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2025 Tools & Tactics Webinar: Measuring the Impact of Leave Benefits

Thursday, Oct. 9
9:00 am PT | 12:00 pm ET

Join our expert panel as we share key findings from the DMEC & Unum Think Tank. You’ll discover a practical framework for evaluating how leave offerings influence employee productivity, satisfaction, and retention. Learn how to use objective metrics to measure results and build a strong business case for leadership. Walk away with tools you can apply in your own organization.

Learning Objectives

  • Learn how to leverage objective metrics to assess the impact of leave benefits and make a compelling business case to leadership.
  • Hear from employers who have successfully measured the impact of leave benefits within their organizations and gain insights from their experiences.
  • Take away a practical framework for measuring the outcomes of leave benefit offerings, enabling attendees to apply these tools within their own organizations.

Presented by

VP, Solutions Product Strategy
Unum
CEO
DMEC

This session qualifies for the following CEUs:

1 ADMS, 1 CDMS, 1 CLMS, 1 PHR, and 1 SHRM

TO QUALIFY FOR CEUs

  • You must attend the full duration of the webinar. Following the webinar and once attendance has been confirmed, you will receive an email with CEU reporting information.
  • You must register for and watch the webinar individually. Group participation does not qualify for CEU credit.

Exclusively offered by DMEC, the Certified Leave Management Specialist (CLMS) program is the only professional designation of its kind that provides interactive, hands-on training to ensure your programs effectively comply with state and federal leave laws. Learn more about the CLMS program.

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29.99

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Susan Stowell
VP, Solutions Product Strategy
Unum

Susan joined Unum in 2014 as the Assistant Vice President, Healthcare Segment Leader. In 2019, she was promoted to Vice President of Solutions Product Strategy, where she drives the strategic vision for new enhancements to Unum’s leave and absence portfolio and leads the go to market efforts. Prior to joining Unum, she was a senior healthcare executive at Stroudwater Associates, where she led the Physician-Hospital Alignment Practice and worked closely with hospital executives and their Board of Directors to provide strategic, operational, and financial consulting services.

Susan is a graduate of Princeton University and earned her MBA at the Simon Business School at the University of Rochester. She currently resides in Falmouth, ME.

 

Bryon Bass
Bryon Bass
CEO
DMEC

Bryon joined DMEC in 2023. He brings more than 20 years of experience in the absence and disability management industry. He was previously Senior Vice President, Workforce Absence and Disability Practice Leader for Sedgwick where he oversaw disability and absence management product strategy, innovation, standards and compliance, and product line best practices. He also worked in a variety of absence and disability management roles for employers across a broad range of industries. Bryon assumed the role of CEO in 2024 and provides strategic executive leadership for the association and oversee all association activities.

Bryon holds a BS in Business Management from the University of Phoenix and is a Certified Leave Management Specialist (CLMS).

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Alice Cotti

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Seth Turner, Chief Strategy Officer
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Chief Strategy Officer

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Susan Stowell
VP, Solutions Product Strategy
Unum

Susan joined Unum in 2014 as the Assistant Vice President, Healthcare Segment Leader. In 2019, she was promoted to Vice President of Solutions Product Strategy, where she drives the strategic vision for new enhancements to Unum’s leave and absence portfolio and leads the go to market efforts. Prior to joining Unum, she was a senior healthcare executive at Stroudwater Associates, where she led the Physician-Hospital Alignment Practice and worked closely with hospital executives and their Board of Directors to provide strategic, operational, and financial consulting services.

Susan is a graduate of Princeton University and earned her MBA at the Simon Business School at the University of Rochester. She currently resides in Falmouth, ME.