2025 Small Business Benefits & Wellness Expo

Workforce Wellness Program (And How It Saved a Company $400,000+)

Discover how the Workforce Wellness Program bridges healthcare and workplace wellness to reduce costs, speed recovery, and improve employee outcomes. Dr. Clayton Dir shares how proactive physical therapy and collaborative care models create healthier teams and smarter spending for both employers and employees.

From Skin to Within: Creative Employee Wellness Solutions

Challenges small businesses face with providing options for wellness, options that matter to consumers. What LaserBeamerSkincare Offers, Partnership Options.

Health is Wealth: Why Group Benefits Are Good Business

Why are group benefits more important now than ever? Find out today! From the upcoming changes to the marketplace to the increase in medical costs, we'll touch on the biggest factors contributing to the importance of group benefits, why that is important to you as an employer, and what it means for your employees.

Everything You Want to Know About How a State PFML Program Works & Why It's Good for Kansas

Paid family and medical leave isn’t just good for workers—it’s good for business. This session explores how small employers can benefit from a state paid leave program, including improved employee retention, morale, and productivity. Participants will hear how a state paid leave program works and real examples from other states that have implemented it. Highlights from the session will include benefits to Kansas businesses.

The Effect of Business Ownership on Your Personal Financial Plan

How to avoid business regret by building wealth inside and outside of your business. Many owners rely on their business as their core source of future wealth, but too many become disappointed in the final sale price. Tapestry Planning can educate you and your employees on how to develop a successful business that supports your personal financial future.

Beyond Burnout: Regenerative Wellness for Sustainable Success

In a world where high performance often comes at the cost of personal health, this presentation explores a new approach to wellness — one that focuses on restoration rather than exhaustion.
Malary Pittz, a former law enforcement officer turned regenerative wellness advocate, shares how small, science-backed habits and innovative phototherapy technology can help the body recover from stress, restore energy, and perform at its best — sustainably.

Attendees will walk away with practical strategies for balancing nervous system health, supporting recovery, and implementing tools that help professionals, entrepreneurs, and high achievers thrive beyond burnout.

Pulse of the Purchaser

Why Your Pain Isn't Going Away: Root Causes & Real Answers

Discuss common underlying mechanisms of chronic pain, explore viable solutions for relief by addressing its root causes, and explain why typical treatments can fall short.

Childcare Benefits That Fit Your Workforce and Your Budget

Want to create a loyal customer base that will stick with you through thick and thin? The key lies not in WHAT you're selling or HOW you're selling it, but in the powerful reason behind your product or service. In this presentation, we'll explore the concept of WHY and how it can be used to inspire loyalty and devotion from your customers. Learn how to tap into the purpose and values behind your business to build a loyal community that shares your passion and will advocate for your brand.

We All Belong at the Finish Line

GOTR is more than a running program- it's a movement that transforms the lives of girls through confidence building, connection, and physical activity. We believe when our community, and businesses unite, that our impact multiplies. We invite you to learn more about GOTR, and how you can partner with us to create a stronger, more supportive community for youth. 

The Future is Functional: Healing the Whole Person

From Burnout to Balance

Feeling overwhelmed? Cruising toward burnout—or already smoldering there?

In this 30-minute interactive session, Liz will highlight some practical ways to prevent and heal from burnout while reconnecting with what truly fuels you. Together we’ll explore using core values as a compass for decision-making, setting boundaries that protect energy, and focusing on what is within our control. Through guided reflection, participants will leave with some strategies to restore balance, clarity, and joy in their personal and professional lives.

Pulse of the Purchaser

Discover what leading employers are thinking and doing to tackle rising healthcare costs. The 2025 Pulse of the Purchaser Survey reveals the latest innovations, and strategies shaping benefit design, transparency, and value in healthcare. Learn how employer/purchasers like you are driving ACCESS to high-quality healthCARE that is more AFFORDABLE for their work families.

Everything You Want to Know About How a State PFML Program Works & Why It's Good for Kansas

Paid family and medical leave isn’t just good for workers—it’s good for business. This session explores how small employers can benefit from a state paid leave program, including improved employee retention, morale, and productivity. Participants will hear how a state paid leave program works and real examples from other states that have implemented it. Highlights from the session will include benefits to Kansas businesses.

Last Will & Testament

Learn why simply having a "Last Will and Testament" doesn't help you to avoid probate.  Elder law attorney, Kristen Armstrong will discuss the estate planning documents necessary to avoid probate for the dead AND the living. Discussion includes Durable Powers of Attorneys, Wills, and Trusts. 

Business First Aid/CPR/Stop the Bleed

While you may have taken a First Aid class in the past, the point of this class is

to refamiliarize you with basic First Aid skills so you can effectively use them in an emergency situation.

The topics discussed:

• Bleeding – Direct Pressure, Wound Packing and Tourniquet Use
• Splinting – Upper and lower arms, pelvis, chest injury, upper and lower legs, ankles, knees
• CPR Compression Practice
• Patient Stabilization
• Patient Movement

Reimagining Healthcare Access: A Direct Primary Care Conversation

Join us for an insightful Direct Primary Care (DPC) Panel, a timely discussion on how healthcare access and affordability continue to evolve under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Featuring David Powell of David J. Powell & Associates and Christiane Smith of Focus Direct Primary Care, this panel brings together both business and healthcare perspectives to explore how DPC offers a practical and cost-effective alternative to traditional insurance models.

Learn how Direct Primary Care can support employee wellness, reduce overall healthcare costs, and empower small businesses to offer better care options. This crucial conversation, monitored by our Regional Director, Brandy Willett, is an important opportunity for employers, HR professionals, and individuals to gain valuable insight into sustainable healthcare solutions in today’s changing landscape.