Built from experience.
Designed for what comes next.
AveNew brings together decades of experience in employee health and wellness, workforce engagement, insurance, communications, public policy, and organizational strategy.
We created AveNew around a simple insight: even exceptional programs create limited value when people do not discover, understand, or use them.
Human expertise builds the ecosystem. Awespira activates it.
The problem was not access.
The problem was engagement.
Employers and institutions have spent decades expanding access to healthcare, wellness programs, benefits, technology, education, and employee resources.
Yet participation often remains low.
People are presented with multiple programs, portals, providers, and communications, then left to determine what applies to them and what action to take.
AveNew was created to close that gap.
We combine experienced human judgment with insurance capabilities, strategic consulting, and engagement technology to help organizations strengthen what they offer and increase how people participate.
One Company. Three Integrated Capabilities.
Barbara Maynard
Visionary Strategy • Workforce Strategy • Financial Strategy • Engagement Strategy
THE AVENEW ADVANTAGE
Practical Experience. Proven Results.
Great strategies don’t create results unless they’re successfully implemented.
We believe the strongest organizations align people, strategy, communications, and financial performance. That’s why every engagement begins with understanding your goals and is focused on delivering measurable organizational value.
AveNew combines decades of executive leadership across the public, private, nonprofit, insurance, and workforce sectors. Our consulting expertise is strengthened by AveNew Insurance Solutions and Awespira, allowing us to move beyond recommendations and help organizations assess needs, strengthen programs, improve engagement, and measure results.
We don’t deliver reports that sit on a shelf. We work alongside leadership teams to develop practical solutions, build stakeholder support, navigate organizational change, and turn strategy into action.
Whether you are improving workforce engagement, strengthening employee health and wellness programs, navigating stakeholder relationships, or leading transformational change, our focus is always the same:
Better outcomes for your people and your organization.
Rick Bender
Operational Strategy • Financial Services • Technology Innovation • Benefits Strategy
WHAT WE BELIEVE AT AVENEW
PEOPLE FIRST
Programs should be designed around real human needs, not institutional complexity.
ENGAGEMENT
MATTERS
Access has limited value unless people understand what is available and take action.
TECH SHOULD
SERVE PEOPLE
AI should make experiences more personal, useful, and measurable without turning people into products.