Lester is a career long innovator and disruptor in the human capital and employee benefits arena. Understanding that employers, and their advisers, needed something new, Lester founded Next Impact to support the education and expansion of innovative cost containment health benefit strategies later coined Transparent Health Benefits (THB).

Prior to entrepreneurship, Lester served as Chief Growth Officer for Willis’ Human Capital Practice, one of the largest insurance brokerages in the world. In this role, Lester led over 200 consultants in 40 + offices as part of a $350,000,000 practice. During a previous eight-year stint at Willis, Lester was a top five consultant nationally. Between assignments at Willis, Lester served as National Vice President of Sales for Healthstat, a leading provider of worksite/ nearsite clinics.

Lester received a BS in Risk Management & Insurance from Florida State University. He is a highly sought-after speaker and has spoken a National SHRM and RIMS conferences, industry events such as EBN, BenefitsPro, and the +You Powered Symposium and is a frequent article contributor to Industry publications. Lester launched his own podcast, Impact Healthcare, where he interviews innovators about the strategies that are impacting the health benefits industry. Additionally, in May of 2020, Lester’s mission-based story was featured in Forbes Magazine outlining his outlook on disrupting the current approach to employer-sponsored health benefits after his family suffered financial ruin because of medical expenses.