In the early 90s, Dan said to Jeff, “there’s a better way to take care of our clients.” Those few words from that brief conversation became the forward-thinking foundation for Stratford that still guides us today in our practice areas of employee benefits and human resources. The Stratford Financial Group, Inc. and Stratford Employer Services, LLC. were founded in 1997 and have become one of the area’s leading firms providing group insurance consulting, online benefits administration, compliance, human resources support workforce management and payroll processing.

Our mission is to passionately maintain a continued sense of responsibility to employers and their employees. We strive to be first-to-market with new products, new ideas, and new strategies that provide time and money saving opportunities. We are perennial industry leaders in understanding and advising our clients in legislative and regulatory affairs, allowing for a consistently secure sense of employee benefits and human resources compliance and administration.

We accomplish our mission by tapping into the education, training, creativity, and experience of our dedicated team of employees. In other words, we utilize our people to provide a better experience for your people.

We are proud that our highly educated team maintains the following designations:

• Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR)
• Professional in Human Resources (PHR)
• Certified Self-Funded Specialist (CSFS)
• Certified Healthcare Reform Specialist (CHRS)
• Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU)
• Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC)