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At the current rate of progress, a young woman starting her career today will be working for more than a quarter of a century before she can expect to work at a mid-market firm with gender parity in top roles. While understanding that gender diversity is a fuel for potential growth that brings benefits to the bottom line, many businesses often lack a clear purpose behind their gender equality strategies at the risk of another missed generation of opportunities. This year’s Women in Business research gives reason for optimism and there is a great deal to learn.

When companies gather and use behavioral insights to accelerate behavioral and cultural change, they can have a positive impact in their company’s vision, priorities, work environment, and more. By understanding what employees are doing—in addition to how they are feeling—companies can address the people and culture issues that can hold back transformation and value realization. Here, we identify five key steps to using behavioral data effectively to support and foster a successful cultural transformation in your workplace.

Being a fiduciary for your organization’s retirement plan doesn’t have to be complicated or overwhelming. However, it does require careful oversight to mitigate risk and help participants meet their retirement goals. With the use of this checklist that should be reviewed on an annual basis, employers can better manage their retirement plan responsibilities.

Affordability, vitality, resiliency, and employee wellbeing are the key areas of focus when it comes to employee benefits in 2025. With this outlook, see how organizations will embrace innovative strategies as the cost of healthcare benefits—driven largely by skyrocketing pharmaceutical prices—will continue to pressure employers who are committed to maintaining these and other benefits. In addition, employers are enhancing benefits to improve mental health and employee wellbeing.

Compensation plans are a key part of any business. Using the national and regional data as average percentages of payroll, this guide can assist you with your 2025 compensation plans. As you review the information, helpful definitions are provided for your reference: general increase/COLA, merit increase, other increases, total salary increase budget, salary structure adjustment, and variable pay.

The myriad of challenges in 2024 significantly impacted operations, budgeting, and workforce management for all organizations in 2025. Leveraging strategic solutions will be essential for optimizing benefits, controlling costs, and supporting employees’ overall well-being in 2025.

When evaluating Family Enterprise Advisors, you need to feel confident in the advisor’s competency, objectivity, and responsiveness to your needs. Giving someone access to the most significant parts of your life can be challenging, which is why following four key tips will help with your advisor selection and choose a trustworthy advisor you can rely on to get the results you need.