A proven process for the curious employer.
Years ago, in a book club led by a mentor, 4 Disciplines of Execution was read. The thesis stuck.
Every organization has a whirlwind — the daily noise that consumes attention — and growth depends on identifying the wildly important goals that sit above it. Covey called those goals lag measures. The outcomes you actually want.
But lag measures aren't where you intervene. To change the outcome, you have to zoom in on the lead measures — the specific, controllable inputs driving the result — and seize control of them.
Most employers are watching their healthcare costs rise every year without ever auditing the lead measures behind them. The plan renews. The premium goes up. Nobody can fully explain why. That's not a market problem. It's an execution problem.
Lane Advisory Group was founded to fix it.
Rising healthcare costs feel like a force employers can't get hold of. They can.
The system isn't broken because it's complicated. It's broken because employers buy plans without ever seeing where the money actually goes. Costs rise every year, and nobody can explain why — not the carrier, not the broker, not the renewal packet.
It takes three things to drive real change: a dissatisfaction with the current situation, a vision for a better future, and concrete next steps. Most employers LAG works with already have the first. The ASAP process delivers the rest.
Every year an employer renews a plan they don't understand is another year of overpriced imaging, mismanaged chronic conditions, and a pharmacy benefit quietly marking up your drugs.
The audit changes that. It shows the real drivers behind your claims. Once you see the data, you stop buying someone else's broken plan and start building your own — plugging in the right solutions for the actual problems driving your cost.
That's not a pitch. It's a process. And it starts with one conversation.
Four steps, executed in order. Each one earns the next.
End-to-end audit of your current dynamic, from stop-loss to pharmacy, and all voluntary benefits. We identify the lead measures driving your current outcome and surface them in the data.
With access to your dashboard, we prioritize, organize, and build a strategy tailored to your plan. Not a template. Not a renewal packet. A strategy built from your data, aligned to your goals.
If the strategy aligns with your goals, you apply it. We execute the plan changes, the point solutions, and the workflows that move the lead measures — the inputs that change the outcome.
The work doesn't end at execution. We move forward as your partner, monitoring the lead measures, refining the strategy, and holding the line on cost while improving outcomes — year after year.
Elijah began as an enrollment specialist at a boutique association-owned agency, sitting across from every employee on the roster — from the entry-level hire to the owner — at companies with 25 to 2,000 employees.
Two years in, he was promoted to Advisor — still doing one-on-one enrollments, now also advising employers on plan strategy. Two years after that, to Senior Manager, leading the agency's enrollment specialists and advisors. During that tenure, the agency was acquired by private equity. Four years later, Elijah was promoted to Producer and earned his REBC.
Shortly after, he moved to the world's largest privately owned firm, and served as a Relationship Manager for a year.
After a decade in benefits, Elijah founded Lane Advisory Group to do the work the way he believed it should be done: a proven process, executed with discipline and purpose.
I look forward to hearing your story. Here is a bit about me:
I am a Child of God. I am a Disciple of Christ. I am a father. I am a husband.
I love to be outdoors with family and friends. My favorite things to do are golf, fish, hunt, pickleball, and bike.
A random fact about me: I have a high school degree in engineering. I say that because I thought I would be an engineer — I love the complex. It attracts me like a moth to a flame. I have always been consistently curious.
I took that curiosity and applied it to the most broken system I could find, and now my purpose is to make the complex simple.
I am blessed to see butterfly effects frequently.