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Carissa Murray Joins Alliant Insurance Services’ Southern California Benefits Team

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Murray has extensive experience in PEO advisory, human capital management, and workforce strategy Carissa Murray has joined Alliant Insurance Services  as Assistant Vice President within its Employee Benefits Group. The San Diego, California-based consultant will work with employers across the Western Region to evaluate and implement workforce solutions that address organizational needs, mitigate risk, and support sustainable growth. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ “Carissa brings a highly consultative approach to helping organizations make informed decisions about their workforce and benefits strategies,” said Kevin Overbey, President, Alliant Employee Benefits. “Her broad understanding of the PEO marketplace and commitment to client advocacy will provide significant value to employers navigating an increasingly dynamic business environment.” With a decade of experience in human capital management and the PEO in...
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HRtech Series Insights: Closing the Gap Between Employee Learning and What People Actually Do at Work?

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For decades, HR tech got better and better at measuring whether employees consumed learning, but much worse at measuring whether that learning actually changed what people did at work. Course completion rates, attendance, assessment scores, content engagement, and employee feedback surveys are now standard indicators of learning success. But these metrics measure participation, not transformation, for the most part. The employee can complete a training module, do well on an assessment, and have a positive learning experience, but not apply new knowledge when real workplace situations arise. This gap is important because it separates learning activity from behavior change that has real meaning. The challenge is only mounting as organizations speed up their adoption of artificial intelligence. Employees can use AI assistants, automation tools, and generative AI apps regularly without necessarily changing how they make decisions, collaborate, solve problems or execute workflows. The wide...
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EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants Elevate Adam Okun to President, Employee Benefits

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Twenty-year employee benefits veteran to strengthen client service through increased specialization and integrated solutions EPIC Insurance Brokers & Consultants (“EPIC”), a national insurance brokerage and consulting firm providing specialized services across select industries and client sectors,  announced  the promotion of  Adam Okun  to  president, employee benefits.  Okun succeeds  Craig Hasday , who has been appointed  vice chairman, employee benefits . Reporting to  Phil Moyles , co-president of EPIC , Okun holds more than two decades of relevant experience, most recently serving as regional practice leader at EPIC and previously as co-president of Frenkel Benefits, which became part of EPIC through a 2017 acquisition. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ As employers of all sizes seek new ways to manage employee benefits and meet the evolving healthcare needs of their workforces, specialized expertise has ...
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Vensure Employer Solutions Appoints Michael Lockhart as Chief Information Security Officer

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Vensure Employer Solutions , a leading provider of HR/HCM technology, managed services, and global business process outsourcing, announced the appointment of Michael Lockhart as Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), responsible for leading cybersecurity strategy, governance, and enterprise risk management initiatives across Vensure Employer Solutions and its family of employer services brands. As CISO, Lockhart will oversee efforts to strengthen Vensure’s security capabilities and support the organization’s continued growth across its global operations. His approach is guided by a security operating model built around four pillars: minimum viable security, security maturity, cyber-risk management, and external governance. Together, these principles help organizations prioritize investments, navigate evolving regulatory requirements, and build resilient, scalable security programs that support business growth. “Michael’s unique combination of technical expe...
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True Launches Forensic Referencing Offering and Appoints Christopher Jaros as Partner to Lead

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True , the premier global executive talent platform powered by data, AI, and sector expertise, announced the launch of True Forensic Referencing, a new executive intelligence capability designed to help investors, boards, and executive teams make more informed leadership decisions before high-stakes investments, new business relationships, and governance milestones. The firm also announced the appointment of Christopher Jaros as Partner to build and lead the offering, bringing nearly two decades of experience in investigative due diligence, law, and executive intelligence. The new capability expands True’s executive intelligence platform, complementing the firm’s executive search, assessment, and leadership advisory services with deeper investigative insight when leadership decisions carry the greatest strategic and financial impact. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ “Investors apply extraordinary rigor t...
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Everyone looks good on paper now

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A job application once held weight: a well formed resume, a clear cover letter, a thoughtful screening answer. In the past two years, genAI has flattened most of that trusted signal to noise. Now, trust is eroded and talent professionals are struggling to make heads or tails of this new hiring landscape. The problem is not only resting on candidates, who are doing the logical thing by using AI tools to polish and mass apply to jobs. Employers are still using screening methods that were built for a hiring landscape that no longer exists. This is not a candidate problem The seductive response is to blame candidates, to say their use of AI tools to mass produce cover letters and applications has turned the process into an untrustworthy mess. But let’s be frank: people are doing the rational thing. According to Greenhouse’s 2026 AI in Hiring Report, 74% of candidates in the U.S. now use AI in their job search. They are using tools that make them shine, make applying faster an...
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Alliant Insurance Services to Acquire Nava, Creating an AI-Native Model for the Future of Employee Benefits

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This combination brings together connected intelligence, human expertise, and national scale to improve benefits performance every day, not just at renewal Alliant Insurance Services announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Nava Benefits, combining Alliant’s advisory depth, analytics, scale, and risk expertise with Nava’s AI-native HQ platform to help define the next generation of employee benefits brokerage. Catch more HRTech Insights:  HRTech Interview with Emma Lavelle, Chief Operating Officer, UneeQ The acquisition comes at an important inflection point for the industry. Technology has long supported benefits brokerage, but artificial intelligence creates an opportunity to fundamentally change how benefits are delivered. Rather than adding another technology layer to a traditional service model, Alliant and Nava intend to create a more connected operating model in which real-time intelligence, technology, and human expertise work together to improve benef...
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