Partners

The William F. Harrah College of Hospitality is ranked as the nation’s best because our program delivers unparalleled quality in both classroom instruction and real-world experience. On campus, Hospitality College students learn from some of the leading experts in the field. Off campus, students enjoy access to internships, mentorships, and job opportunities with some of the industry’s most notable brands. This well-rounded yet affordable education prepares students to step into careers in the dynamic hospitality and tourism industry. 

Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) is a leading, integrated, downstream energy company headquartered in Findlay, Ohio. The company operates the nation’s largest refining system. MPC’s marketing system includes branded locations across the United States, including Marathon brand retail outlets. MPC also owns the general partner and majority limited partner interest in MPLX LP, a midstream company that owns and operates gathering, processing, and fractionation assets, as well as crude oil and light product transportation and logistics infrastructure.

Purpose & Performance Group exists to ignite the power of purpose within people & systems to drive transformational performance. We tap into the science of the human condition to evolve individuals and the systems in which we work. Our team engages in a powerful, real and deeply human way to initiate and support change. Our commitment to modeling new behaviors and mindsets encourages teams to embrace community and value themselves and others.

We are a Native American-owned performance agency that helps leaders transform organizational and individual performance by operationalizing purpose. Our performance solutions align people and systems with the purpose of the organization and include leadership development, internal and external communications, and implementing progressive people processes (talent acquisition and retention, performance management, etc.)

With decades of combined experience working with a broad range of nonprofit organizations, industries and government agencies at the tribal, local, state and federal level, the P&PG team is committed to the creation and support of healthy, purpose-driven organizations. We improve performance through a unique blend of organizational design expertise and empirical human behavioral research.

P&PG can elevate your team’s performance through our proprietary programs that include The 6 Discoveries of High Performance: G.U.E.S.T. Service™, Tribal Communications, Coaching Certification for People Leaders, and other custom consulting and training programs.

Founded nearly 20 years ago, GuidedChoice pioneered a more personalized approach to retirement wellness, advice and managed accounts. The company’s “advisor friendly approach” began with the power of online technology. GuidedChoice was among the first to leverage technology to successfully provide a customized and transparent experience to its clients. With over 2 million employees helped through the power of our “easy to use” technology, they decided to expand their offerings. In early 2020, GuidedChoice opened a new division, 3Nickels, to bring holistic financial wellness, advice and managed account solutions to the market. This innovative approach provides anyone with a financial advisor in their pocketSM. Technology has enabled world class personalized advisory solutions to be made available to anyone. Transparency and the culture of integrity is at the center of everything they do. GuidedChoice believes the customer should understand the value of financial products and services that they choose to use.

Nava Benefits is a modern healthcare benefits brokerage leveraging technology and benefits innovation to tackle the rising costs of healthcare. Our mission is to bring high-quality, affordable healthcare to all Americans. Guided by the benefits experts at America’s largest employers, Nava is the first (and only) brokerage to distill the expertise, tools, and strategies from Fortune 500 benefits teams and offer them to any employer in America, at scale. And it’s backed by the industry’s first money-back Performance Guarantee.

Nava strives to make benefits easy — for HR professionals to find and administer, and for employees to choose and use the right healthcare plans.

S3 Management Group was founded with an industry-changing belief that employee risk is not simply a burden to be tolerated. Instead, we see it as an opportunity to make a difference – for employers and their people!

With their unique focus on minimizing employee risk in the workplace, S3 Management Group has served tribal employers for more than a decade. The S3 solutions enable employers to better Attract, Protect and Retain employees while minimizing people risk throughout the entire employee lifecycle.

Alliant is prepared to join with employers who are ready to begin building a healthier and more productive workforce. We know that the strategies deployed will be unique to each employer, but we also recognize that they will follow a predictable framework. We also know that the work involved in driving change of the type and magnitude needed for success will, in many cases, require knowledge and skillsets beyond what is available within most organizations.

We have accumulated that knowledge and those skillsets, and continue to do so, so that we may be of maximum value to our clients. Specific Cost Containment activities we offer include, but are not limited to: Procurement Services Group Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Self-Funded Short-Term Disability, Administration Fees, Fully-Insured Short-Term Disability, Premium Long-Term Disability, Premium Absence Management Leave, Management & Data Analysis, Strategy Development, Leave Administration Assessment, Feasibility Assessments for Leave Administration, Outsourcing Project Management and Outsourcing Implementation.

There is simply too much at stake to continue with traditional approaches.

The purpose of RWM Financial Group is to promote success via our knowledgeable team and robust set of tools. By working with us, you can help put your employees on the path toward a secure retirement.

RWM will lead the way toward retirement readiness for pre-retirees and new generations of employees — whose success come from your plan’s success. Combining professional dedication, cutting-edge tools, and high-impact education with a commitment to service, RWM Financial Group’s process sets a clear direction toward retirement for your valued employees and balances their needs with yours. The RWM process uses features and services that strive to create value for the employee and the employer.

Tribal First understands that addressing the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health of each individual is an essential component of Native American culture. We developed TribalCare as a premier solution for tribes seeking a partner with expertise and experience in developing a long-term healthcare model that addresses today’s immediate needs and prepares for tomorrow’s challenges.

Our suite of services is offered in support of and in collaboration with a tribal partner’s leadership team and health benefits broker, respectively. These services include, but are not limited to, plan design, plan administration, claims administration, clinical care management, and proprietary stop loss. TribalCare integrates a tribe’s health plan with its 638 authorities and, when applicable, coordinates accessing resources with Indian Health Service (IHS).

As directed by tribal leadership, the TribalCare solution supports a tribe in optimizing its PRC program authorities toward the purchase and delivery of comprehensive healthcare services for both the tribal employee and tribal member.

Developed in partnership with recognized tribal experts and organizations with long-standing tribal traditions and relations, TribalCare offers cost-effective products and services that improve the lives of Native Americans while significantly reducing healthcare costs through the following core services:

• Health Administration
• Pharmacy Plan
• Medical Stop-Loss
• Wellness Program
• PRC Administration/Tribal Clinic Portal

In 1937, Edwin F. Averyt and J. Clifton Judy started Mutual Accident Company in Columbia, South Carolina and sold their first product — accidental death coverage. Their first sales team was comprised mostly of local women. They could relate to the struggles others were going through and talk with them about their financial protection needs.

In 1939, the company became Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company. The mission then was the same as it is today — to help America’s workers preserve and protect the vitally important things they work so hard to build.

We’ve continued to evolve over the years:

• In 1955, we introduced worksite marketing of voluntary benefits through payroll deduction, and that first payroll deduction account remains a Colonial Life customer to this day.
• In the 1970s, we implemented computer technology long before most companies did.
• In the 1980s, we began marketing our products through Section 125 and introduced electronic enrollment capabilities nationwide.
• In the 2000s, we created our online enrollment system.

Today, we continue to add innovative enrollment technologies and options. After more than 75 years of business, we remain dedicated to our mission of finding ways to help America’s workers when they face unexpected events and challenging times.

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. opened its doors for business in 1927 and is still “growing strong” because of its deep commitment to helping its clients compete, succeed and prosper. Founded by its namesake who was previously the leading producer for Chicago’s largest insurance brokerage, Gallagher is now one of the world’s largest insurance brokerage, risk management and consulting firms. We have over 32,000 employees, offices in 33 countries, and extend our client-service capabilities to more than 150 countries through a global network of correspondent brokers and consultants.

Since 1961, Gallagher Benefit Services has been helping clients build better workplaces by creating new opportunities to cost-effectively attract, engage and retain the best talent in their field. Gallagher started trading on the NYSE under the symbol AJG in 1984.

Gallagher has maintained its steady growth through new business development and acquisitions. In recent years, we acquired dozens of independent employee benefits consulting, human resources, consulting firms and allied service providers. This strategy continually adds some of the brightest minds in the employee benefits and HR consulting business to our talent pool, and serves clients through an expanding local office presence as well as our national and multinational practice and service groups.

As an industry-leading provider of employee benefits brokerage, HR consulting, and administrative services with a strong growth record, we are well positioned to develop and administer programs that support a marketplace advantage for your organization.

PracticeMatch is the industry leader in providing practicing physician, resident, fellow and advanced practitioner data services to aid in-house physician recruiters. PracticeMatch also provides medical professionals with physician employment opportunities and valuable career resources. PracticeMatch has a marked history of innovation in the field of physician recruitment. Our robust online databases were the first to integrate all recruitment-related services into one convenient resource. PracticeMatch hosts nationwide virtual career fairs designed specifically for residents, fellows, practicing physicians, NP’s and PA’s in all medical specialties and subspecialties. These career fairs provide attendees with the opportunity to meet potential employers from leading hospitals and healthcare systems on both local and nationwide scales.

Our in-house staff of experts have the ability to supply recruiters with knowledge regarding email marketing campaigns, text message campaigns, direct mail marketing campaigns, custom sourcing solutions, digital advertising campaigns and quality customer service. As healthcare recruiting has evolved, nurse practitioners and physician assistants are being recruited with the same voracity as physicians. To answer the need, PracticeMatch created a new advanced practitioner database, APMatch, to assist nurse practitioners and physician assistants in their quest to find the perfect practice opportunity.

Tribal First’s mission is twofold: to help you preserve your heritage and to protect your future. By focusing exclusively on serving Native America, we have a deep understanding of the many diverse cultures employed by tribally owned and operated organizations and will structure insurance programs tailored to safeguard both your operations and your employees. Tribal nations are embarking on a new era of success and sophistication. Tribal First is here to make sure you are well protected on the journey.

NAS Recruitment Innovation empowers you to attract and engage quality talent with a strategic blend of targeted technology and expertise. Serving every major market across the U.S. and Canada, we’re consultative experts with more than six decades of experience and proven leadership in technology solutions, media buying and creative services.

We Exist to Help Indian Country Thrive
Blue Stone is a Native-owned and managed firm that began when we saw a great need in Indian Country — to protect sovereignty, to protect culture and to protect the future of Tribes. Since we began in 2007, we have helped hundreds of Tribes create stronger economies, communities and cultures. While we have grown in numbers, we have also grown in wisdom as we realize the important part we can play in developing leaders and putting our expertise to work.

The Mahoney Group traces its roots to 1915 and, over the last 100 years, has emerged as one of the largest independent insurance and benefits brokerages in the nation. Our substantial growth has been driven by our focus on a number of specialties including Habitational, Tribal, Condominiums, Self-Storage, Intermodal Trucking, Single-Family Investment Home and Pest Control programs. The Mahoney Group recognizes our success comes from dedication, commitment and involvement in the communities we serve.

Each Mahoney Group office is locally-run to provide you with personal and professional service from individuals committed to the area, while simultaneously backed by Mahoney’s specialized expertise and strength as a Top-100 Agency.

NWPS was started in 1994 to provide high-quality service for benefit plan sponsors, participants and advisors. We are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Raymond James, but remain an independent business channel. We have no conflicts of interest with investments or other Raymond James solutions.

Services
Plan consulting and design
Recordkeeping and actuarial
Compliance and administration
Communication and participant services

We employ imaginative, creative and practical approaches to meet client needs and address new developments. We work closely with our clients to ensure that their benefit plans are as efficient and effective as possible.

BeneCard PBF redefines what to expect from your prescription benefit manager (PBM). We’re putting an end to the games PBMs play by delivering a completely transparent, pass-through arrangement aligned with your interests.

That’s why we refer to BeneCard as a prescription benefit facilitator (PBF). We don’t play by the same rules as a PBM, with hidden revenue streams and complicated contracts that put you at a disadvantage. As a PBF, we prioritize member health and safety, along with the best interests of our clients.

As your casino prepares for the new world, Vector Solutions is ready to help provide a suite of applications that streamlines operations, increases effectiveness, and reduces liability. With Vector Solutions, your organization can have confidence in providing an innovative casino training program, as well as have the tools for compliance inspections, safety management tracking, and employee scheduling. 

Wipfli brings the curiosity needed to uncover what’s been overlooked. Our ingenuity helps create unexpected results. Our team of more than 3,000 associates works together to bring integrated solutions to turn data into insights, to optimize workflows, to increase margins and to transform through digital innovation. 

HUB advises businesses and individuals on how to reach their goals. 

HUB provides a vast network of risk, insurance, employee benefits, retirement and wealth management specialists that bring clarity to a changing world with tailored solutions and unrelenting advocacy. 

MedOne cuts out traditional middlemen to connect organizations & their members to high value therapies & pharmacies. 

AMERICANCHECKED PROVIDES: 

• U.S. and international applicant/employee background checks 
• Tribal screening of individuals and vendors 
• Paperless solutions for applicant and vendor tracking 
• Custom solutions tailored to every client’s needs 
• Full integration with leading ATS/HRIS systems 
• Exclusive partnerships with leading-edge technology providers 
• Innovative proprietary products and services 

PDS’ Vista® solution solves HCM challenges for organizations with employees across the U.S. and Canada. PDS provides you with a recruiting, onboarding, human resources, benefits, payroll, and talent management solution that reflects your business practices and processes. The PDS solution whether it’s deployed in the cloud or on-premise, can help your organization optimize your greatest assets – your employees, while you save time and money. Whether your users need access to HCM data from their desktop, their laptop, their tablet, or their smartphone – Vista delivers! If you are searching for a powerful, integrated solution that can be implemented quickly and will grow as your needs expand, contact our PDS solution experts today. 

Some of our customers include Cypress Bayou, Wyandotte Tribe of Oklahoma, Housing Authority of the Cherokee Nation, Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, Nisqually Indian Tribe, Menominee Indian Tribe of WI, and Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs – all of whom leverage the superior functionality of Vista.

Making your event or training program a success is our main goal 

There are many unknown factors when booking professional trainers, business speakers and convention speakers. We want to partner with you to make your event a spectacular success! We will take the guesswork out of topic and speaker selection. With an in-depth knowledge of program content, we can recommend the program and speaker that addresses your specific needs and helps you to achieve desired results. 

 We can offer insights, suggestions and ideas that can make your life and your job easier. Please take time to look through our site and let us know how we can serve you.

GITW Benefits brings the highest quality benefit options while helping to take the confusion out of the benefit selection process. The service you receive from our back-office customer support is second to none. GITW Benefit’s Leadership, Agents, and Administration sincerely care to help each employee find the right coverage to enhance their base benefit portfolio with choice Voluntary Benefits. 

Blue Cross ® Blue Shield ® of Arizona (BCBSAZ) is committed to helping Arizonans get healthier faster and stay healthier longer. With a mission to inspire health and make it easy, BCBSAZ offers health insurance and related services to more than 1.9 million customers. BCBSAZ, a non-profit company, is an independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. The company and its subsidiaries employ more than 2,500 people in its Phoenix, Flagstaff, and Tucson offices. To learn more, visit azblue.com or connect with us on social media: Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook.

The team of insurance professionals at Brown & Brown of Washington in Seattle serves the insurance and financial needs of individuals, professionals, families and businesses with a simple customer-focused philosophy. Because every customer is unique, every need is individual and every plan is customized, we understand that there is no “one size fits all” solution.

Founded in 2003, Morris Interactive has been working with organizations to develop their people and their business. We believe our people and our relationships are what drive business growth and success. We work with businesses of all sizes across multiple industries including agriculture, government agencies, universities, healthcare, mining and construction, as well as with Native American organizations.

HealthSmart has offered a wide array of customizable and scalable health plan solutions for self‐funded employers. HealthSmart’s comprehensive service suite addresses individual health from all angles. This includes claims and benefits administration, provider networks, pharmacy benefit management services, business intelligence, onsite employer clinics, care management, a variety of health and wellness initiatives and web‐based reporting. The Company’s headquarters is in Irving, Texas, with regional hubs throughout the country. HealthSmart’s mission is to improve member health and reduce healthcare costs.

Our business lines
Across our core businesses, annuities, life insurance, group protection and retirement plan services, we strive to act with honesty and dependability to build financial strength, security and prosperity for our customers, communities and country.

Our purpose
Our goal is to provide financial peace of mind by helping people to plan, protect and retire with confidence. For over a century, our trusted financial professionals have assisted people in planning their financial futures, protecting loved ones, securing lifestyles and incomes and preparing for the cost of long-term care expenses.

Our values
Since 1905, President Abraham Lincoln’s character and ideals have guided us as we strive to build a better world with greater financial security and opportunity for all. We embrace the future with integrity, our unwavering commitment to do the right thing and support our customers every step of the way.

APN Staffing & Employment Solutions is a staffing and recruiting firm specialized in both the healthcare and automotive space, and over the past 10 years, APN has branched into a third niche –tribal communities. At APN, we contract with many tribal nations throughout the US, including self-governing tribes, to staff and recruit permanent placements, contract staffing and temp-to-perm staff. We make it our job to understand each community’s needs and to find people that match those needs – while understanding that those needs look different to each community. Some communities require a high volume of people for a temporary project, like COVID vaccine clinics and other tribes may need reliable, entry-level employees for a job that simply just needs to get done. Today’s tribal HR departments are so busy that adding these additional projects onto their desks is just not feasible. When a C-level leader leaves, and the organization needs to quickly identify and attract a new leader, APN can also fill this need with our executive search program. APN’s strategic approach and deep-rooted connections help clients accomplish a need so many companies struggle with today…. finding good, qualified talent. To learn more, please visit apnusa.com or call 602-788-5890.

Expertise – Michele Justice, a New Mexico licensed private investigator, started Personnel Security Consultants, Inc. (PSC) in 2004 to help Native Americans protect their communities and children, and meet federal hiring requirements. PSC offers background screening services, adjudication services, and hosts training for those wanting to learn how to perform these services for their own agencies. PSC employs dedicated and skilled security specialists who are always available to provide technical assistance to our clients. Currently, PSC has been designated by the FBI as the authorized recipient for over 150 Tribes throughout the United States. Ms. Justice also serves as an Adjunct Instructor for the US Graduate School and has been invited to train nationally to clients such as NASA, TSA and the Federal Protective Service.

Community – Our commitment has always been to aid in the protection of our families and communities. PSC President Michele Justice, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and of Hispanic descent, has over 25 years of experience in employee background screening, training development and is recognized as a national expert in personnel security. She has since expanded PSC services to Federal agencies, private agencies and to over 200 Tribal Programs. Continually working with and traveling to our Native American communities ensures we are always well-informed of the needs of the clients we serve.

National Recognition – PSC has received a number of awards and honors, including the New Mexico SBA Small Business Person of the Year, the Governor’s Award for Outstanding New Mexico Women, the American Indian Business of the Year Award, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Top 100 Businesses Blue Ribbon Award and was selected as TEDx Presenter for the State of New Mexico.

KARLA BYLUND, MS, SHRM-SCP
I am a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and have over twenty years of experience in the human resources profession. The majority of my career has been in Indian Country and I have worked with / for many tribes across the country. In the course of my career I have conducted numerous organizational, compensation and classification studies; audited many HR departments; conducted sensitive investigations and implemented policies, procedures and processes to remove inefficiencies and improve the overall performance of company teams. I have also developed onsite and e-learning training programs focusing on the unique challenges in Indian Country.

Qualifications:

Master of Science degree in industrial and organizational psychology from Kansas State University

Bachelor of Science in business administration from the University of Phoenix.

Diversity and Inclusion certification from Cornell University

Senior Human Resource certification from the Society of Human Resource Management

Strategic Services Group was established in 2012 to leverage the strengths of two successful Michigan-based benefits consulting and insurance brokerage firms – each with 30+ years of experience in the employee benefits industry – and a genuine commitment to foster a unique culture that embraces trust and respect, integrity and collaboration. 

Waldorf University is a small college located in Forest City, Iowa offering residential and online degree programs that combine a strong liberal arts base with applied learning.  

Visit http://Waldorf.edu to learn more 

Southeastern Oklahoma State University offers a variety of degrees and certificates across many areas of study and emphasis. Our students benefit from personal attention from faculty and staff, as well as affordable tuition and a student-centered environment. Discover which online program is right for you and prepare to open the door to new career opportunities. 

The Medicus Firm provides the most efficient and effective recruiting services to hospitals and healthcare employers nationwide with unmatched sophistication, consultation, and market insight. The goal of The Medicus Firm is to help hospitals and healthcare employers grow their physician staff, advanced practice team, and patient services, while minimizing interruptions in quality patient care caused by turnover or unfilled positions. Forbes has listed The Medicus Firm as one of America’s Best Professional Recruiting Firms for three consecutive years because of its outstanding performance. 

The Paradigm Shift consultants use practical leadership and adventure-based models to help both students and educators develop powerful relationships, set SMART goals, embrace personal responsibility, operate with clarity, and develop a defined purpose. 

Renalogic provides the most comprehensive CKD risk management and dialysis cost-containment methodology to improve plan member health and protect plan assets.

As one of the nation’s leading diversified health care benefits companies, Aetna provides people with information and resources to help them make better informed decisions about their health care – and the financial side of health care. 

 Our health insurance products include medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral health. We also offer services for health care management, workers’ compensation administration and health information technology. 

Through collaboration with more than 200 tribal government clients, REDW has learned how our resources are essential for tribal self-reliance, honor, and endurance. Tribal leaders face many challenges; in addition to improving the quality of life for tribal members and creating economic development, there is also a need to keep up with Federal guidelines for tribal funds. REDW can help with solid systems for your accounting, financial reporting, internal controls, and other basic financial tracking systems, and help with specialized requirements such as: 

• Federal financial management of Federal grant funds
• Self-governance and self-determination through PL 93-638
• Relevant financial policies and procedures
• Preparing for Single Audits

Newport Healthcare is at the forefront in the essential work of helping teens, young adults and families heal and thrive.

With nearly 80 locations across the United States, Newport Healthcare dedicates each location to a specific age range and gender with a special focus of trauma-informed treatment and co-occurring conditions such as self-harm, eating disorder, substance abuse, suicide ideation, and other conditions common in clients exposed to trauma.

Our innovative approach to mental healthcare earns accolades from different media and press outlets around the world. It is our dedication to client success that has allowed our Newport Academy and Newport Institute programs to achieve accreditation from The Joint Commission, exceed licensing standards of care, and nurture affiliations with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), National Association of Behavioral Healthcare, Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, Independent Educational Consultants Association, and the American Psychological Association.

The two biggest priorities for our clients and families are identifying the best clinical fit as well as the best location compatible with the client’s insurance coverage. Newport Healthcare works with most commercial insurance policies, self-funded policies and can contract directly with self-funded tribal organizations.

At UKG, our purpose is people™. As strong believers in the power of culture and belonging as the secret to success, we champion great workplaces and build lifelong partnerships with our customers to show what’s possible when businesses invest in their people. Born from a historic merger that created one of the world’s leading HCM cloud companies, our Life-work Technology™ approach to HR, payroll, and workforce management solutions for all people helps 50,000 organizations around the globe and across every industry anticipate and adapt to their employees’ needs beyond just work. To learn more, visit ukg.com.