HR Happy Hour 242 - Big Ideas for Employee Benefits in 2016 Hosts: Steve Boese, Trish McFarlane Guest: Nate Randall, President &Founder, Ursa Major Consulting Recorded live at the 4th Annual Health & Benefits Leadership Conference, Las Vegas This week on the show Steve sat down at the Health & Benefits Leadership Conference with Nate Randall, President & Founder at Ursa Major Consulting to talk about three big ideas and trends in employee benefits that Nate is seeing as he works with organizations around the country.  Nate shared some ideas around managing benefits in a global and distributed environment, and the challenges that can present. We also talked a little about use of Private Exchanges for employee benefit coverage, and some considerations that employers should take into account when evaluating this model. Finally, we spent some time discussing the new trend of employers offering Financial Wellness programs for their employees, and some important factors employers need to consider before deploying these kind of programs. Nate also shared some insights from one of his former roles at Tesla Motors, and the challenges they faced in scaling up the organization from under 1,000 employees to over 13,000 in a very short time. This was an interesting and informative show with one the the industry's leading experts and thinkers on employee benefits - we hope you will check it out. Reminder - you can subscribe to the show on iTunes and all the podcast player apps for iOS and Android - just search for 'HR Happy Hour' to subscribe and never miss a show.