty

On January 31, the Phoenix division of Accelerent hosted an unforgettable breakfast event that brought together local business leaders for a morning of insight, inspiration, and reflection. Benefit Commerce Group, as the proud Title Sponsor of the Phoenix division, was thrilled to support this impactful gathering that featured Colonel Mark Tillman, the former pilot of Air Force One, as the keynote speaker.

February 4, 2025

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Accelerent Breakfast: Strategies to Instill Integrity and Mitigate Crisis – Commander Kirk Lippold, USN (Ret.)

This morning's Accelerent breakfast featuring Commander Kirk Lippold. As the commanding officer of the USS Cole during the 2000 terrorist attack in Yemen, Commander Lippold shared powerful leadership strategies drawn from his experience leading his crew through a crisis.

November 22, 2024

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Employee Benefits

Accelerent Breakfast: Turning hardships into victories – Noelle Pikus Pace

Following the amazing Summer Olympics just a couple of months ago, it was excellent timing to have an Olympian speaker at this morning’s Accelerent/BCG Breakfast Event, held at Warehouse215.

September 27, 2024

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Employee Benefits

Employee Weight Loss Strategies & GLP-1 Medications: Navigating the New Era

As a corporate wellness professional with over 15 years of experience, I’ve witnessed firsthand the growing emphasis on weight loss within both individual and corporate settings. Despite best efforts, the obesity rate in the U.S. continues to climb. Currently, 42% of Americans have a BMI of 30 or higher, and the economic impact of obesity exceeds $1.4 trillion annually, according to a recent Milken Institute report.

August 29, 2024

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Employee Benefits

Accelerent Breakfast: Go ‘All In’ on What’s Important to You – Gian Paul Gonzalez

Gian Paul Gonzalez is widely recognized for inspiring the New York Giants to their most recent Super Bowl victory with the phrase “All In.” He brought that concept to life at this morning’s Accelerent/BCG Breakfast Event, held at Ability360.

June 14, 2024

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Employee Benefits

Our 2024 AZ Benefits & HR Symposium—A Big Success!

Our 11th Annual AZ Benefits Benchmarking, Healthcare & HR Symposium on June 6th was a great opportunity for employers to review the benchmarking data and new trends and strategies for employee benefits. They also heard from our keynote speaker about mastering the hybrid work environment by adopting new methods of communication and connection.

June 6, 2024

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Employee Benefits

Benchmarking: How Do Your Organization’s Employee Benefits Offerings Stack Up?

For the sixth consecutive year, Alera Group is offering a valuable piece of market intelligence: our Healthcare and Employee Benefits Benchmarking Report. We’ll introduce the 2025 edition on its release date, June 26, with a one-hour webinar beginning at 1 p.m. CT.

June 5, 2025

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Employee Benefits

​​​​​Reminder: PCORI Fees Due By July 31, 2025

Employers that sponsor self-insured group health plans, including health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs) should keep in mind the upcoming July 31, 2025 deadline for paying fees that fund the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) via Form 720, which was recently updated and released by the IRS.

June 3, 2025

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Employee Benefits

Benefits Captives: Your Business and What Your Competitors Are Doing

In one form or another, Captive Insurance has existed as a risk management solution for many decades — originally for property and casualty coverage and primarily for large employers. But its viability as a solution for employee benefits and for midsized businesses has increased dramatically in recent years, fueled by volatility in the insurance market in general and by the skyrocketing cost of health insurance in particular.

May 29, 2025

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