HUB + DELTA DENTAL
Understanding Your Needs.
Delta Dental is a leader in oral health, with a mission-driven culture and a commitment to delivering exceptional benefits to members nationwide. As one of the most trusted names in dental coverage, Delta Dental supports millions of individuals and thousands of employers with innovative plan designs, provider choice, and customer-first service.
Supporting healthy smiles requires more than great plans. It requires a broker partner who understands the evolving demands of employee benefits. From claims trends and contribution strategies to compliance requirements and member engagement, navigating the benefits landscape takes insight, agility, and accountability. We help you protect your people, control your costs, and simplify administration, so your team can stay focused on delivering world-class benefits that reflect your brand and values.
What This Page Is For:
This webpage is an example of how we market your organization to insurance carriers. At HUB, we build tailored underwriting pages to give carriers a clear understanding of your business, culture, and benefits philosophy.
By highlighting your mission, workforce structure, and goals for your employee benefits program, we equip underwriters with the context they need to quote accurately and competitively. More importantly, it helps us create stronger engagement with carriers. So we can negotiate from a place of insight and partnership, ultimately driving better pricing, better coverage, and a benefits package that reflects your values as an employer.
Employee Benefits Strategy at Delta Dental
As one of the nation’s leading dental benefits providers, Delta Dental is known for advancing oral health, expanding access to care, and delivering exceptional service to members, providers, and partners. That same focus on wellbeing and trust extends to Delta Dental’s role as an employer. Where taking care of your own team is just as important as the millions you serve.
From claims processing centers to field offices and remote support teams, Delta Dental’s diverse workforce brings expertise, compassion, and a shared mission to the table. Supporting that mission starts with an employee benefits program that reflects your values, meets evolving workforce expectations, and supports long-term retention.
Key areas of focus include:
Comprehensive, Inclusive Plan Design
Delta Dental is committed to offering benefits that support the full spectrum of employee needs. From health and financial wellness to family support and mental health resources. A thoughtful plan design approach helps ensure equitable access and meaningful value across all employee demographics.
Strategic Cost Management
As a benefits provider yourself, you understand the balance between controlling costs and delivering high-value coverage. We work with employers like Delta Dental to analyze claims data, assess contribution strategies, and implement programs that promote health while managing long-term trend risk.
Compliance and Risk Mitigation
From ACA requirements to ERISA documentation, your benefits program operates within a complex regulatory environment. We help streamline compliance through proactive audits, reporting support, and legislative updates. Reducing risk and protecting your organization.
Employee Engagement and Communication
Great benefits only matter if employees understand and use them. We bring tools and strategies that help HR teams drive awareness and improve enrollment, from digital campaigns and benefit guides to 1-on-1 support during open enrollment and life events.
Delta Dental has built a reputation for reliability, trust, and care. Your employee benefits program should reflect that same standard. With the right broker partnership, you can strengthen your benefits offering, support your people, and deliver on your mission, inside and out.
Employee Benefits with Strategy at the Core
At Delta Dental, delivering exceptional coverage isn’t just a mission, it’s an identity. That same commitment to care, innovation, and service extends to how you support your own employees. From claims processors and provider relations to executives and remote staff, your workforce powers a national leader in oral health, and they deserve a benefits strategy that reflects that responsibility.
Across recruitment, retention, and wellbeing, Delta Dental understands that employee benefits are a strategic lever, not just a line item. Every plan, program, and communication carries the potential to strengthen your culture and reinforce your purpose.
Key strategies include:
Data-Driven Plan Optimization
Benefits are most impactful when they align with employee needs and organizational goals. We support employers like Delta Dental by leveraging analytics to track plan performance, identify cost drivers, and recommend targeted enhancements that create value for both the business and the team.
Compliance and Governance Discipline
As a benefits administrator and employer, you operate under heightened scrutiny. From 5500 filings to nondiscrimination testing and ERISA oversight, we help you maintain full compliance while minimizing administrative burden and exposure.
Customized Enrollment and Education Tools
Your team is diverse in roles, locations, and communication styles. We build multi-channel engagement strategies, digital, print, and in-person to ensure every employee understands their benefits and how to use them, from open enrollment to ongoing support.
Wellbeing and Culture Alignment
Great benefits go beyond coverage. They support culture, morale, and productivity. We help connect your plans with broader wellbeing initiatives, such as mental health support, financial literacy, and DEI-sensitive plan design.
Strategic Partner Collaboration
With vendor relationships already in place across multiple markets, Delta Dental benefits from working with a broker who understands how to align stakeholders, simplify processes, and drive efficiency across carriers and platforms.
With the right broker relationship, Delta Dental can continue to lead from within. Offering an employee experience that reflects the same care and quality you bring to your members nationwide. Let’s build a benefits program that delivers.
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Delta Dental represents the kind of mission-driven, well-governed organization that benefits underwriters value.
As a national leader in dental coverage with a legacy of improving access to care, Delta Dental operates with purpose, consistency, and a deep commitment to its employees and the communities it serves.
From a strong corporate governance structure to thoughtful benefits strategy and employee engagement initiatives, Delta Dental brings the kind of operational discipline and cultural alignment that signals long-term stability.
With a workforce rooted in healthcare service, data operations, and customer care, Delta Dental is intentional about offering competitive, inclusive benefits that support recruitment, retention, and overall wellbeing.
Partnering with Delta Dental is a strong underwriting opportunity. Offering alignment with a respected, mission-focused organization that takes care of its people and plans for the future
Why We Are the Best Fit for Delta Dental
Delta Dental deserves a broker who:
Understands the Complexity of Benefits
We specialize in employee benefits for mission-driven organizations. We understand the challenges you face. From balancing cost control and compliance to supporting a diverse workforce and aligning benefits with organizational values.
Delivers Responsive, Strategic Support
Our team is engaged, accessible, and built to support busy HR and finance leaders. Whether it’s open enrollment, plan design, or claims escalations, we respond quickly, provide clear guidance, and stay a step ahead of what’s coming next.
Builds Tailored, High-Performing Benefit Programs
You don’t offer off-the-shelf benefits to your clients, and we won’t offer them to you. We design custom strategies based on your goals, employee needs, and long-term financial outlook. That includes benchmarking, network analysis, and wellness integration.
Advocates for You with Carriers and Partners
We’re your voice in the marketplace. From negotiating renewals and managing vendors to navigating compliance and resolving issues, we represent your interests with diligence and transparency, like an extension of your team.
You deserve a broker who understands the business of benefits, the expectations of a top-tier employer, and what it takes to support a workforce that supports millions. HUB International is the right fit for Delta Dental.
Your HUB Team
Lauren Fortin
Employee Benefits Advisor
Following six years on the management and HR side of private employers, Lauren started her career in the insurance industry with the specific goal of making insurance more palatable, affordable, and consumer-friendly for her clients. While she has worked with employers of all industries, ranging from 50-5,000 employees, she specializes in working with "gray-collar" employers that have a blended demographic of front-line, hourly-wage employees and specialty service/administration, salaried employees. This has led her to work with primarily nonprofits, manufacturing, technology, and healthcare companies. These groups often require unique education, communication, service, and funding solutions, and Lauren loves bringing them innovation. In her spare time, Lauren enjoys spending time with her extensive family, two children, running, or cooking something delicious.
As an employee benefits advisor, Lauren’s responsibilities include the development of short and long-term client employee benefits goals to increase cost efficiencies, improvement of the employer and employee benefit service experience, vendor auditing and management, usage of data analytics find innovative healthcare funding and delivery strategies, and the customization of education and communication initiatives to improve enrollment and employee satisfaction.
Lauren’s areas of expertise: • employee health plan strategies, self-funded or fully-insured • blended demographic groups • nonprofits, manufacturing,
Themba Dayton
Advisor, Employee Benefits
Themba has 25+ years of experience in the employee benefits field with over half of that time spent on the broker side of the industry. The strength of his skills and experience lies in the technical and detail areas of employee benefits, having spent significant time analyzing employee benefit packages. In addition, he has spent an extensive and rewarding segment of his career presenting benefit plan details to prospects in finalist presentations with the goal of earning the business for our organization.
While not limited by a specific group size or industry, he joined the Non-Profit Specialty vertical at HUB due to his experience working for non-profit organizations. His technical strength lies with larger employers that are either self-funded or considering their funding options in order to have more control over their finances, benefit plans, and cost containment options. Themba also brings a superior level of knowledge and experience to employee benefits through the perspective of a diversity, equity, and inclusion practitioner. In 2022 Themba became a founder in the creation of a DEI consulting firm in the Pacific Northwest region with a certificate in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from Cornell University with the goal to positively impact his community. He is also very excited about the extensive list of tools, resources and business partners that HUB is able to utilize to benefit clients and prospects.
Themba’s role as an Adviser at Hub is acquiring new business and retaining in-force clients as assigned. He will be a proactive networker with extensive contacts in both the human resources and financial network of employer groups, while also maintaining a thorough understanding.