All Events
Commonwealth hosts and participates in a variety of programs to understand current challenges facing financially vulnerable Americans, share our research and insights, and pose equitable, scalable solutions. We facilitate dialogue through our own programming, including in-person and virtual events for industry partners and professionals from the fintech, nonprofit, policy, corporate, and financial sectors. Our executive team, content experts, and partners frequently lend their voices at industry conferences, convenings, and discussions.
Commonwealth’s webinars and speaking engagements provide an opportunity to discover new data, receive expert insights, and strategize for organizational success. View our upcoming and past events below.
Past Events
Welcome to FTT Embedded Finance & Super-Apps: Narrowing the Protection Gap
Embedded finance opens the door to the provision of relevant and affordable financial products, delivered at the point of need. Industry leaders will discuss how insurance, lending and payments product strategy should focus on consumers and how the resulting ecosystem will reduce financial exclusion, making way for improved wellbeing, education and access, delivered by the organisations consumers know and trust.
Bárbara Barthelemy Baroli, Senior Segment Analyst – Retail Consumers, Galicia Bank
Charvi Gandotra, Associate Director, Commonwealth
Gretel Friedman, VP, Partnership Development, Netspend
Bradley Leimer, Executive Director, Head of Fintech Partnerships, SMBC Group (Moderator)
Wellie Forum
Wellie is where professionals explore how Wellbeing and Benefits can foster Inclusion and Equity. Because organizations perform better when all their people, and their families, are well. We are non-commercial.
Please join us on Wednesday, November 16, 2022, at 1pm Eastern. Timothy Flacke, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Commonwealth, will talk about the clear connection between financial security and employee well-being, and share key facts about the economic roller coaster of 2020-2022. He’ll show the impact of unexpected household expenses, and highlight one of the most important ways that employers can help their employees: encouraging emergency savings.
We welcome everyone interested in Wellbeing, DEI, HR, Rewards, Communications, and other areas, across all industries. We meet online to share expert insights and practical experience, and learn together. We are non-commercial.
Democratizing Wealth Building to Help Close the Racial and Gender Gap
Commonwealth’s Timothy Flacke will speak on how we can ensure that the financial system, and opportunities to build wealth, are developed to meet the needs of people living on low and moderate incomes.
DEI and ACCESS Summit 2022
Commonwealth’s Charvi Gandotra will moderate the session, Increasing Financial Inclusion and Attracting New Members Through Prize-Incentivized Savings Accounts. Credit unions encourage members to save and Prize-Linked Savings Accounts are proven to be exceptionally effective in motivating account holders to build positive financial behaviors. This session will feature insight and research into how prizes motivate people to open accounts, start saving, and build savings habits.
The Economist Impact: Innovation@Work US 2022
Timothy Flacke, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Commonwealth will be presenting Commonwealth’s UPS case study and discussing financial security as a key component of employee wellbeing.
Financial Security: A Critical Component of Employee Wellbeing
Too many American workers, particularly those with hourly wages or low to moderate incomes, do not have a financial safety net, a reality that the pandemic shone a light on. Forward-thinking companies are intentionally developing HR benefits to improve worker financial security, and reduce the chronic anxiety and stress so many live with and carry into the workplace. This chronic distress associated with worrying about short-term finances is disruptive for employees and employers alike, resulting in lower productivity at work, which costs companies up to $250 billion per year.
This program will share financial wellness benefit strategies, including real-world examples of innovative emergency savings programs that enable workers to put aside a portion of their earnings to better manage week in week out. Additionally, we will discuss why liquid savings options provide a critical foundation upon which employees can build wealth.
Fresh Insights on Student Debt and Emergency Savings
Commonwealth’s Senior Innovation Manager Natalie Blain, will be a speaker at DCIIA’s upcoming virtual event, Fresh Insights on Student Debt and Emergency Savings on 9/29.
Boston Fintech Week
Commonwealth is hosting a session on Wednesday, September 28 at 1:30pm at CIC Boston as part of Boston Fintech Week. The session is focused on A Masterclass in Inclusive Product Design for Financial Security.
Participants:
Elizabeth Dobrska, Director of Strategic Partnerships and Engagement
Charvi Gandotra, Senior Strategy & Innovation Manager
Charles de la Cruz, Senior Innovation Manager
Nasdaq Purpose Week 2022
An expert discussion showcasing the Nasdaq Foundation’s “New Investor” initiative and examples of purpose in action, specifically focusing on investment literacy and/or wealth inequality.