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Daniel Hest shared thisI'm proud to share that Strongpoint Partners has landed on the Inc. 5000 for the third consecutive year, this time at #530, and #10 in Chicago. This recognition belongs to our administrators, consultants, actuaries, onboarding and L&D specialists, salespeople, and payroll professionals who manage thousands of plans and the countless details behind each one. It belongs to our platform team too, for the support they give every one of our partner firms. Thank you to our clients, and to our advisor, CPA, and recordkeeping partners, for the trust you place in us. And thank you to every person at our firms for earning it again this year. The ranking isn't the part I'm most excited about. Small and mid-sized businesses have been underserved in the retirement space for a long time. We're still in the early innings of building our national network that pairs deep local expertise with the technology and infrastructure to change that, and I believe our best days are ahead of us. #StrongerTogetherDaniel Hest shared thisWe're proud to share that Strongpoint has been named one of America's fastest-growing private companies on the Inc. 5000, coming in at #530, placing us in the top 11% of the list. It's a milestone that means the world to us, and one we owe entirely to the people behind it. As a national network of retirement plan administration and consulting firms, our growth is really a reflection of something simpler: the trust our clients place in us, and the heart the partner firms pour into their work every single day. We are truly #StrongerTogether. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gQEb3c_b
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Daniel Hest reposted thisDaniel Hest reposted thisManaging a book of retirement plans shouldn't mean logging into five systems to answer one question. Today we're introducing Advisor Growth Lab, Strongpoint's dedicated portal for financial advisors. One place to manage every plan, stay ahead of compliance, and get answers the moment you need them. Your plans. Your insights. One place. Swipe to see what AGL brings together. Create your advisor account here: https://lnkd.in/geQBkuRw #MakingRetirementWorkForEveryone #StrongerTogether
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Daniel Hest shared thisGreat opportunity to work with Anh Nguyen and Eric Hanson in a high-impact data transformation role!Daniel Hest shared thisWe are #hiring a Data Transformation Manager, and it's a really exciting opportunity! Strongpoint is growing fast, and this role sits at the center of that growth: owning data quality, leading migrations, and building the automation that keeps it all clean. Reach out if you or anyone you know is interested! https://lnkd.in/gJqiEKDN
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Daniel Hest shared thisWelcome to the Strongpoint family, Finway Group, A Strongpoint Partner! Steve Finnegan, Keith Lowery, and the entire Finway team have built a business known for deep expertise in 3(16) fiduciary services, PEPs, and PPP capabilities, which will expand the Strongpoint Partners service offering and allow us to help more people save for retirement. Looking forward to working alongside this outstanding team as we grow together! Welcome aboard! #strongertogetherDaniel Hest shared thisWe're proud to welcome Finway Group, A Strongpoint Partner, to the Strongpoint Partners family. Based in Des Moines and led by Steve Finnegan, Finway has built one of the fastest-growing platforms in Pooled Employer Plans and 3(16) fiduciary services, with a presence in 43 states and expertise that plan sponsors and advisors across our network will now be able to tap into. As our 24th partner, and the first headquartered in Iowa, Finway expands what we can offer across the retirement landscape. Their team stays in place, their high-touch, single-point-of-contact service model stays intact, and together we keep working toward a shared goal: making retirement work for everyone. Welcome to the Strongpoint team, Finway! Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gTEXM7Dq #StrongerTogether #MakingRetirementWorkForEveryone
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Daniel Hest reposted thisDaniel Hest reposted thisMeet the future of pension actuarial work! We built something new for one of the retirement industry's most in-demand fields. Our Actuarial Career Development Program is a nine-month rotational program that trains the next generation of pension actuaries through mentorship, structured learning, and live client work. It's the first program of its kind, and it positions participants for Enrolled Actuary eligibility within 36 months. These aren't just future actuaries. They're the next generation of the Strongpoint family. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gjJbVui6 #MakingRetirementWorkForEveryone #StrongerTogether
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Daniel Hest shared thisI’m proud to share that Strongpoint Partners has earned Great Place To Work® Certification for the second consecutive year, and has also been recognized as #10 on the Fortune Best Workplaces in Chicago™ 2026. This year, 93% of our employees said that Strongpoint is a great place to work (an increase from 92% in 2025). While we’ve grown significantly over the past few years, I’m most proud of how we’ve done it. We’ve added new partners, built new capabilities, and entered new markets, but the most difficult thing to scale in any organization is culture. Our values, Stronger Together, Obsess Over the Customer, Strive to Be Better Every Day, Do Right Things Do Things Right, Seek to Understand Why, and Own the Outcome, align us and guide how we recognize, reward, make people decisions, and choose which partners we work with. Great Place to Work is simply a reflection of our amazing team who lives these values every day. To each and every member of the Strongpoint team: thank you for making this a special place! I’m excited to be on this journey with you! https://lnkd.in/gJTBgphp #strongertogether
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Daniel Hest reposted thisDaniel Hest reposted thisOur mission of #MakingRetirementWorkForEveryone isn't just a tagline: it's what drives every tool we build, every partner we welcome, and every client we serve. We're proud to share the latest issue of Strongpoint Magazine, sharing stories of Our Mission in Action. From AI-powered technology to investing in the next generation of actuarial talent, this issue shows what it means to be #StrongerTogether. Read it here: https://lnkd.in/gTFVgkKm
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Daniel Hest reposted thisDaniel Hest reposted thisGrowing demand means growing the team, and we're investing in the right people to meet the moment. We're excited to welcome Heather S. as our first Business Development Representative and David Kay as Regional Sales Consultant supporting Actuaries Unlimited. We're also celebrating the well-deserved promotion of Michael P. Davis to Vice President, Head of Sales Execution, a new role that will extend his expertise across our Partner TPA network coast to coast. Each of these moves reflects our continued commitment to supporting our Partners' organic growth in every local market they serve. Welcome, Heather and David. Congratulations, Michael. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gQuTDjKH #StrongerTogether #MakingRetirementWorkForEveryone
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Daniel Hest reposted thisDaniel Hest reposted thisWe're building an Internal Business Development team at Strongpoint. It's an opportunity to: -Shape growth strategy -Build relationships -Drive new business I'd love to connect more about this opportunity and greatly appreciate Retirement Industry referrals! #BellaAtStrongpoint #StrongerTogether https://lnkd.in/gpaZbuXK
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Daniel Hest liked thisDaniel Hest liked thisBehind every payroll run is a team of people who care about getting it right. Meet the Strongpay team. We're the ones who know your account, catch the details that matter, and pick up the phone when you have a question. Payroll is technical, but at its heart it's a people business, and this is the group that makes it that way. We're proud of this team, and grateful for the clients who trust us every day. #StrongerTogether #PayrollYourWay
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Daniel Hest liked thisDaniel Hest liked thisBehind every retirement plan is a team of people who care about getting it right. Meet the Karel-Gordon & Associates team. We're the ones who know your plan by name, catch the details that matter, and pick up the phone when you have a question. Retirement work is technical, but at its heart it's a people business, and this is the group that makes it that way. We're proud of this team, and grateful for the clients and partners who trust us every day. #MakingRetirementWorkForEveryone #StrongerTogether
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Daniel Hest reacted on thisDaniel Hest reacted on thisI'm thrilled to share that I've joined Mars as CMO for the Better-For-You business, part of the Mars Snacking Accelerator. I have the privilege of leading marketing and unlocking growth across some of the most exciting brands in snacking today — a mix of emerging challengers and enduring favorites, including KIND, RXBAR, Pure Organic, Nutri-Grain, and Special K. Its a one-of-a-kind opportunity to tap into the capabilities and scale of one of the largest brand-led companies in the world, while pairing it with the agility, speed, and founder-mentality of a start-up to unlock the future of better-for-you snacking. I'm deeply grateful to Daniel Calderoni and the entire Accelerator team for this opportunity – looking forward to what we get to do together. And to everyone who gave time, perspective, and support as I explored my next career adventure — thank you. It means more than you know. #CPG #Marketing #BetterForYou #Mars #CMO
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Daniel Hest liked thisDaniel Hest liked thisBehind every retirement plan is a team of people who care about getting it right. Meet the United Benefit Pensions team. We're the ones who know your plan by name, catch the details that matter, and pick up the phone when you have a question. Retirement work is technical, but at its heart it's a people business, and this is the group that makes it that way. We're proud of this team, and grateful for the clients and partners who trust us every day. #MakingRetirementWorkForEveryone #StrongerTogether
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Daniel Hest liked thisDaniel Hest liked thisKen Griffin keeps a $10 plaque behind his desk: “If we’re all going to eat, someone has to sell.” That might be the most honest business lesson there is. Griffin says you’re always selling: to employees, customers, investors, vendors, and partners. And selling means hearing “no.” Early in Citadel’s history, Griffin once flew to Switzerland for a meeting, only for the person to realize he had mistaken him for someone else and walk out. Later that day, another banker told him he was a bright young man who had simply chosen the wrong career. Two brutal rejections in one day. His response? Get used to hearing no. Whether you’re raising money, hiring people, or building a company, rejection isn’t the exception. It’s part of the job. 💵 Get your brand in front of my audience 🌍 CheaperTeam | In-Office Overseas Employees From $9/Hr 📈 Tuli Talks Markets Newsletter
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Daniel Hest liked thisDaniel Hest liked thisSomething big has changed in the candidates I'm getting for Product Manager roles. 6 months ago, nearly every candidate who got to the take-home challenge stage of the process would send back some form of AI slop. Sometimes it was really horrible, but usually it was at least meandering and unfocused, with way too much reliance on AI to structure and frame the solution. I almost canceled that part of the process, thinking it was useless, but I knew that if someone didn't have the taste to make sure the output was solid, then they wouldn't be successful in our roles. So the exercise stayed. I'm recruiting again, and this time, this problem barely exists. I can tell that folks use AI to help in the task, but what I'm getting back now consistently is framed by the candidate's brain and presents a much more coherent story and thought process. I don't think it's that the AI outputs have gotten better, because I use Claude, Gemini, etc every day myself. I think we turned a huge bend where candidates realized that human judgement was still a necessary filter on our work... and I believe this is a microcosm of a greater shift. Thank goodness. I was so sick of reading slop.
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Daniel Hest liked thisDaniel Hest liked thisNew Episode of Bigger. Stronger. Faster.! What does it look like to drive real change in a fast-growing business when no one reports to you and the playbook does not exist? In this episode, Anderson Williams sits down with Nick Sherrard, Chief of Staff at Thermal Shipping Solutions and a member of Shore Capital Partners' CXO Fellows Program, to discuss what it means to step into a family-founded, fast-scaling microcap company as one of the youngest executives in the room. They discuss: • Why the speed and attribution of impact in a microcap business convinced Nick this was the right path, starting with an internship at a Shore portfolio company • How an engineering mindset of inputs, outputs, and bottlenecks turns recurring fire drills into root causes you can actually fix • Why driving change without authority comes down to making every solution a win-win-win, and what it means when you can't make that case • How the CXO cohort serves as part joint therapy and part best practice sharing, because nobody else in your company is living the same highs and lows Nick also shares the best advice he's ever gotten, which he's never lived more fully than this past year: don't confuse urgency with importance. This job is a marathon, not a sprint. Listen and subscribe on Spotify or your favorite podcast platform: https://lnkd.in/gZ-M34ZR Michael Burcham Austin Johnson #ShoreUniversity #BiggerStrongerFaster #PrivateEquity hashtag#CXO #ChiefOfStaff #Leadership #Microcap
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Daniel Hest liked thisDaniel Hest liked thisJoin us in celebrating the Rustandy Center’s Tyeise Huntley, director of nonprofit leadership programs and partnerships, who was selected for the Leadership Greater Chicago Signature Fellows Program Class of 2027. Through the Signature Fellows Program, Leadership Greater Chicago provides a foundation for a lifelong commitment to civic engagement by creating awareness of key issues facing the Chicago region and challenging leaders to drive positive change in the community. For 10 months, participants will engage in a civic leadership development fellowship, equipping them to tackle critical socioeconomic issues affecting Chicagoland. Congratulations to Tyeise on this exciting milestone!
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Daniel Hest liked thisDaniel Hest liked thisPlease join us in congratulating Michelle Condou on her well-deserved promotion to Vice President of TPA Channel Management and Strategy. We're thrilled to have her passion and experience in this role, which is designed to deepen Empower's support for the TPA channel and help TPA partners serve their clients.
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Advanced Negotiation Workshop / Negotiation Dynamics
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Customer Centric Selling
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Korn Ferry / Expedia Leadership Development
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