Beyond the Paycheck

How Langan kept hybrid while its competitors pulled everyone back

Summary In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones sits down with Donovan Mattole, CHRO at Langan Engineering & Environmental Services, a global fi

How NRG is Taking a Broader Approach to Employee Financial Well-Being

Summary What do you do for employees when you can't out-pay inflation? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones sits down with Gin Kirkland Kinne

Why Kraton Corporation continues to prioritize retirement readiness

Summary What does it take to protect a benefit when every other line item is getting cut? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones sits down with

Two Simple Fixes That Finally Reached a Deskless Workforce

Summary What keeps employees at a company when a competitive paycheck is just the starting point? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones sits d

Why your benefits might be built for an employee who doesn't exist

Summary What happens when a people leader cuts the benefits that exist for show and hands the money to employees instead? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kel

What 50% benefits renewals mean for your paycheck

Summary What happens when benefits renewal costs rise 15% to 50% while wages rise 3%? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones sits down with Chu

What a culture program did that a 10% raise for 100,000 workers couldn't

Summary How do you make a case for people programs when the spreadsheet won't back you up? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones talks with Ky

The Game Boy rule: how DaBella teaches delayed gratification at work

Summary Jeremy Stick, CHRO at DaBella, joins host Kelsey Willock Jones on Beyond the Paycheck to trace a line from his first paycheck, $2.35 an hour washing dishes in a j

Start With a Smile: Why Saving $2,000 on an Offer Costs You More

Summary What if the most valuable benefit in your package is the one without a line item? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones sits down with

When the Best Benefits Can't Be Justified by a Spreadsheet

Summary What do you do when the best benefits can't be justified by a spreadsheet? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones talks with Ann Meyers

The $20 Million Benefits Investment Employees Forgot in a Year

Summary What do employees actually need from their rewards package? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones talks with Eric Gutierrez, VP of Tot

The Financial Wellness Pilot That Cut Turnover From 50% to 14%

Summary What does it take to keep frontline employees past their first year? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones talks with Catherine Johnso

Benefits Are Table Stakes, Education Is the Differentiator

Summary What happens when AI runs more of HR than people do? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones sits down with Kelsey Browning, VP of Peopl

Benefit Personas: Making Rewards Human Across 15,000 Employees

Summary What are you actually paying your employees for? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones talks with Joshua Lemon, Senior Director of Glo

Building Rewards Programs That Serve the Business, Not Just HR

Summary What happens when companies raid their benefits budgets to fund AI initiatives? On Beyond the Paycheck, Kelsey Willock Jones talks with Cristabel Lim, Senior Dire

Building Total Rewards From the Ground Up

Summary What does a first paycheck spent on school supplies have to do with designing benefits for a 2,500-person global cybersecurity company? In this episode of Beyond

Designing Total Rewards That Actually Move the Needle

Summary What happens when a company treats employee financial health as mission critical instead of a perk? Christopher Forbeck, Director of Total Rewards at NorthWestern

Rethinking the Benefits Package Employees Actually Use

Summary On this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, Kelsey Willock Jones sits down with Stephanie Elliott, Director of Benefits and Compensation at SGA Dental Partners, to un

Building Total Rewards From the Ground Up

Summary What does fair pay actually mean when your employees span more than 20 countries? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones talks with Fel

Why Financial Stress Is a Safety Problem

Summary What does an employee working a second job actually tell you about your workplace? Sarah Cornelio, Total Rewards Manager at Urban Engineers, joins host Kelsey Whe