Building a Strong People Strategy: Insights from Experienced Leaders

Wednesday, May 21 11 am PT/ 2 pm PT

When 75% of your company’s total spend is allocated toward your employees’ compensation and benefits, getting your people strategy right has a meaningful relationship to your growth momentum and valuation.

We’re sitting down with business leaders who’ve scaled businesses and learned from different total people investment strategies. They’ll provide insights on:

• How they applied comp and benefits to compete in today’s marketplace
• The learnings and considerations from building teams that scaled
• Creative solutions they’ve found to retain and motivate key talent

Equity Refreshes in an Evolving Talent Market: What Companies Need to Know

Equity refreshes are a critical tool for retaining key employees and incenting company growth but getting them right can be challenging – especially in a quickly evolving talent market.

Join Sequoia’s Compensation Advisors for a session focused on building an effective, sustainable equity refresh program.

Scaling Your Startup: PEO, ASO, HRO Approaches Explained

For many startups looking to stretch runway, building fully-functioning, internal HR teams takes a backseat to other priorities. However, ensuring HR, payroll, compliance, comp, and benefits tasks are completed is still essential for startups to function properly.

The outsourcing market provides three well-established approaches for emerging companies to offload many of their HR tasks so leadership can stay focused on strategic business outcomes: professional employer organization (PEO), administrative service offering (ASO), and human resource outsourcing (HRO).

In this 30-minute webinar, we cover what each of these 3 HR solutions offer to startups that help drive business efficiency and provide the considerations leaders should factor in before choosing which is best for their company.

Preparing for Your IPO: The Essential Checklist for Finance and HR Leaders

Taking your company public is a monumental milestone for your investors and your people. It’s not just about the financial aspects like valuations, roadshows, and investment bankers. The success of your IPO also depends heavily on how prepared your team and systems are.

Members of the Sequoia advisory and Fidelity Stock Plan Services teamed up to provide you with an essential checklist of the proven “dos” and “don’ts” of pre-listing that guide a successful transformation of equity plans from private to public. This 60-minute webinar outlines steps for success and what you should prepare for as a Finance, Rewards, or People leader in your business.

We’ll cover important insights regarding:

• Presidential administration changes and their impact
• Public company rules
• Human capital strategy creation
• Maintenance of core culture
• Reevaluation of total rewards
• Communication with employees
• Systems and process “must-dos”

2025 Comp and Equity Trends: Timely Insights to Inform Your Comp Strategy

From navigating leadership directives to talent expectations to budget constraints, shaping your comp strategy for a tricky 2025 talent market requires Finance and HR to have as many insights and industry context as possible.  

Sequoia’s Comp Advisory and Market Insights team share data trends and insights from our latest compensation and equity report. Get an informed perspective on how leading companies are handling their compensation and equity practices to align with their business goals and talent market in 2025.  

In this session, they’ll share trends on:  

• Long-term and short-term incentive plans
• Equity Awards
• Compensation philosophies
• Merit pay structures

2024 Election Impact: Employee Benefits Rundown

Designed for all company sizes

Diane Cross, Senior Compliance Consultant, and James Slotnick, VP, Government Relations at Sun Life look at the 2024 election results and discuss the possible impacts to the employee benefits industry. View our webinar for valuable insights and Q&A.

During this 45-min webinar, we discuss what the election results could mean for:

• The individual and corporate tax provisions scheduled to expire at the end of 2025
• The future of federal paid leave policy and which states are most likely to pass statutory PFML programs in 2025
• Drug pricing legislation, including the impact on Medicare price negotiations and PBM reform
• Other benefit related items including mental health parity and dental plans

Rising Benefit Costs? Cost Containment Strategies and How to Implement Them

Designed for mid-sized to enterprise companies

Companies face tough financial decisions as the cost of healthcare and the rate of chronic conditions continue to increase. One Medical and Rightway joined Sequoia for a webinar on understanding the contributing factors to medical inflation and what type of strategies to implement throughout your company to mitigate increased costs. We all discussed how to support employee wellbeing and remove barriers to care as part of your approach.

What you can expect to learn:

• What is driving high medical renewals
• How to address high claimant costs
• How to support healthier, happier employees while reducing costs

2024 Benefits Trends for Tech Companies: New Benchmark Insights

Designed for all company sizes

We’ve compiled key takeaways from our 2024 Benefits Benchmarking Reports for how companies are modifying their benefits programs to compete for top talent.

In these quick 30-minute webinars, our experts cover:

• What are companies eliminating or adding
• Implications of keeping your benefits program competitive
• Cost containment strategies to stretch your benefits dollar
• Emerging benefits trends that are resonating with employees

How Startups Build Investor Confidence with a Smart Total Rewards Strategy

When 75% of your total spend is on your employee total rewards (compensation, benefits, and perks), investors want to see a smart and scalable approach to getting the most out of your investment in people.

How startup leaders communicate their philosophy and plan for attracting and retaining key talent, managing cash and equity burn, and staying strategically focused is key to building confidence in current and future investments.

In this 45-minute webinar, our advisors will share important dos and don’ts of how to address this with investors, including:

• What people spend insights investors are looking for
• What builds confidence and what erodes it
• Getting buy-in on your people-related growth strategy, burn rate, and overall plan

Compensation Strategy for VC-Backed Companies

Executive education series

Our compensation advisors will share key learnings, industry trends, and best practices, as well as the latest market developments and how Sequoia clients are taming the complexity of the comp management process.

Championing the Boardroom Discussion on People Spend

In-person events and virtual sessions this January and February.

Kyle Holm, Sequoia’s VP of Comp Advisory, and a panel of Sequoia clients will share how they are navigating people spend discussions at their board meetings. We’ll also share how our Comp OS solution is helping take the lift out of comp planning and making informed decisions on your people spend.

Comprehensive & Cost-Effective Parental Leave Strategies that Work

Struggling to implement robust paid leave programs amidst a challenging economic environment?

Join us to hear from people leaders who’ve approached these same concerns and developed thriving programs. They shared their policies, learnings, and tips and tricks to offering a paid family leave program your employees will love including:

• Instituting LOA policies that go beyond financial coverage
• Developing a supportive return-to-work program to increase retention
• Exploring additional low-cost benefits that help create a complete parental package

More With Less: Stretching Your Healthcare and Wellbeing Dollar

Designed for VC-backed high-growth tech companies with 100-500 employees

As a VC-backed emerging tech company, you may be looking for ways to do more with less. In this webinar, we discussed how mid-size companies are navigating smart healthcare and wellbeing investments to get the most out of their benefits dollar. We covered:

• Economic options and advantages of pooling and bundles
• What factors attract and retain employees in 2023
• Create the right mix for your culture without overpaying
• Ensure that employees use and appreciate what you offer

Implementing & Optimizing a Self-Funded Healthcare Program

Designed for enterprise & mid-sized companies

As companies seek out ways to optimize their healthcare investments and look to reduce costs, self-funding strategies continue to take the spotlight.

In this session, we shared quarterly best practices and unpacked insights from our latest survey of companies that are evaluating or optimizing a self-funded program. Some insights we shared include:

• How peer companies are approaching self-funding healthcare programs
• Best practices to position self-funding to internal stakeholders
• How to sustain an optimized self-funded program during dynamic times

Navigating 2023: Top People Strategies for Tech Startups

Designed for startup founders and leaders exploring a PEO

With 2023 at full speed, tech startups find themselves needing to adjust quickly to economic realities, new pay regulations, and an ever-shifting workforce dynamic.

In this webinar, we discussed how to navigate three timely challenges that tech companies are facing today and shared smart strategies to help you win with people.

We covered how to:

• Spend smartly on people in a tough economy
• Retain the critical people you need
• Attract key talent for your startup in 2023