Katherine Verbec

Director, Total Rewards

HSM

Kate currently serves as theDirector, Total Rewards at Hickory Springs Manufacturing Company. The role includes the areas of Benefits, Compensation, Work Compensation and Payroll.Kate’s experiences include, most recently, Director of Benefits for ReynoldsAmerican, a division of British American Tobacco. Other prior benefit related employment includes Hearst Corporation and Samsung. Kate also worked as a consultant for Willis Towers Watson.

Managing self-insured health plans has provided her the opportunity to think out of the box for reduced healthcare cost programs including direct contracting, on site clinics, chronic disease management, and medical tourism. With IndusHealth, HSM was a pioneer inself-insured companies offering medical tourism, as was presented on ABC Newsand Nightline.

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Speaker Questionnaire

What are your top priorities for employee health and well-being in 2022?

What are the most innovative programs that you will focus on in 2022 and 2023?

Looking at our three moonshots surrounding costs, culture, and care, which do you align with the most? What are you doing in this area?

If you could automatically receive a 25% reduction in costs in three areas/programs, what would your dream list be?

Is there an area where you were able to either create savings or stop costs from rising?

Are you doing anything to reimagine corporate culture and wellbeing?

If there were two physical solutions that could be turned into virtual or remote care instead, what would those be?

If you look at our 3 Moonshots - Costs, Culture, and Care; In one sentence, tell us what would be something positive for us to take from 2020 and bring into this new year?

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1 Conference. 3 Moonshots.

Remember the mission to reach the moon? In 1962, President JFK set forth a vision. He initiated a movement that outlived him! Even in his death, the mission was accomplished seven years after his famous speech. Now we’re on a five-year mission, and it's not about us. This is a mission for you – the individual, the stakeholder, the employer healthcare and benefits professional. Join the mission to reduce costs, reimagine culture, and reinvent care.