Smith Communication Partners built a business around a stubborn workplace truth: the message has not landed until somebody knows what to do next. Its best work turns legal thickets, benefit choices and corporate change into useful instructions - sometimes with a superhero fighting Dr. Distraction.
The employee communications agency turns benefit changes into campaigns people can use. Its work reveals how much depends on the unglamorous details: access, timing and a clear next step.
A retirement quiz, a cafeteria campaign and a website without a password: Segal Benz helps employers turn complicated benefits into something people can actually use.
For nearly two decades, iRelaunch has argued that a career break is context, not a defect. Its playbook turned an awkward résumé gap into a talent category - and now an acquisition by Akraya is testing whether that category can scale.
The Syracuse brokerage has spent decades turning a once-a-year insurance purchase into an always-on operating discipline - combining coverage, claims, benefits, HR and prevention under one roof.
Joshua Barrow is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of Skillcentrix, the only consultancy 100% focused on Workday customers' entire talent lifecycle. With a Harvard CS background and 25+ years building and selling tech companies - from Breakaway Solutions' 1999 IPO to selling Third Sky to VMware in 2014 - he now sits at the intersection of HR strategy and enterprise software, helping healthcare organizations make skills data safety-critical rather than just strategic.