Turnover is expensive, budgets are tight, and financial stress is quietly driving your workforce out the door. This webinar shows Total Rewards and HR leaders a practical way forward: How financial wellness benefits can improve employees' effective take-home pay and financial stability—without traditional pay raises.
Hear directly from three healthcare leaders who've done it, then see how Plannery supports what they describe. Recording and slides go to everyone who registers.
Why this session matters
Financial pressure is one of the most overlooked drivers of turnover in healthcare—and one of the few you can influence without touching base compensation.
- 75% of healthcare professionals report daily financial stress.
- Financially stressed employees are nearly five times more likely to report lower engagement and higher intent to leave.
- Organizations using Plannery report up to 47% reduction in attrition.
- This is a conversation about what works, grounded in real organizational experience—not a product pitch.
What you'll learn
- How employees can save money by accessing exclusive refinancing and financial tools that saves thousands.
- How financial wellness benefits can improve employees' take-home pay and reduce financial strain without a salary increase
- What launching a financial wellness benefit actuallyreally looks like—and how to bring employees along
- How to connect financial wellness to measurable retention, engagement, and workforce stability
- How to activate these benefits through hStream at no additional cost to users, with minimal administrative lift
Who should attend
This session is built for the people responsible for keeping healthcare teams stable and supported:
- Chief human resources officers, VPs of HR, and directors of Total Rewards
- Workforce and benefits leaders navigating retention under budget pressure
- Executives focused on staffing stability and employee wellbeing
- hStream users responsible for workforce strategy and benefits
Your speakers
The session opens with three healthcare leaders sharing their own experiences, followed by a practical overview of Plannery.
- Joe Zuniga — Sr. Director of Total Rewards (formerly), Phoebe Putney Health System. He will convey what drove the decision to prioritize financial wellness, how he made the case internally, and what the retention impact looked like in practice.
- Cynthia Cronkhite — VP of HR, UNC Health Lenoir. Cynthia will outline how UNC Health Lenoir approached financial wellness as part of a broader retention strategy, and what she'd tell other HR leaders considering the same path.
- David Jones — Former CHRO at UCSF, Stanford Health, and other major health systems. David provides a broader industry view on why financial wellness has become a retention lever—not a perk.
- Krishnan Gopalakrishnan — As the Plannery expert, Krishnan will provide a walkthrough of how Plannery works and how it supports the goals the other speakers describe.
