Testimonials

Empowering Brokers / Clients Who Wish to Enhance the Total Benefits Reward Package

I have worked directly with Holly Overdyke for over 15 years, and during that time, she’s provided meaningful consultation for over 100 of my clients and prospects.

… Holly’s provided meaningful consultation for over 100 of my clients and prospects.

More recently, I’ve approached her for her expertise in Voluntary Benefits (VB) because more and more of my clients are using VB’s to help supplement their High Deductible Health Plans (HDHPs), bolster their benefits offering to retain and recruit key talent, and even use VB’s as strategic solutions for lowering their worker’s compensation MOD rate, reducing the number of 401k loans taken out due to unexpected high medical bills, and subsidizing the cost of employee education and engagement initiatives.

Holly’s tenure in the insurance industry, outside-of-the-box thinking, and unique perspective have resulted in an overall long-term savings to clients and a more robust benefits package for sought-after talent, all without costing anything to my clients or impacting my own paycheck! Her expertise and consultation have led to prospective client/employer introductions, helped me to win existing clients, and offer a competitive edge.

It is without hesitation that I recommend Holly and her Activ8 team to every broker and employer who needs advice when it comes to any ancillary line of coverage, not only VB! She’s also extremely knowledgeable when it comes to evaluating HR technology/Benefit Administration and developing a meaningful RFP for benefits and the technology that supports them.

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REBECCA BERNIER
Benefits Consultant • USI

I have worked with Holly Overdyke for well over 15 years! She has always been a reliable source of information for me and my clients. Now in a consultant role at Active8 Benefits, Holly and her team continue to surpass all expectations. When we have an employer interested in Voluntary Benefits, we simply hand it over to Holly and her team and they go to work. Active8 Benefits will request quotes, communicates options with carriers, review plan documents/spreadsheet and formally proposes options all on our behalf! Once a carrier and plan is chosen, they will assist in selecting an enrollment firm that fits the culture not only of your organization, but that of the employer and its employees as well. Making sure that all issues are addressed throughout the entire process!

Holly and her team continue to surpass all expectations.

I cannot say enough good things about Holly and Activ8 Benefits and all they have done for me and my benefits practice. Having an expert in the field that I can count on is an invaluable resource that I could not do without! I don’t know that my agency would even be in the Voluntary Benefits space at all if not for Holly and her excellent team.

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CHUCK SHAW
Vice President • Garner & Glover Company

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Greg Straka
Executive Vice President
Apogee Financial Partners

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Holly on several of my business clients’ company plans, and she has been a tremendous resource. She’s able to maneuver through the complexities of group benefits with ease and guide my clients through the decision-making process in an easy to understand way. I highly recommend her.

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Bill Rasmussen
Alliant Employee Benefits
Vice President, Lead Consultant

I have been engaged with Activ8 Benefits Consulting for the past 3 years, and Holly is one of my most trusted partners. Specifically, I have worked with Holly in various collaborations for the past 15 years. Her expertise and experience can be counted on in relationship to Voluntary Benefit strategies, employee engagement, communication, and worksite marketing. I have found Activ8 to be engaged, detail-oriented, professional, and incredibly responsive.

One of the biggest positives of my partnership with Activ8, is the freedom and flexibility my staff has to focus on other areas of our business, particularly since our organization is heavily focused on healthcare strategies and outcomes. We can trust Holly to act on our behalf as we would one of our employees, delivering the best possible strategy and outcome for our clients related to Voluntary Benefits.

I highly recommend Activ8 as a partner you can count on for your clients.

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Harry Cain
Sr. Principal, Voluntary Benefits Consulting Leader

I can’t say enough positive things about Holly’s knowledge and professionalism. Voluntary Benefits can be a complicated matter, but her expertise along the way made it a seamless process.

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Pete Smith
Epic
Consultant, Vice President and Principal

Holly works tirelessly for both you and your client, delivering the best in class for each product. Her finished, professional RFP work makes it very easy to present detailed information to the client.

You can also turn over open enrollment to her and be assured it is handled with no pressure on the employees. The education she provides is second to none.

After having worked with Holly on several client projects, she is my “go to expert” for Voluntary Benefits.

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Brent Simmons
Regional Sales Director
Voluntary Benefits

Carving out a niche in the field of employee benefits takes a lot of vision and focus. Holly exudes these qualities which helps her partners and clients maximize understanding, and in turn, appreciation for and participation in all employee benefits. Her comprehensive carrier and platform evaluations routinely lead to a tailor-made fit for employers, carriers, and consultants alike. Achieving high levels of engagement is a reflection of the strategy, meticulous planning, communication and execution that Holly brings to the table. It is rewarding to have a skilled and invested partner like Holly joining me every step of the way.

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Darrell Eidson
President
Worksite Benefit Services, Inc.

As the owner of a benefit enrollment services company I look for broker partners who understand the voluntary benefits industry and the services that can be offered to clients by combining the services of an enrollment company and voluntary benefits and teaching employers the buying power they have to bring quality solutions and service that have a meaningful impact on the employees and the employer. I have worked with Holly and her team for 12 years and she definitely meets all of our standards as a premier partner! If you are looking to partner with an industry leader who is extremely knowledgeable about the voluntary benefits industry I highly recommend Holly Overdyke and her team!

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Daniel J. Campbell
Managing Partner
Campbell Petrie, Inc.

Holly and the team at Activ8 helped our firm accomplish an extremely difficult enrollment involving a NYC based grocery food store with 20 different locations and multiple languages. The complexity of this enrollment required a project manager to coordinate with the carriers, technology vendors, and enrollment firms and this isn’t a role that we normally staff. Relying on Holly and her team to integrate with our account management team and the client, ensured a successful enrollment for the client and optimized the use of our time as a benefits consultant.

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Carli Meyer
CEO & Founder
RevTech Consulting

Holly Brown-Overdyke has so many amazing talents. She has the ability to service her clients in a very unique way. Holly has a deep understanding of the benefits market but still has an insatiable appetite to continue to learn. Through learning and in practice she has created a vast network. Holly leverages very strategically her knowledge as well as her expansive network to create and drive a solution for her clients. From our perspective, we are amazed at her knowledge in HR and Benefit Technology but she always knows when to engage her partners to influence the best results and outcomes for her clients.

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Robin Kiser
Senior Account Executive
Paylocity

Holly Overdyke with Activ8 has assisted many of my clients with her extensive knowledge of the benefits world and its role in HR. She has helped to improve their open enrollment process and educated the HR teams around benefit solutions for their companies. This has been key in helping to retain employees as well as negotiating technology credits for our mutual clients from the insurance carriers. Holly’s unique strategy has also allowed her to be an additional arm to my benefit broker partners– ensuring the transition period goes smoothly. I would highly recommend any HR leader or benefit broker to hire Activ8 to help fill the gaps between the medical industry and their business!

I have been engaged with ActiV8 Consulting for the past 18 months and Holly is one of my most trusted partners. She has become a go to resource for my team and our clients to solve the most complex problems surrounding employee engagement, communication and worksite marketing. The entire ActiV8 team is engaged, detail oriented, professional and incredibly responsive. As a middle market firm in Atlanta we looked at the costs to recruit, hire and train a team member who could help our clients focus on these areas and “build a moat” around our business. Instead, we found that by partnering with Holly we could get a better result, increase our revenues and protect our clients.

Holly has become a go to resource for my team and our clients.

The results speak for themselves, 20+ engagements, a six-figure increase in revenue, 100% retention and no complaints from the customer. The best part is the freedom my staff has to focus on other areas of our business. As a broker at a middle-market regional firm that doesn’t have the ability to hire a full time practice lead, the ActiV8 team has exceeded our expectations as a partner. I would highly recommend ActiV8 as a partner for your firm.

John A.

Producer/Broker/Consultant
Atlanta, Georgia