About BenefitsConsultant.ca
Better benefits decisions start here.
BenefitsConsultant.ca was created with a simple idea: Canadian employers deserve clearer, more practical information about employee benefits and retirement plans.
Benefits are one of the largest investments organizations make in their people. But understanding whether a plan is competitive, sustainable & delivering value isn’t easy.
There’s no shortage of information. The challenge is knowing what matters.
Why we’re here
Clarity in a complicated market.
BenefitsConsultant.ca is a trusted source of insights, benchmarks and practical guidance for Canadian HR, Total Rewards and Finance leaders.
We take complicated benefits and retirement topics and make them easier to understand, evaluate and act on.
Our focus is on the questions employers actually need answered:
No unnecessary complexity. No jargon for the sake of jargon.
Just useful information to help you make better decisions.
Experience behind the insights.
The thinking behind BenefitsConsultant.ca is grounded in more than 25 years of experience across employee benefits, insurance, consulting, technology and financial services.
That experience spans working with organizations of virtually every size—from growing Canadian businesses to some of the country’s largest employers and financial institutions.
It includes designing benefits strategies, advising employers, building and growing benefits businesses, working with insurers and other providers, developing new solutions, and seeing firsthand what separates high-performing benefits programs from average ones.
BenefitsConsultant.ca brings that experience together in one place—and makes it accessible to Canadian employers.
Our purpose
We believe better information creates better outcomes.
The benefits industry can be complicated.
Insurers have their perspective. Consultants and brokers have theirs. Providers have theirs.
Employers need a perspective of their own.
Our goal is to help you develop it.
That means understanding the economics behind your plan. Knowing how your results compare. Recognizing where providers create value—and where they don’t. Understanding what’s changing in the market. And knowing which questions to ask before making important decisions.
Because the better informed you are, the better positioned you are to negotiate, prioritize and make decisions for your organization and your people.
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What you’ll find here.
Insights
Practical perspectives on benefits strategy, plan design, cost management, governance, employee experience and the Canadian benefits market.
Benchmarks
Context to help you understand how your plan, costs and practices compare with other Canadian employers.
Industries
A closer look at benefits and retirement practices across Canada’s major industries—because what’s competitive for a technology company isn’t necessarily competitive for a manufacturer, financial institution or energy company.
The Benefits Brief
One useful idea about employee benefits every week—designed to be read in a few minutes and used in the real world.
Our point of view
We believe the best benefits programs aren’t necessarily the ones that spend the most. They’re the ones that make the smartest choices.
Every dollar invested in benefits should have a purpose. Every provider should create measurable value. Every plan should reflect the workforce it serves. And every employer should understand what they’re buying, why they’re buying it and whether it’s working.
Sometimes that means investing more.
Sometimes it means spending differently.
And sometimes it means challenging the status quo.