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BLUE KC Tasked with providing health-care insurance for 1 million souls in this region, Blue KC boasts an environment focused on wellness and support for the whole person, with special attention on behavioral, physical and emotional health, and financial well-being. That starts with a highly competitive total rewards package, with employees eli gible for incentive plans that align their performance and achievement of company goals. From Day One, employees are eligible for health, dental and vision insurance. There is also coverage for life and acci dental death and dismemberment, and both health savings and flexible spending accounts. Other risk-management tools include voluntary group accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and prepaid legal coverage. To all of that, add coverage for short- and long-termdisability, CHILDREN’S MERCY KANSAS CITY At Children’s Mercy Kansas City, the stated vision is “to create a world of well-being for all children.” That doesn’t happen without creating a workplace of well-being for those tending their young charges. for more than 8,000 employees across 20 care sites in Missouri and Kansas, the Lean workplace culture is built upon five True North pillars: quality and safety, people, patient and family experience, delivery, and stewardship. And within the people pillar, the health system focuses on a culture that engages employees to be and perform their best. The Tuition Assistance Program, for examle, doles out more than $2.2 million a year, providing up to $5,250 per calendar year CREATIVE PLANNING If you haven’t been following the story of Creative Planning over the past 15 years, you’ve missed an opportunity to watch a large company’s culture being constructed from the ground up. CEO Peter Mallouk, who bought a boutique wealth-management firm in 2006, has turned it into a national powerhouse with nearly $135 billion in assets directly under management and more than $110 million through its acquisition of Lockton Retirement Services last year. Mallouk meets personally with every finalist for a job opening there, and that’s a lot of meetings: Creative Planning now boasts more than 1,200 employees nationwide. A team based approach to comprehensive wealth management pays off when employees earn company-paid trips for organizational success. The cam pus that opened in Overland Park in 2018 includes social spaces and ame CUSTOM TRUCK ONE SOURCE At every step from inception to its recent listing on the New York Stock Exchange, Custom Truck One Source has been defined by one enduring trait: Family. It had to be: 10 of the 12 Ross family siblings founded the company in a three-bay shop on Manchester Avenue 25 years ago. Since then, this manufacturer and supplier of vehicles used for infrastructure construction and repair has grown into a work force of nearly 2,000 employees in 37 locations across the U.S. and Canada. You can quite literally say the Ross family DNA is in Custom Truck. “Family and Custom Truck One Source have been inseparable since the beginning,” says CEO Fred Ross. “One of the reasons for our success is making sure that our culture remains intact as we rapidly

plus adoption benefits. Six weeks of paid paternal leave, 18 days of paid time off right out of the gate for new employees, and tuition reim bursement also provide support for that whole-person care package. To support employees’ philanthropy, there’s a paid day off each year to volunteer for a deserving cause. The 401(k) retirement plan includes both a pre-tax deferral option and a Roth deferral option. Blue KC matches 50 percent of the first 10 percent contributed to the 401(k) by the employee, and also makes discretionary contributions based on company performance. There’s free on-site parking, always a consideration for a Downtown business, and to help with the physical well-being, employees have use of the free 24/7 on-site fitness center. Access to personal trainers is provided, and employees can opt for walking workstations. There’s even on-site massage available. for an employee’s education expenses. Not surprisingly with a health-care provider, medical coverage picks up 100 percent of the cost of preventative care, and there are medical discounts for employees’ children, whether they are carried on the plan or not. Even retired employees and spouses are covered. Wellness and fitness centers areon-site, and staffmembers canaccessmore than 30,000 local and national services and products at discounted prices. A robust Employee Assistance Program provides 24/7 confidential counseling, financial guidance, legal support, and work-life solutions. Those saving for retirement can tap into the hospital-funded plan and a tax-deferred annuity plan with a 3 percent company match after 90 days of employment. nities to encourage gathering, including an on-site café and patios, where you can find beanbag tournaments or employee baby showers in progress. On the financial side, a highly competitive compensation structure took on new overtones last year when Mallouk began opening up ownership shares with equity opportunities for a portion of the staff. There’s also the company’s 401(k) retirement plan with its company match on a portion of each employee’s contributions. Staff well-being is addressed with a comprehensive suite of insurance tools, including health, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage. And there’s no shortage of staff outings, from Royals games to the American Royal barbecue, to build cohesive ness. The icing on all that is the ability to work for a firm that shares the wealth, an important consideration for younger members of the workforce who want their work to have meaning beyond the paycheck. grow.” Never has that undertaking been as important as over the past year, following a $1.475-billion merger with Nesco Holdings. Since then, and with the 25 percent bump in the employee head count, Ross and the teamhave put in programs to help the growing corporate fam ily achieve individual and organizational goals. To help develop talent, Custom Truck University offers tuition reimbursement toward any type of degree, certification, or training that prepares or advances an employee’s skills for any job at the company. In-house, CTU has thou sands of on-demand courses and learning tracks for both professional and personal development. Employees find competitive health-care coverage with plans that include dental, vision, and life insurance, as well as short- and long-term disability coverage.

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