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Beyond the Paycheck
Beyond the Paycheck brings you candid conversations with CHROs and top people leaders who are rethinking how compensation and benefits impact more than just employee bank accounts. From the first paycheck to financial wellness programs, we explore how money shapes identity, equity, purpose, and power at work, and how forward-thinking companies are using pay and perks to transform lives, not just attract talent. This podcast is sponsored by Aura Finance, the financial wellness platform designed…
Episodes
Beyond the PaycheckWhy Procept BioRobotics builds for the highest performers and the fewest of them
Summary Stacey Porter, Chief People Officer at Procept BioRobotics, joins host Kelsey Willock on Beyond the Paycheck to talk about the psychology behind…
Beyond the PaycheckSalary won't be enough: DataArt's case for total rewards
Summary Julia Zavileyskaya, Chief People Officer and partner at DataArt, joins host Kelsey Willock on Beyond the Paycheck to explain why salary alone will not…
Beyond the PaycheckCompanies are getting priced out of benefits. Now what?
Summary Amber Little, CHRO at Nation's Best, joins host Kelsey Willock on Beyond the Paycheck to talk about leading the whole human in a fast-growing hardware…
Beyond the PaycheckEmployable, not just employed: West Monroe's people bet
Summary Tanya Moore, Chief People Officer at West Monroe, joins host Kelsey Willock on Beyond the Paycheck to make the business case for supporting the whole…
Beyond the PaycheckExpecting humans to be frictionless is where HR falls short
Summary Kelsey Willock sits down with Khadijah "Kay" New, Chief Human Resources Officer at H2O America, the water and wastewater utility serving Connecticut…
Beyond the PaycheckWhy Included Health made its own employees the case study
Summary Jim O'Gorman, Chief People Officer at Included Health, joins host Kelsey Willock Jones on Beyond the Paycheck to argue that healthcare has become the…
Beyond the PaycheckLPL Financial's answer to employee money stress
Summary Julie Molloy runs compensation, benefits and recognition as EVP of Total Rewards at LPL Financial, a wealth management firm of roughly 9,500 employees…
Beyond the PaycheckWhy Varex Imaging stopped treating HR as separate silos
Summary Jay Hart, Global Head of Talent Management at Varex Imaging, joins host Kelsey Willock Jones on Beyond the Paycheck to make a case most HR leaders feel…
Beyond the PaycheckThe human is in the lead, not in the loop
Summary Lisa Jacobi, CHRO at COCC, joins host Kelsey Willock Jones on Beyond the Paycheck with a benefits story most HR leaders will recognize: a $40 a month…
Beyond the PaycheckThe military pay stub habit that changed her HR playbook
Summary Stacie Phylicia, Chief People Leader at Strategic People and Business Solutions, LLC, joins host Kelsey Willock Jones on Beyond the Paycheck to trace…
Beyond the PaycheckThe HR Leader Who Stopped Asking for a KPI on Trust
Summary Tarangita Gupta, global HR leader at Tenarai Inc, joins host Kelsey Willock Jones on Beyond the Paycheck to trace a line from her first paycheck, 6,000…
Beyond the PaycheckHow 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…
Beyond the PaycheckHow 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…
Beyond the PaycheckWhy 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…
Beyond the PaycheckTwo 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…
Beyond the PaycheckWhy 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…
Beyond the PaycheckWhat 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…
Beyond the PaycheckWhat 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…
Beyond the PaycheckThe 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…
Beyond the PaycheckStart 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…
Beyond the PaycheckWhen 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…
Beyond the PaycheckThe $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…
Beyond the PaycheckThe 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…
Beyond the PaycheckBenefits 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…
Beyond the PaycheckBenefit 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…
Beyond the PaycheckBuilding 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…
Beyond the PaycheckBuilding 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…
Beyond the PaycheckDesigning 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…
Beyond the PaycheckRethinking 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…
Beyond the PaycheckBuilding 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…
Beyond the PaycheckWhy 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…
Beyond the Paycheck400 Sign-Ups in a Week: The Hidden Demand for Financial Wellness
Summary What does a 400-signup week reveal about your workforce? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey talks with Ernie Florkowski, Director of…
Beyond the PaycheckWhy Paying People More Doesn't Make Them Work Harder
Summary In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock Jones sits down with Jonathan Taddeo, Director of Total Rewards at Syniverse, the company…
Beyond the PaycheckEliminating Delays and Errors in Your Total Rewards System
Summary What does it take to rebuild salary planning in eight weeks? In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willcok Jones talks with Nicholas…
Beyond the PaycheckEmpathy, karma, and the coming skills based workforce
Summary On this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey Willock sits down with Sarah Gonzales-Wilson, SVP of Total Rewards at Switch, the hyperscaler…
Beyond the PaycheckFrom CD changers to FICA: a head of HR on money, AI, and people
Summary Patrick Lopez, Head of HR at CMIT Solutions, joins host Kelsey on Beyond the Paycheck for a conversation that runs from a teenager's first paycheck to…
Beyond the PaycheckMoney, mind, and movement: supporting the whole employee
Summary On this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, host Kelsey sits down with Pam Tavilla, Head of People at Leyton, a global consulting and professional services…
Beyond the PaycheckThe Benefit Almost Nobody Uses, and Why It Pays Off
Summary On this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, Kelsey Willock sits down with Ken Wechsler, VP of Total Rewards at Akamai Technologies, to dig into why the…
Beyond the PaycheckThe Missing Conversation in Every Open Enrollment
Summary Beyond the Paycheck sits down with Tia Larsen, Director of Benefits at FJ Management, to trace the compensation comprehension gap back to its source: a…
Beyond the PaycheckWhat Do Your Employees Know About Their Retirement?
Summary In this episode of Beyond the Paycheck, Kelsey sits down with Tim Goodchild, Director of International Benefits at Take-Two Interactive (parent company…
Beyond the PaycheckFinancial Wellness Is the Frontier of Wellbeing
Summary On Beyond the Paycheck, Kelsey Willock talks with Preet Michelson, Chief People Officer at Morgan Street Holdings and its operating company TMS, about…
Beyond the PaycheckHow BambooHR Moved Comp Understanding From 50% to 90% With One Training
Summary One in two employees at BambooHR said they didn't understand how their compensation was determined. After a single mandatory compensation 101 training…
Beyond the PaycheckCompensation Starts with Owning Your Value
Summary Hollie Delaney, Chief People Officer at Power Home Remodeling, shares the financial independence lesson she absorbed at age 9, her 25-year career arc…
Beyond the PaycheckBuilding Total Rewards Statements That Actually Change Retention
Summary Jessica O'Leary runs benefits for 3,000+ employees across a charter school network in Dallas-Fort Worth. Her framework: treat every dollar of employee…
Beyond the PaycheckBuilding a Mental Health Benefit Physicians Will Actually Use
Summary Allison King runs total rewards at a national healthcare system where the pay gap between front-line staff and physicians spans six figures. After…
Beyond the PaycheckThe Employee Benefits Paradox: Great Programs No One Uses
Summary Melissa Zaino runs global benefits at Zayo Group, a fiber company competing with Google and Verizon. Her team serves 2,600 employees—half of them field…
Beyond the PaycheckYour Wellness Stipend Isn't Working—Here's Why
Summary A company rolls out a $200/month wellness stipend with the best of intentions. It lands in employees' paychecks alongside everything else. Nobody…
Beyond the PaycheckThe Compensation Issue Nobody Has Solved Yet
Summary The Mayo Clinic once surveyed its employees and found a 17% positive perception of pay. A year later, after running better enablement and transparency…
Beyond the PaycheckWhy Most Benefits Programs Break the Moment They Meet Real Life
Summary A pharmaceutical company was about to roll out student loan repayment—until they actually looked at the data and realized it was the parents and…
Beyond the PaycheckWhat a Dime Jar Taught Me About Pay, Anxiety, and Employee Empathy
Summary What does a first confession in 1980s Arizona have to do with how a Chief People Officer thinks about pay and benefits today? More than you'd expect…
Beyond the PaycheckWhy Open Enrollment Isn't Where Employees Actually Use Benefits
Summary Most employees don't think about their benefits until something goes wrong—and by then, they've already forgotten the open enrollment presentation, the…
Beyond the PaycheckWhy Your Benefits Communications Are Still Too Complicated to Work
Summary A hotel company with 120 properties across the country went from 20% open enrollment engagement to over 85% in a single year—and 21 properties hit…
Beyond the PaycheckWhy Your Benefits Strategy Is Failing Employees (And How to Fix It)
Summary What if the secret to building a thriving workforce started with a five-year-old saving a dollar a day? In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Charmion…
Beyond the PaycheckHow Crunch Fitness Cut Part-Time Turnover 24% With One Bold Benefits Move
What happens when you stop assuming what employees need and actually ask them? Pamela J. Brown, EVP and Head of People & Culture at Crunch Fitness, joins…
Beyond the PaycheckWhy Your Employees Are Choosing the Wrong Health Plan — And How to Fix It
Summary What if the biggest obstacle to your employees' financial well-being isn't their salary — it's that they don't understand what they already have? In…
Beyond the PaycheckFrom Cost Shift to Care Shift: Tom Armani on Value-Based Primary Care and Personalizing Benefits
Summary High-deductible plans were meant to save money—but for many employees, they’ve created “functional uninsured” risk and delayed care that drives bigger…
Beyond the PaycheckWhy You'll Compare TVs but Not Doctors: The Baldwin Group's Nick Getz on Healthcare's Consumerism Problem and What's Coming in 2027
Summary How do you help employees make smarter healthcare decisions in a system that’s anything but consumer-friendly? Nick Getz, National Director of…
Beyond the PaycheckPay Transparency Is Coming Whether You're Ready or Not: Silicon Labs' Total Rewards Leader on Education, Equity, and What Managers Must Learn
Shiny offer letters don't build trust—clear education and consistent execution do. Nick Oliveri, Senior Director of Total Rewards at Silicon Labs (a…
Beyond the PaycheckEmployees in Their 70s with $0 Saved: How Northside Hospital Is Using Age-Banded Strategy to Fix Retirement Before It's Too Late
If employees don't use their benefits, they don't create value. Tomekia Williams, Manager of Benefits Administration at Northside Hospital in Atlanta, shares…
Beyond the PaycheckThe Benefit Nobody Expected: GoHealth's Eric Waggoner on Financial Well-Being, Pay Equity, and Why Custom Insoles Outperformed Every Prediction
Summary How do you modernize total rewards for a 6,500-person frontline healthcare workforce—without losing the human touch? Eric Waggoner, Director of Total…