Kim Lipsky has over 20 years of experience in corporate wellness and is Director of Client and Customer Engagement for Cigna. She has been with Cigna for over 15 years and currently oversees 4 Well-Being Strategists, 3 Engagement Advisors, and 4 Onsite Well-Being Coordinators throughout Arizona. Kim oversees the well-being strategies for all Arizona clients including open enrollment, communication strategies, and all wellness programming to improve the health of all customers. She also ensures the complete satisfaction of book of business for all of Arizona in regards to wellness programming.

Ms. Lipsky earned her Bachelor of Science degree at University of Arizona’s School of Public Health with a focus in Health Education, and a master’s degree in Public Health from California College for Health Sciences. She also is a licensed Master Community Health Education Specialist.

Previously, Ms. Lipsky was regional program manager for Club One Professional Services in San Jose, California. In that role, she developed and implemented the employee wellness program for 13 offices and 700 employees of Applied Materials throughout the East and West Coast. She developed wellness interventions for each worksite, conducted health and fitness assessments, taught fitness classes, and established sports and recreation programs and online wellness and lifestyle enhancement opportunities for field employees.

Prior to that, she was community relations coordinator for Arizona Heart Institute and Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. Ms. Lipsky was responsible for providing community outreach efforts, such as public lectures and screenings, to raise public awareness of heart and blood vessel disease. She also planned, implemented and evaluated the first community health education programs for the Arizona Heart Hospital, including StatFacts, an emergency readiness program, and Healthy Thursdays, a free screening program.

An energetic and engaging speaker, Ms. Lipsky presents frequently to community, corporate management and worksite groups on a broad range of health and wellness topics.

Michelle Martin is a professional with over 15 years of benefit management and human resources experience. Ms. Martin joined CBS Corporation in 2006 as Director of Health & Welfare Benefits. Holding several position since joining CBS, she is now Vice President, Employee Engagement. She is responsible for strategy, design and performance of CBS’s health and welfare plans. In addition, she is responsible for engaging a large diverse and geographically dispersed employee population. Her creative and unique approaches to company-wide campaigns and events have earned her multiple awards.

As a professional with broad experience Ms. Martin taught a CEBS course at Hofstra University which placed emphasis on key economic, accounting and financial concepts essential in the administration of employee benefit plans.

Ms. Martin is a Certified Employee Benefits Specialist with a certification in Global Benefits Management. She holds an MBA from Adelphi University.

Michelle is also an active member of the community. She is Board Chair of the Northeast Business Group on Health and is on the Board of Directors of HealthPass New York and The Leapfrog Group. In addition, Michelle sits on an advisory board for Covenant House New York Mother Child Center.

Angela has many years of experience challenging the status quo to improve healthcare in the US. Her Executive Masters in Public Administration is focused on health care transformation through federal and state policy and reform initiatives. In the health care industry she focused on Patient Centered Medical Home designs and created a team-based leadership model that was adopted across 5 states. She also created new creative wats to drive improvements through the patients perspectives, bringing them across the table with the health care system executives to demand improvements, and it worked. These programs are now running across the state of OR and are embedded into all primary care and hospital practices.

For the past several years, Angela has been leading innovative, employer-led ACO models for Intel in the US. No other large employer has this direct contracting relationship with local health care systems, so to build them all took strong leadership and partnership. The most recent data shows how the vision behind the ACO models is working, achieving Triple Aim outcomes: reducing costs, improving health outcomes, and getting high member satisfaction and engagement rates. Angela is a passionate leader in health care that brings the right people around the table to make the impossible happen.

In her role as the Director of Initiatives and Programs, Margaret works with various healthcare stakeholder groups and coalition leaders to bring leading initiatives and programs to the employer community. She brings with her over 18 years' experience working with employers in the areas of wellbeing, culture, population health, wellness, and overall healthcare strategic planning.

Over the years she has led cross-functional teams that implement successful approaches in healthcare and multi-stakeholder community collaboratives focused on resolving challenges and leveraging common synergies. She is a national speaker on healthcare topics including: health benefits, consumerism, employee engagement, business performance, leadership, and the Impact of health and wellbeing in organizations.

Before joining the National Alliance, she was part of the leadership team at the Midwest Business Group on Health, a leading business coalition in Chicago. Prior to that she created and developed a successful employee health & wellness program for 11 years at a community college. In 2013, she was appointed to the University of Wisconsin Health and Wellness Management Program Advisory Board. She has been an adjunct faculty professor since 2008 and teaches corporate health and entrepreneurship at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Nicole Stec is the Employee Health and Wellness Manager for the City of Mesa and a frequent speaker about employer wellness programs. For the past ten years, Nicole has worked in community and corporate health settings, designing and implementing well-being programs for organizations, including healthcare systems, small businesses, the U.S. military and local government.

In her current role, Nicole is responsible for the City of Mesa’s Health and Wellness Center and the City’s worksite wellness program. The Wellness Center and Program offer several resources to City of Mesa employees and families, including chronic disease self-management programs, preventative health services, screenings and coaching.

Nicole is a Certified Wellness Practitioner (National Wellness Institute), an Integrative Health and Lifestyle specialist (University of Arizona) and a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (National Strength and Conditioning Association).