Provider-Guided, Patient First: The Future of Virtual Care with MD Live by Evernorth

Contributed by MD Live by Evernorth

Virtual care has evolved from a nice-to-have to a strategic imperative. And now the future demands more: care that’s integrated, personalized, and provider guided. Explore how you can set yourself up to win in this new era of virtual care, and how our partners at MD Live by Evernorth deliver high-quality, personalized care at scale.

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About MD Live by Evernorth

MD Live by Evernorth is a leading provider of virtual health care services in the U.S. with more than 60 million members nationwide. We work with our health plan, health system, and self-insured employer partners to give patients convenient and affordable access to the highest quality medical and behavioral health care, 24/7, from the comfort and safety of their homes.

With a vision and passion for changing health care for the better, we are working to improve the patient experience, close the patient-provider accessibility gap, and bring providers opportunities to augment the services they currently offer. We imagine a new end-to-end care experience to complement – not replace – the way customers and patients interact with their existing providers to achieve:

• Earlier identification and diagnosis of critical care needs
• Faster and more seamless referrals to high-performing providers, including specialists and behavioral health
• More convenient access to appropriate, affordable sites of service, and pharmaceutical fulfillment

To learn more, visit mdlive.com.

#MillenniumLive: Not Just National: How Local Grocers Are Winning Retail Media with Quad

Regional grocers are emerging as powerful players in the retail media revolution—and they’re doing it by tapping into their physical footprints, community ties, and a “fortune of data.”

In this episode of Millennium Live, Ameet Srivastava from Quad joins us to explore how regional retailers are transforming the in-store experience with digital innovation, hyper-localized advertising, and smarter data strategies. From digital shelf messaging to real-world case studies like Vallarta Supermarkets, we dive into what’s working—and what’s next—for retail media at the local level.

Topics include:

How in-store tech is reshaping shopper behavior
Why regional grocers are attracting national CPG attention
The impact of cookie deprecation on retail media networks
Real-world success stories from Quad’s In-Store Connect platform
Tips for grocers and brands building a retail media strategy

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About Quad

Quad (NYSE: QUAD) is a global marketing experience company that helps brands make direct consumer connections, from household to in-store to online. Supported by state-of-the-art technology and data-driven intelligence, Quad uses its suite of media, creative and production solutions to streamline the complexities of marketing and remove friction from wherever it occurs in the marketing journey. Quad tailors its uniquely flexible, scalable and connected solutions to clients’ objectives, driving cost efficiencies, improving speed to market, strengthening marketing effectiveness, and delivering value on client investments.

Quad employs approximately 13,000 people in 14 countries and serves approximately 2,700 clients including industry leading blue-chip companies that serve both businesses and consumers in multiple industry verticals, with a particular focus on commerce, including retail, consumer packaged goods, and direct-to-consumer; financial services; and health. Quad is ranked as the 14th largest agency company in the U.S. by Ad Age (2023), and the second-largest commercial printer in North America, according to Printing Impressions (2023).

For more information about Quad, including its commitment to ongoing innovation, culture and sustainable impact, visit www.quad.com

#MillenniumLive: The Journey Beyond the EAP: Building a Culture of Daily Mental Health Support with Journey

On this episode of Millennium Live, we’re tackling one of the most pressing and rapidly evolving topics in the modern workplace: Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs)—and why traditional models are no longer meeting the needs of today’s workforce. Joining the pod is Stephen Sokoler, Founder of Journey, a first-of-its-kind Proactive EAP built to support every employee, every day. Journey combines a high-engagement digital platform with personalized service to help employees access support before challenges become crises. Stephen shares why conventional EAPs fall short, how Journey is reimagining mental health support, and what it takes to foster a culture where employees feel safe and empowered to prioritize their well-being. We’ll explore the future of workplace mental health, boosting benefit engagement, and the power of proactive care in building healthier, more resilient teams.

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About Journey

Journey is the leading preventative mental health solution for modern companies. Rooted in live group learning, peer support and proactive health, Journey provides the most engaging, cost-effective way to reduce turnover, tackle burnout, and help employees live happier, healthier lives.

To learn more, visit journey.live

#MillenniumLive: Right Care, Right Place: Reimagining ED Care Pathways for Behavioral Health Patients with Iris Telehealth

And we’re back! In this episode of Millennium Live, we’re joined by Laura Bauer, Vice President of Strategy at Iris Telehealth, to explore a pressing challenge facing today’s health systems: how to reimagine emergency department (ED) care pathways for behavioral health patients. Laura brings deep experience from her years in health system strategy to unpack why behavioral health is one of the most critical—and complex—pressure points in care delivery today. She shares how telebehavioral health is quietly transforming outcomes by helping patients receive the right care in the right place, reducing unnecessary ED visits, hospital admissions, and long-term costs. Key Topics Include:

Why EDs have become the default front door for behavioral health

How to shift from reactive to proactive care models

The ROI of investing in behavioral health pathways

Real-world examples of innovation—and impact

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About Iris Telehealth

Iris Telehealth was founded with the goal of creating a more patient-friendly telemedicine company that is able to quickly adapt to an organization’s needs. We are a fast-growing company with access to clinicians licensed in most states conducive to telemedicine. We have earned a reputation for having outstanding customer service and the ability to establish a customized telemedicine program without any hassle. Our clinicians have expertise in delivering quality telepsychiatry services and we value building strong professional relationship with our partners and their staff. We hold our team to the highest clinical and ethical standards and always focus on doing what is right for each and every individual we help treat. Iris believes that everyone deserves access to mental health services – and we are proud to help provide this care wherever it is needed!

To learn more, visit iristelehealth.com

#MillenniumLive: Redefining ROI in Critical Care: How Etiometry Is Powering Safer, Smarter Hospitals

Welcome back to Millennium Live, where we bring you the innovators, leaders, and disruptors transforming the digital enterprise and for this episode in particular, shaping the future of healthcare. We’re diving into the high-stakes world of hospital decision-making — where data, and safety, and efficiency all converge. Our guest is Howard Brick, Chief Business Officer at Etiometry — a company on a mission to transform critical care and help hospitals deliver safer, more standardized, and more cost-effective care without losing sight of the individual patient. Howard shares how Etiometry fits into a CMO’s enterprise-wide strategy, the outcomes hospitals are seeing, and why ROI is no longer just a financial metric — it’s about patient lives and provider bandwidth. We’ll also look ahead at where Etiometry is going next, from innovation to integration. Additional Key Topics: – What problem is Etiometry solving for hospitals and health systems today? – How can technology drive quality, safety, and clinical transformation at scale? – And how is Etiometry using AI in a way that clinicians actually trust?

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About Etiometry

Founded in 2010, Etiometry is the leader in clinical decision-support software designed to help clinicians in the intensive care setting make data-based decisions regarding their patients’ care and treatment. The company’s technologies provide valuable clinical insight and analysis to support early recognition of subtle changes in patients’ conditions to avoid complications and speed recovery.

Etiometry has nine FDA clearances and four Health Canada approvals and CE markings. Etiometry is utilized by some of the world’s top academic medical centers as well as leading children’s hospitals ranked by US News and World Report and Newsweek. Etiometry is committed to improving patient outcomes, increasing clinical efficiency, and lowering the cost of care through the more effective use of data.

The Etiometry Platform is the only critical care software solution that reveals deep insights into patient physiology, helping critical care teams deliver standardized and individualized care – and provides the ability to automate care escalation and de-escalation decisions. It is designed to facilitate the use of all available data to support the anticipation and management of the dynamic condition of patients requiring intensive care.

To learn more, visit etiometry.com

Alicia Tillman, Chief Marketing Officer at Delta Air Lines Keynotes Our Transformational CMO Assembly on October 29-30 in Atlanta!

The Millennium Alliance is excited to announce that Alicia Tillman, Chief Marketing Officer at Delta Air Lines, will keynote our Transformational CMO Assembly on October 29-30 at The JW Marriott in Atlanta!

Interested in joining this Assembly? Click here to request an invite.

About Alicia Tillman

Alicia is a dynamic C-suite leader with more than 25 years of experience in global marketing, sales, customer success, strategy, operations, and digital transformation in public and private companies, with proven success optimizing marketing’s role in the commercial achievements of businesses, including SAP where she restructured the entire marketing organization and built an ecosystem of partners and cultural influencers to scale the brand. Alicia led SAP to become one of the 20 most valuable brands in the world with its brand value increasing more than $18.5 billion under her leadership.   With a unique mix of high-level B2B and B2C marketing and operating executive expertise and board governance, she is an agile innovator with a track record as an inspiring leader who champions her teams, leading brands through incredible periods of marketplace volatility and change, including a global pandemic. As a testament to her success, Alicia is a five-time Forbes Most Influential CMO in the World recipient, and in 2025 was inducted into the Forbes Hall of Fame.

Alicia leads with purpose and enjoys creating teams of top talent from diverse backgrounds and developing strategies that connect people and the world to make positive social change happen. She believes Delta’s people and its culture are Delta’s greatest assets, and she welcomes opportunities to mentor young talent and share #lessonslearned.

Alicia is a current board director for RainFocus, a leading event marketing technology company. She previously served as a board director and member of the nominating and governance committee for Gates Industrial Corporation, a leader in industrial and commercial manufacturing. She also served as a board trustee and chairperson of the education committee for The Hun School of Princeton.  Alicia has a BA in Marketing and Mass Communications from Lycoming College, where she focused on International Marketing, Public Relations, and Advertising. She is also a graduate of the prestigious Chief Marketing Officer program at The Kellogg School of Management. In May 2023, Alicia was awarded an honorary Doctorate Degree from her alma mater Lycoming College for her exemplary contributions to business and society.

Millennium Expands U.S. Headquarters Amid Rapid Growth and Record Demand

NEW YORK – Oct. 9, 2025 – The Millennium Alliance, an invitation-only organization for senior-level executives and business transformers, announced today plans to expand its U.S. headquarters in New York City, adding an additional 10,000 square feet of office space. The expansion brings Millennium’s total footprint in the US to more than 20,000 square feet across two full floors on Park Avenue South to accommodate its rapidly growing team and portfolio of executive-level engagement opportunities both via their in-person multi-day national Assemblies, Bespoke ABM focused dinners, and 1-day city programs for select clients. This is in addition to the rapidly growing digital products Millennium is offering.

“Our growth over the past several years has been extraordinary, and this expansion reflects the continued demand we’re seeing across our entire global portfolio,” said Alex Sobol, Co-Founder of The Millennium Alliance. “Having even more space will allow us to continue to hire more of the best and brightest NYC has to offer and better support our employees, members, and partners.”

The expansion follows a year of record-breaking attendance and engagement across Millennium’s portfolio of C-Suite Assemblies and Executive Dinners, which now span more than a dozen industries. This new space not only marks another milestone in Millennium’s growth but also reinforces their commitment to creating a dynamic, high-performance environment for the team. The company plans to complete build-out and workspace enhancements by the end of 2025. All of this would not be possible without the exceptional partnership we have with the team at CBRE led by EVP Taylor Scheinman, one of the best brokers in all of NYC.

To learn more about Millennium’s upcoming C-Suite programs, check out their packed calendar of assemblies and digital transformation online community.

For more information or to get in contact with The Millennium Alliance directly, contact
info@mill-all.com.

ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM ALLIANCE
The Millennium Alliance is a leading technology and business educational advisory firm with the sole mission of helping to transform the digital enterprise. Through our executive education platform, peer-to-peer learning model via our senior-level Assemblies, exclusive research projects conducted with Ivy League academic institutions, and our numerous digital properties, we have become a trusted source for real-world tangible learning and engagement opportunities for senior executives and their technology partners.

This all started in 2014 when our founders, Alex Sobol & Rob Davis decided to create the most intimate, high-level & exclusive in-person and online think tank for leaders in a wide variety of industries within both the private and public sectors: The Millennium Alliance. Since its founding, Millennium has built a strong reputation nationwide, now with thousands of engaged Members, and was previously featured on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in addition to being included once again for the year 2024. The Millennium Alliance is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan and has European operations in Central City London.

Smarter Finance with AI: From Strategy to Execution with Nominal

Contributed by Nominal

Our partners at Nominal’s four-part masterclass helps finance professionals move beyond spreadsheets and manual processes to build intelligent, AI-enabled operations. Drawing from real examples and hands on exercises, their masterclass gives participants the tools to spot hidden inefficiencies, design smart workflows with AI agents, and shift their focus from routine tasks to strategic analysis.

Over the course of the program, participants learn how to eliminate repetitive close and consolidation work, translate business rules into logic that intelligent agents can execute, and apply prompt-based techniques to improve accuracy and speed. They also see how AI can elevate their own role, from CFO, controller, or accountant by driving better decisions, faster reporting, and greater visibility across the finance function.

The masterclass ends with a hands-on certification that gives finance teams a clear, usable framework for applying AI and automation to make everyday processes faster, easier, and more reliable.

Register Today at No Cost! Finance professionals who complete the Nominal Masterclass gain not just knowledge, but a roadmap for turning AI into a real operational advantage.

About Nominal

Nominal is the agentic AI platform built for modern finance. Nominal helps finance teams automate financial consolidation, intercompany eliminations, reconciliations, and reporting across complex, multi-entity structures — without changing their GL or ERP setup. Their AI agents handle the work spreadsheets weren’t built for, from revenue and accrual workflows to period-end processes. Nominal integrates directly with your systems and is up and running in days — no engineering required.

To learn more, visit nominal.so.

Store-Specific Planograms for Modern Retail with Optimum Retailing

Contributed by Optimum Retailing

Real-time layouts tailored to each store and program.

Rolling out a promo? Planning peak? Don’t ship the same PDF to every store. With our partners at Optimum Retailing, retailers get dynamic, store-level planograms — updated as inventory moves, fixtures vary, and promotions change. Teams execute with confidence; shoppers find what they need faster.

See how it works here.

About Optimum Retailing

Closing the Execution Gap in Retail. Retailers face an execution gap: strategies developed at headquarters often falter at the store level due to disconnected processes, inventory fluctuations, and communication challenges. Optimum Retailing closes this gap with a comprehensive platform that gives HQ unmatched visibility and control across all locations while providing store teams the clarity to execute with precision and confidence. Powered by AI, our solution transforms visual merchandising strategies into store-specific planograms that dynamically adjust to real-time inventory, ensuring seamless compliance across every location. Store-level insights flow back to headquarters, informing future planning and optimizing shopability, customer engagement, and fixture performance. The result? Stronger execution. Smarter decisions. Greater profitability. Optimum Retailing. Smarter retail execution.

To learn more, visit optimumretailing.com.

50,000,000 Journal Entries: What Nominal Learned About Finance Operations

Contributed by Nominal

Finance operations are at a tipping point.

Manual work, scattered systems, and unpredictable close processes have long defined accounting teams, but the data tells a different story. After analyzing more than 50 million journal entries across 12 mid-market organizations and surveying finance leaders nationwide, Nominal uncovered patterns that fundamentally change how finance teams can work.

The findings are striking:

89% of all finance errors fall into 12 predictable patterns—patterns AI can spot instantly.
Manual processing averages 43 minutes longer per entry than AI—time teams could spend on higher-value work.
92% of finance leaders believe AI will be standard in accounting within 3 years, yet 50% still rely primarily on Excel for consolidation.

The future of finance operations isn’t about hiring more people or working longer hours. It’s about recognizing that most finance work is pattern recognition and AI excels at patterns.

Download the full report to see the data, the trends, and the roadmap for building a finance operation that moves faster and leads with confidence.

About Nominal

Our partners at Nominal are the agentic AI platform built for modern finance. Nominal helps finance teams automate financial consolidation, intercompany eliminations, reconciliations, and reporting across complex, multi-entity structures — without changing their GL or ERP setup. Their AI agents handle the work spreadsheets weren’t built for, from revenue and accrual workflows to period-end processes. Nominal integrates directly with your systems and is up and running in days — no engineering required.

To learn more, visit nominal.so.