Jennifer Benz is SVP and Communications Leader at Segal Benz, where she and her team help organizations engage their people and drive business results through effective communication. The firm’s work spans all areas of benefits and HR and blends the best practices of consumer marketing, design, and behavioral science. Segal Benz has received top honors from Pensions & Investments, Business Insurance, the Profit Sharing Council of America, Employee Benefit News, and others. Their clients include leading “Best Companies to Work For,” prestigious higher education institutions, large public entities, and multiemployer plans. As an influential voice in the employee benefits industry, Jen is widely quoted in publications, including the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Employee Benefit News, Human Resource Executive, HR Magazine, and Workforce. She has appeared on CNBC and testified several times before the Department of Labor’s ERISA Advisory Council. Workforce magazine named her an industry Game Changer. She served for 3 years as the program chair for the HR Executive Health and Benefits Leadership Conference, one of the industry’s premier events. She also advises several industry organizations and startups.Jen launched Benz Communications in 2006 and quickly established the company as a leading voice in the employee benefits industry. Benz Communications was one of the Top 100 Women-Owned Businesses in the Bay Area from 2012 through 2019, when The Segal Group acquired the company. Benz Communications was also a 5-time honoree on the Inc. 5000, which lists the nation’s fastest-growing private companies, and it was recognized by the San Francisco Business Times as one of the Fastest-Growing Companies in the Bay Area.Prior to starting Benz Communications, Jen spent 7 years at Hewitt Associates (now Aon and Alight) and graduated from the University of Missouri with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. A long-time San Francisco resident, Jen devotes much of her time to pro bono work with local nonprofits and in Guatemala.