Optimal Benefits Professionals

12/24/2025

As the year draws to a close, the entire team at OBP wants to pause and extend our deepest gratitude.
- To our valued clients – thank you for your trust, collaboration, and the opportunity to support your employee benefits strategies throughout 2025. Your partnership inspires us every day.
- To our carrier and vendor partners – thank you for your responsiveness, innovation, and shared commitment to delivering exceptional solutions for the people we serve.
-To the broader HR and benefits community – thank you for the knowledge-sharing, referrals, and connections that make this work so rewarding.

Wishing you and your families a joyful holiday season filled with rest, connection, and peace. We look forward to continuing our work together in 2026.Warmest regards,
The OBP Team

05/01/2024

Happy Small Business Week! Small businesses drive our local economy – creating strong careers for hardworking Americans, delivering critical services to our communities, and allowing everyday folks to pursue their dreams.

We’re proud to celebrate all, including our small business!

12/19/2023

11/12/2021

It's that time of year, open enrollment for many employers! If you are on the HR or Admin side, you will get a much needed laugh if you watch this short video! Happy open enrollment!

09/09/2020

Offered to OBP Clients through our partnership with ThinkHR:
Confidential help for employees is relevant to businesses of all sizes. Now, similar to large corporations that have anonymous reporting programs/vendors or "Ombudsman" programs, smaller businesses have an economical option via OBP's partnership with ThinkHR. An important risk mitigation strategy to support employees reporting harassment, discrimination or other workplace issues.

03/27/2020

OBP is not just a reputable employee benefits advisory firm, we offer a plethora of valuable resources and relationships to our clients. One example, ThinkHR is offered to all OBP clients at no cost. With Covid-19 impacting virtually every business and recent legislation that directly impacts employers under 500 employees (Families First Coronavirus Act), business owners and HR professionals can rest assured that OBP and our partners are here to provide expert guidance. This ThinkHR testimonial video highlights a few examples of expert HR guidance providing tremendous value!

Why do you love ThinkHR? We want to hear from you. Just shoot a quick video with your phone and send it our way!

03/02/2020

More reasons for businesses to have "telework" policies, even if only for rare events like the current Coronavirus (COVID-19 virus) circumstances. If your business had not previously addressed these policies and viable technologies prior to the recent news, the time is now! Furthermore, most HR experts would suggest you have, very likely, already lost talent if no such policies already exist.

As cpronavirus spreads around the globe, businesses in the U.S. should plan for "social distancing," such as canceling meetings and conferences and arranging for employees to work from home.

11/22/2019

Great views of the stormy weather during a new OBP client’s open enrollment meeting this afternoon! The best views possible in Mesa, Arizona.

10/02/2019

OBP is proud to support the Fall 2019 Employment Law Update! The featured speakers, Joe Clees (Ogletree Deakins) and John Doran (Sherman Howard), are both highly respected employment law Attorneys whom bring humor and storytelling approaches that always receive rave reviews!!

09/25/2019

Important Update - Department of Labor Announces Final Rule to Update Overtime Regulations. It's hard to believe it has been three years since the last overtime regulations were proposed; this time it seems that these rules will, likely, stand. Time for impacted employers to prepare!

Update: Department of Labor Announces Final Rule to Update Overtime Regulations On September 24, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced a final rule to update and revise Fair...

09/06/2019

Our very own Brent Tregaskes was nominated for the prestigious 2019 Arizona SHRM Judith Krebs, PHR Memorial Volunteer of the Year Award! Congrats Brent Tregaskes as we know how passionate you are about giving back to the Human Resources profession!!

07/26/2019