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## ALLIANT LEARNING ACADEMY

##### Rising Healthcare Costs. Limited Control. What Employers Can Do Differently with ICHRA

## Date and Time

Thursday, June 18 | 10:00am PST

 

About The Event

For many organizations, traditional group health plans are becoming increasingly difficult to manage—with double-digit renewals, limited plan flexibility, and growing administrative complexity. At the same time, employers are being asked to make more strategic decisions with less room for error. In this session, Alliant will share how their national vetting and vendor selection process helps employers evaluate emerging solutions like ICHRA—followed by a practical look at how these strategies work in the real world and what it takes to implement them successfully.

## Topics Covered

1. Why traditional group health plans are becoming harder to sustain
2. How leading advisors evaluate new benefit strategies
3. How Alliant evaluates alternatives like ICHRA
4. What ICHRA is—and how it works in practice
5. What implementation actually looks like
6. What happens after year one

 

## Presenters

![1769017785208](https://pages.alliantbenefits.com/hubfs/1769017785208.jpg "1769017785208")

Justin Curtis  
First VP, Vendor Program Solution, Alliant Insurance Services

Justin is an insurance industry leader with close to 30 years consulting with large/national/jumbo employer benefit plans, developing and managing account management and sales teams, and providing strategic management of operations and M&A. He has a specific focus on self-insured benefit strategies, start-up development and integration, health plan operations, captive and alternative financing arrangements, financial analysis, stop loss, pharmacy benefit management, ACO's, direct contracting, and point solution evaluation/integration. 

 

![Kristen Gunter](https://pages.alliantbenefits.com/hubfs/Kristen%20Gunter.jfif "Kristen Gunter")

Kristen Gunter  
SVP, Benefits Consultant, Alliant Insurance Services

Kristen started in the industry in 2002, alongside earning her Associate of Arts degree in Merchandise Marketing from the Fashion Institute of Merchandise Marketing.  Kristen joined Alliant in 2023. She serves employers locally and across the United States with her combined experience from local boutique, public global, and privately held national brokering and consulting firms. She brings value to employers through her mastery of all levels of employee benefits consulting including client service, client leadership, and national advisory to firms seeking scalable employer solutions and career pathing of the colleagues that serve them.

 

![Chris Poucher](https://pages.alliantbenefits.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Chris%20Poucher.jpg?width=800&height=800&name=Chris%20Poucher.jpg "Chris Poucher")

Chris Poucher  
Vice President of Sales, SureCo

Chris Poucher is Vice President of Sales at SureCo, where he leads the company’s sales organization and supports the growth of strategic partnerships with brokers, consultants, and employer groups nationwide. With deep experience in sales leadership and employer benefits strategy, Chris helps organizations evaluate modern health benefits approaches, including ICHRA, with a focus on affordability, flexibility, employee choice, and scalable implementation.

![Tash Fericelli](https://pages.alliantbenefits.com/hubfs/Tash%20Fericelli.jpg "Tash Fericelli")

Natasha Fericelli  
Regional Sales Director, SureCo

Natasha “Tash” Fericelli is Regional Sales Director at SureCo, where she partners with brokers, consultants, and employer groups to evaluate ICHRA as a strategic alternative to traditional group health plans. With experience across sales, channel partnerships, Learning & Development, and benefits education, Tash helps organizations and their advisors understand where ICHRA fits, where it may not, and how to approach the conversation through the lens of cost control, employee experience, and long-term benefits strategy.

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