SHRM webinar

Stop, collaborate and listen

May 23, 2023

How small organizations can harness the power of employee listening and benefits communication to drive retention.

About this webinar

To keep employees in these challenging times, experts say it's critical to listen to employees and effectively communicate benefits. But this can be difficult for smaller businesses. In this webinar, our panel explains how businesses of any size can conduct employee engagement surveys and promote benefits all year long.

Jump to a webinar chapter

Chapter 1: Employee expectations for small businesses

Chapter 2: Building an employee listening program

Chapter 3: Crafting a year-round benefit communication strategy

Featured speakers

Wendra Johnson, SHRM-SCP, SPHR

Vice President, HR Technology, Unum Group

Wendra Johnson's expertise in pairing SaaS Benefits and HR technology with organizations, leading teams to deliver on a full spectrum of hire to retire experiences and educating on market trends, has been the essential ingredient to driving innovation in benefit enrollment solutions and transforming the HR digital landscape. Johnson is responsible for launching and scaling solutions for both Unum and Colonial Life's small and core business markets. With deep experience in human capital management (HCM) solutions and technology, her extensive career has spanned industries, including benefits, healthcare, staffing and manufacturing.

Anna L. Hulett, Ph.D.

XM Scientist, Qualtrics

Anna Hulett is an Industrial Organizational (IO) Psychologist with over 10 years of experience leveraging data-driven insights to understand the interdependencies between business strategy and the employee experience, ultimately empowering clients across industries and organizational contexts to build a better workplace. Hulett's expertise in employee listening design and analytics, paired with her experience in strategic human capital management, allows her to provide comprehensive employee experience solutions across the employee lifecycle. She currently serves as the chair of the SIOP Salary Survey Committee, regularly presents at the annual international SIOP conference, and her research and thought leadership have been published in the Journal of Managerial Psychology, The Industrial Organizational Psychologist, and IO Psychology: Perspectives & Practice. Prior to Qualtrics, Hulett worked as a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton and as an applied psychologist at several Fortune 50 companies, including UPS and Johnson & Johnson.