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Meet Your Employee Benefits Team
Local Employee Benefits Team
POLLY THOMAS
Engagement Leader and President, Kansas City
Polly is leading overall strategy development and population health initiatives. Polly is also responsible for
assisting in the design of an impactful wellbeing/wellness strategy, calculating return on investment,
identifying resources and more. Polly has 15 years of industry experience and worked for CBIZ the last 8
years.
Working with employers similar to VNAC, she has implemented countless unique initiatives to impact a
wide variety employer challenges. With a great deal of analytics expertise combined with practical experience in strategic
planning her dynamic skill set provides unparalleled results for clients.
816.945.5509
| pthomas@cbiz.comGREG CALLAHAN
Senior Benefits Consultant, Technology Consultant
Greg is responsible for strategy development, innovation, risk funding and financing, contractual and
renewal negotiations, marshalling resources and client relationship management. Greg began his career
as a client services intern in 1989.
Greg’s diverse background and experience within our organization allows him to leverage the right
resources for an engagement while coordinating large teams of specialized experts for the purpose of creating better
financial and non-financial outcomes for all stakeholders.
In addition to Greg’s in-depth analytical skills, he possesses extensive expertise in identifying and implementing custom
online enrollment and benefits technology solutions that maximize his clients’ administrative and enrollment efficiencies.
The breadth and depth of his third-party vendor relationships enable him to implement the right technology for
organizations of every size and budget.
816.945.5198
| gcallahan@cbiz.comMAGGIE RELEFORD
Senior Account Executive
Responsible for overseeing the performance of the engagement team, executing the strategy set by the
employer and consulting team members, reviewing financial and utilization data, assisting in renewal
and contractual negotiations, compliance issues and assisting and monitoring day-to-day client service
issues.
816.945.5242
| mreleford@cbiz.com“… Maggie Releford deliver(s) quality service all the time. The renewals are always well handled and strongly
negotiated on our behalf and Maggie does an excellent job delivering all of our benefits information in group
meetings as well as committee meetings. (She) really help(s) bring our benefits package together.”