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July 17, 2025
HR Tips & Tricks
Beyond the desk: a guidebook for supporting every corner of your workforce
Dispersed workforces present a unique challenge for HR teams tasked with delivering benefits that feel both fair and relevant. This blog unpacks proven strategies—backed by real-world examples and data—that help HR leaders build inclusive, high-impact programs that resonate across corporate, retail, and frontline teams.
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June 2, 2022
Meet the Navanauts
“Brokers Can’t Be Afraid to Leave Our Comfort Zones”: Meet Bryan Davis, Nava’s National Practice Leader
As Nava Benefits’ National Practice Leader, Bryan Davis brings over two decades of benefits expertise to lead our Partner team in bringing healthcare benefits innovation to small and midsized employers. Hear from Bryan on why he chose to join Nava, how he perceives the role of technology in benefits brokerage, and why the status quo won’t work for brokers any longer.
June 2, 2022
Vendor Spotlights
4 Healthtech Benefits Vendors Led by Black Founders
Diversity in healthtech leadership is key to building a more equitable healthcare system. Here are four benefits vendors founded by Black entrepreneurs, providing support in a range of employee benefits categories — from mental health, to care services, to telehealth.
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May 27, 2022
Vendor Spotlights
3 Employee Benefits to Support Mental Health (That Aren’t Mental Health Benefits)
Outside of traditional mental healthcare, there are many other employee benefits categories that support mental health and wellness. These benefits vendors offer services that impact mental wellbeing, including care services, financial wellness, and addiction benefits.
May 20, 2022
HR Tips & Tricks
The Top 8 Questions to Include in Your Benefits Broker RFP
A great benefits broker RFP is made up of insightful questions that strategically uncover benefits brokers’ values, services, and level of support. Here’s our HR expert-approved list of the top must-have questions to include in your RFP.
May 17, 2022
Vendor Spotlights
6 Wellness Coaching Benefits Vendors to Support Mental Health
Wellness coaching services build personalized health and wellness plans to meet a range of unique needs, including mental health. Here are six wellness coaching benefits vendors that offer mental health support to employees.
May 13, 2022
Vendor Spotlights
4 Meditation Benefits Vendors to Reduce Stress and Anxiety for Your Employees
Meditation has been linked to decreased feelings of stress and anxiety, and better overall mental health. Here are six meditation benefits helping employees adapt wellness practices into their daily life.
May 13, 2022
Vendor Spotlights
5 Mental Health Benefits Vendors Offering Telehealth Appointments
Through telehealth options, patients can connect with talk therapists and mental health providers virtually via video calls, text chat, or phone. Here are 5 mental health vendors that offer telehealth appointments as employee benefits.
May 10, 2022
Life At Nava
8 Reasons Why Navanauts Love Working at Nava
Nava Benefits is thrilled to be included in Inc’s Best Workplaces 2022. From our supportive culture, to our cross-team brainstorms, to our willingness to experiment, Navanauts from across the organization weigh in on their favorite things about working at Nava.
May 10, 2022
Life At Nava
A Great Workplace Culture Doesn’t Just Happen. It’s Built.
Nava Benefits is thrilled to be included in the Inc list of Best Workplaces 2022. But this didn’t happen overnight — we’ve been focused on making Nava a great place to work since day one. Our People Operations Senior Manager, Ilana Mauskopf, shares three ways that Nava takes an intentional approach to building an inclusive workplace culture.
May 9, 2022
HR Tips & Tricks
RFP ASAP: 4 Steps to Launching a Smooth Benefits Broker RFP Process
A benefits broker request for proposal (RFP) can unlock crucial information about the employee benefits marketplace, your own total rewards offering, and the level of support your HR team could receive. But the RFP process can be time-consuming, confusing, and difficult — unless you’re well prepared. Here are four steps to get ready for a smooth RFP process.
April 27, 2022
Meet the Navanauts
“Too Much of Healthcare Is All About the Dollar”: Meet Rick Livesay, Nava Partner
Nava Benefits is thrilled to welcome Rick Livesay to our Partner team. We sat down with Rick to get his full story — from his perspectives on what’s stalling innovation in healthcare, to how health-tech can solve problems for both patients and HR, to how brokers can help fix our healthcare system.
April 13, 2022
HR Tips & Tricks
6 Ways to Reduce Your Company’s Healthcare Spend
As medical insurance costs continue to skyrocket, small and midsize businesses are seeing the highest benefits renewal cost increases of any employer size. Guided by award-winning investigative journalist Marshall Allen and former SVP of Walmart Health Marcus Osborne, here’s your guide to reduce employer healthcare costs without sacrificing quality.
