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Insurance, Benefits, and Consulting With a Purpose
ARTICLESFind Your Solution
### Find Your Solution
### Supporting You and Your Staff With a Purpose
KBS exists for a single purpose, to make it easier for you to support the needs of your staff with comprehensive and easy-to-use insurance and benefits programs. From large public school systems to sprawling hospitals and everywhere in between, we have a solution for you.
### KBS Solutions
KBS is confident it can provide organizations big and small with the solutions they need to overcome the greatest of challenges and seize the most transformative of opportunities. Learn about the three ways we support our customers the KBS way.
### Insurance
The KBS insurance suite focuses on covering the entirety of your risk-management profile. Our unique education specific program offerings include property casualty, workers compensation, and student accident insurance. Our insurance suite offers competitive coverage for employers of all sizes while directly reinvesting in communities through our support of public schools.
### Benefits
The competitive nature of the modern job market demands that employers find unique and convenient ways to connect employees with benefits. The KBS Employee Benefits Solutions (EBS) were designed to do exactly that. Complete with customizable benefits, solutions that match your needs, an easy-to-use online portal, and enrollment support, EBS is benefits done the KBS way.
### Consulting
KBS consulting services focus on finding customized solutions to the unique opportunities and challenges facing client organizations. From HR studies that maximize efficiency to health consulting and our energy management program, our team of consultants are ready to help you maximize efficiency and increase the impact of your resources. Learn more about how we offer consulting the KBS way.
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### Who We Serve
KBS exclusively supports the needs of public entities, including school districts, local and county governments, and community hospitals. With our parent company being the Kansas Association of School Boards, a portion of all KBS profits are reinvested into the support of public education. At KBS, we believe in building lasting partnerships based on more than just a transaction of services and financial resources. Our firm is your guide through your insurance journey. A true community connected insurance and consulting broker.
##### Education
##### Community Hospitals
##### Local Government
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## Get in Touch
1420 SW Arrowhead Road
Topeka, KS 66604
844-763-0535
info@thekbsway.com
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### The KBS Way
### KBS - A Company With a Purpose
KBS was launched in 2021 as a wholly owned subsidiary after a 34-year existence within the Kansas Association of School Boards. At KBS, we believe in doing things differently. We are focused on serving public entities as they work to provide the best possible insurance and benefit programs to the employees who transform their communities daily.
1987
Parent company launches Workers Comp Pool
2016
KASB Risk Management was formed
2017
2018
KRMG starts offering consulting programs
KRMG Launches Employee Benefits Solutions
2021
KBS Founded as a stand alone company
Parent company establishes a property casualty program
2011
KRMG launches a Student Accident Solution
KRMG establishes strategic partnership with P&C pool.
2020
KBS reaches 85% market share with K12 institutions in Kansas
2024
### Who We Are
As your guide, KBS focuses on ensuring that you have coverage and solutions for every point on your risk management compass. The compass reveals the various areas of liability and risk that public entities should protect. All of our services support at least one of the four points:
Employees, Students, Buildings, and Benefits.
### What Is "The KBS Way"?
Customer Service is rooted in our DNA. KBS was founded on the idea that our clients come first. That philosophy is truly at the foundation of who we are and how we operate. Each potential path connected to your insurance journey can very quickly become a commoditized decision. While economics are certainly a positive outcome of the work we do, we believe that the “how and why" drives the “what” in this equation. We are able to create cost-effective, sustainable, and efficient solutions by focusing on our process, our clients, and our shared values.
### Assist
with a rigorous review of insurance options and risk management strategies to bring the best benefit to our clients.
### Recommend
suitable programs that allow our clients to prioritize resources to support organizational success.
### Create
strategic partnerships that provide value through additional insurance and benefit solutions.
### Monitor
legislative actions for any potential impact on our clients and implications for KBS products or services.
The KBS way is focused on your insurance journey. We have created easy-to-use solutions that put the power in your hands. Our promise is simple. KBS will provide you with consulting, insurance, and benefits solutions custom-built for public entities just like yours. Together, we will free up resources that help you better serve your communities.
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Kansas Association of School Boards is our parent company. Your success is your community’s success, and our success is student success – that is a purpose we can all get behind.
Our Team
### Meet the Team
The KBS team combines decades of experience in support of our clients. Our team of experts is driven by a passion to help public entities achieve their goals, transform their communities, and provide quality support for their staff. Whether you are looking for a sales executive, consultant, or account manager, the KBS team is here to help.
### Rod Spangler
CEO & Co-Founder
### Jeremy Woydziak
Chief Sales and Operations Officer & Co-Founder
### Dr. Brian Jordan
Chairman of the Board
### Available Services
KBS is proud to offer a range of services covering your insurance, benefits, and consulting needs. Learn more about how we offer complete coverage of an organizations risk management profile by clicking the buttons below.
### Inspire With KBS
### A Keynote for the People
Most keynote speakers are simply incredible. We've all heard the inspiring messages from an 18-time Olympic Athlete who went to space, served in the U.S. Senate, negotiated cease-fires in war zones and climbs Mt. Everest on the weekends. They sweep into a ballroom with their chiseled bodies, perfect hair, and tell us that anyone can be just like them and that books are being sold in the lobby.
Rod Spangler is a different kind of keynote speaker. He was a mildly athletic collegiate golfer, primarily flies coach, and prefers to look at mountains from base camp, as long as the base camp includes a 4-star hotel and full service bar. Rod has no merchandise to sell and wouldn't write a book if you asked him to. His most successful negotiations happen at car dealerships and his international travel is restricted to all-inclusive resorts.
He can't claim to be a jet setting, world conquering rock star. But Rod is someone we can all connect with and learn from. What makes him incredible is that we actually can live like him.
He's a husband, father, son, and active member of the Topeka, KS community. He's a cancer survivor who knows what it is like to stare down lifes most difficult moments and struggle to find hope. He rides his motorcycle to the lake on his weekends so he can build human connections with the people he loves. Rod accidentally got into the insurance industry out of college. Despite 27 years of effort, he hasn't found a way out. Now he is the co-founder and CEO of a fast-growing insurance firm that works every day to support the needs of K-12 educators. In every setting, Rod spends his time encouraging people to focus on the power of grace, love, generosity and the need for human based connections in our increasingly digital and divisive world.
His keynote has inspired thousands of Kansas educators over the years. Through stories of his own journey and insight into the life of his wife, a career-long teacher, Rod will make you laugh, cry, think, and dream all in the course of an hour or less. He offers a credible reminder that the world shines brighter if we all focus on finding the best in each eachother. He reminds us that above all else, human connections matter.
* It matters when you are buying a car
* It matters when you are raising kids
* It matters with co-workers
* It certainly matters when faced with your own mortality
The ability to show grace and connect with the people around us is a gift offered free of charge. There is nothing easier to obtain and share than a generous world-view that puts people first. We're all happier when we make others happy, so why we do make grace filled transactions so hard and full of contingencies? If you are looking for answers to those questions that inspire an audience and give them the boost they need to set and achieve their goals, Rod will do the job. Not through stories of Herculean feats or messages that feel foreign and unachievable. Rod inspires through every day actions that make life just a little bit better, and so can you.
Meet with Rod
### Learn About Rod Spangler
Learn about Rod and his journey to KBS, his passion, and his why.
### Insurance Suite
### Complete Coverage. Staggeringly Simple.
KBS offers a wide variety of insurance solutions that support the unique needs of schools as well as the public entities including governments and hospitals. Whether you are looking for a new insurance consultant or a specific type of coverage, the KBS way includes an option for you.
### Insurance Solutions
As your guide, KBS focuses on ensuring that you have coverage and solutions for every point on your risk management compass. The compass reveals the various areas of liability and risk that schools should protect. All of our services support at least one of the four points: Employees, Students, Buildings, and Benefits.
KBS offers a full suite of insurance programs for public entities, with many programs specifically built for K-12 institutions. From protecting the infrastructure that makes your operations possible, to the people who make the magic happen, we have insurance programs that are built specifically for you. Because we exclusively work with public entities, our solutions have been designed to meet the unique needs of schools, governments and hospitals.
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### Let Us Be Your Guide
Let KBS be your guide on the insurance journey. Take a walk along the path and learn more about how we can provide you with the programs critical to your success while leaving your staff free to focus on their core responsibilities and your mission.
### Supporting Your Greatest Assets
Supporting employees and the people you serve is incredibly important. Organizations increasingly utilize benefits and insurance packages to differentiate themselves from the field and better retain staff. Just as important, schools can protect students and their families. We support employees and students with the following insurance programs:
* Workers Compensation Insurance\*\*
* Supplemental Employee Benefits
* Section 125 Compliance
* Student Accident Insurance\*\*
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### Insuring Your Infrastructure
The buildings we work and serve our communities in are vital to the success of our organizations. They are also massive financial resources and losses due to storms, accidents, or other loss events can be devastating. KBS helps the education market protect their infrastructure through a strategic partnership with Kansas Insurance Cooperative for Schools (KICS)
* Property Casualty Insurance
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### Helping You Support Your Staff
As an employer, the legal requirements and best practices associated with insurance and benefits can be overwhelming. KBS is here to help employers of all sizes navigate these murky waters and find solutions that work for them, their staff, and their community. We support employers through the following insurance-related programs:
* Consulting on your core employer benefits: Medical/Vision/Dental
* Employee Benefit Administration
* Section 125 Compliance​
### Complete Coverage for Your Team
The journey is not done when you purchase insurance policies. The modern world of employee benefits is constantly evolving. Today, human capital expects robust benefit packages that are easy to access, utilize, and understand. By combining a benefit package that offers complete coverage for employees and their families, with an easy-to-use online enrollment system, KBS is revolutionizing the way that public entities support their staff. We guide you in the process of both procuring insurance and making policies useful to your team. With KBS, you get complete coverage custom-built just for you.
What Clients Say...
> "...We achieve 100% online enrollment annually; process quick, easy and paperless mid-year changes; have access to amazing reporting capabilities; and receive the best customer service around!..."
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