Compensation Strategy for VC-Backed Companies

Executive education series

45 min sessions, Thursdays at 11am PT

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.

This October & November, join us for six essential topics presented every Thursday:

• Carta + Sequoia Total Comp Solution: Get Your Comp Strategy Right
• Demystifying Compensation Philosophy
• How to Use Equity to Retain and Recruit When Cash is Tight
• Pay Equity Compliance: How to Protect Your Company
• 5 KPIs that Prove the Effectiveness of Your Total Comp Program
• Comp Management for a Geographically Dispersed Workforce

Outlasting the Economy:
5 Ways to Maintain a Competitive Benefits Program

Designed for companies of all sizes

You’re being asked to do a lot—invest in your employees but also cut back, create a high-performing people strategy but also navigate an unstable economy, ensure your benefits package is competitive but also aligned with business goals.

In these 30-minute webinars, our benefits advisors help you navigate these challenges by breaking down the top 5 ways successful companies are changing and maintaining their benefits programs in today’s economy.

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

Optimizing Employee Benefits in Canada

Designed for Sequoia clients with Canadian operations and those considering setting up in the country

This webinar will provide visibility to the Canadian benefits landscape and what is typically provided within the tech industry there, including government-mandated benefits. We’ll also explore best practices for setting up and managing benefits in Canada that will provide your company with a competitive edge while staying compliant with market practices.

Some insights we’ll cover include:

• Nuances of the Provincial healthcare system
• The Retirement system and supplemental solutions
• Mandated benefits and trends unique to Canada

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

3 Steps to Get Pay Compliance Right
in 2023

Designed for Sequoia clients

With new pay transparency legislation in places like New York, Colorado, and California, companies are faced with the tough task of getting pay compliance right. Not only do organizations need to get there quickly, in many cases, they also need to revisit their compensation philosophy to make important decisions on defining pay ranges.

In this webinar, our team of compensation advisors walked through three fundamental steps that help companies get compliance right and support their ability to attract and retain top talent.

Reducing Costs with Modern Pharmacy & Centers of Excellence Strategies

Designed for enterprise & mid-sized companies

Sometimes reducing corporate costs results in lower quality employee healthcare and erodes the employee experience – but that doesn’t have to be the case. In this webinar, we will explore two high-conviction cost containment strategies, Centers of Excellence (COE) and Pharmacy Benefit Management carve-outs. These strategies have proven track records to reduce costs, improve outcomes, and enhance employee experiences.

Join Sequoia, and the founders of two innovative healthcare companies, for an interactive 50 minutes – followed by Q&A – as we frame the opportunity, dive deep on the path forward, and share real results.

End-of-Year Payroll Webinar for Sequoia One Clients

Designed exclusively for Sequoia One clients 

Join Adela Alexander, Payroll Manager for Sequoia One, for an end-of-year payroll best practices session to review: 

• Accounting for 2022 taxable events
• How Sequoia One can assist with mass year-end changes
• Repaying your Social Security deferral
• Getting your Total Rewards Statements ready for year-end
• Your top questions in a dedicated Q&A

On Board: Building an Equity Program That Works for Your Board and Employees

Designed for those exploring Sequoia Total Rewards

Equity has gone from an innovative executive recruiting tool to table stakes for employees at tech companies. With the right process, design, and tools in place, you can improve your return on people investment and enable your equity program to do what it’s meant to do – attract, motivate, and retain.

In this webinar, compensation experts from our Total Rewards Advisory team covered how to:

• Integrate the interests of employees, the board, and all shareholders to design the optimal equity program
• Communicate equity effectively to your employees
• Continuously evaluate and monitor your equity program
• Prove the return on people investment to leadership

Pay Transparency: Solve it with Sequoia

As companies work to comply with new pay transparency laws, a larger concern is starting to form: moving forward, company-wide compensation will now be on display for all their employees, candidates, and competitors alike to see.

In this webinar, we explored what employers need to do and key considerations for doing it right. We also showcased how Sequoia’s People Platform and Advisors can help support both immediate and long-term needs.

On Your Game: Mastering the Comp Planning Process

Designed for those exploring Sequoia Total Rewards

With economic pressure building and venture funding thinning, getting your compensation planning right is more important than ever.

Our panelists will share their strategies and learnings around:

• Presenting a strategic case on desired budget to your board
• Allocating your budget and making trade-off decisions
• Communicating your decisions and reinforcing your philosophy to employees
• Ensuring your internal and external pay transparency policies align

Solving the Top People-Related Challenges for Tech Startups

Designed for those exploring Sequoia

In this webinar, we’ll provide guidance for tech start-ups on scaling your people strategy while you retain employees, attract top talent, and optimize your people-spend.

We’ll cover how you can:

• Leverage benchmarking data to stay competitive in
  today’s economy
• Prioritize employee wellbeing
• Create effective policies and processes that scale
• Maintain compliance across all states to support
  remote teams

5 Total People Investment Insights for Your Next Board Meeting

This session was designed for CPOs at Sequoia clients

Total People Investment typically accounts for 75% of total business spend. As investors dig in on spend control, CPOs (and their CEO) must show command and control of how people spend is being applied across the org, and how it impacts their workforce dynamics.

During this 30-minute webinar, we demonstrate how TPI Insights can help you:

• Forecast your total people spend
• Manage your equity burn rate
• Measure ROI on your people programs
• See targeted views of turnover
• Know the right levers to pull to ensure sustainability

Win With People:
Total Rewards Webinar Series

Pay. Equity. Benefits. Wellbeing. Yesterday’s approach to Total Rewards simply isn’t enough for this fast-moving and much more complex distributed workforce. In this series of webinars, our panel of Sequoia moderators and subject matter experts will unpack how pioneering HR and Business Leaders are approaching their workforce planning and total rewards strategy now. We’ll also look at the latest capabilities of the Sequoia People Platform that support our clients’ strategies and help them win with people.

The Grove Conference

Catch up on what you missed at The Grove Virtual Conference, our annual gathering for the Sequoia client community of people driven leaders.  

What Employers Need to Know About Self-Funded Programs Webinar Series

Three-part series designed for enterprise companies

Whether you are currently fully-insured, newly self-funded, or managing an established self-funded plan, gain valuable information in this three-part webinar series to optimize your program as you continue to grow.

Series panels include leaders from tech companies with recent implementation experience, financial management expertise, and long term strategic insights.

What Employers Need to Know: Healthcare Legislative Update & Vaccine Mandates

View this session recording or an update on the latest information on federal and state vaccine mandates as well as how employee benefits are impacted by President Biden’s Build Back Better Plan.

You’ll hear from experts including:

James Slotnick, Head of Government Relations at Sun Life
Marjory Robertson, AVP & Senior Counsel at Sun Life

The Startup Dilemma: Navigating the Hybrid Work Environment

In this 1-hour webinar, we unpacked how startups and emerging companies are adjusting in this hybrid work environment – from collaboration, to administration, to taking care of peoples’ ever changing needs.

We heard lessons learned from HR and business leaders who are tackling these issues to ensure their companies continue on their path to greatness.

Bo Han, Founder & CEO at Buzzer
Melina Murray, VP, People at Replicated
Andrew Knowles, Sr. People Operations Manager at Yardzen
Daniel Harrah, National Director of Clinical Partnerships at Spring Health
Rachel Schwab, Sr. HR Business Partner at Sequoia

WellBeyond Virtual Series & Awards

WellBeyond is a free, global, and industry-wide thought leadership series and awards program focused on the now and next in workplace wellbeing.

Return to the Workplace Webinar Series

A webinar series bringing together some of the best business, legal, and medical experts, as well as the tools and Sequoia resources to help guide you on the path forward.