Employee Expectations for the Future Workplace

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Alison Salka, Ph.D.

Alison Salka joined LIMRA in 2012 and is responsible for driving the strategy and direction of its global research program. She oversees a team of more than 85 professionals in LIMRA’s Member Benefits and Research division who conduct benchmark studies, discovery research, and thought leadership designed to help companies better understand industry issues and trends. Salka previously led the retirement research and competitive intelligence team at Prudential, and was also a director of retirement research and business analytics at MassMutual. She has a Master’s degree from the College of William and Mary and Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.

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Deborah Lovich

Debbie Lovich is a Managing Director & Senior Partner in the Boston office of Boston Consulting Group and leads the firm's work on people strategy.

Debbie has spent the last 15 years of her nearly 30-year consulting career on driving leadership and culture changes with her clients who span industries and countries. Since the onset of COVID-19, Debbie has been leading BCG’s thinking on the future of work. She believes organizations must use this unique moment to fundamentally rethink what work is. She has also applied her expertise internally at BCG, where she led the development and rollout of the firm’s global predictability, teaming, and open communication (PTO) program, an initiative implemented to improve BCG's culture and employee work-life balance.

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Simone Schwemer

Simone is a core member of the Insurance and People & Organization practices at Boston Consulting Group, and she is in charge of people and organization for the German/Austrian insurance team.

Simone joined the firm in 2008. She works with insurance companies on key trends affecting the industry, with a focus on digitization, organization model transformations, and people-related topics, putting special emphasis on the impact of digitization on skill requirements and ways of working.