Joshua W. Desha

Risk Strategies Company

I've been in the Employee Benefits world since 2007 and I'm excited to now partner with Risk Strategies as Vice President of Business Development.  My years in this industry have taught me a lot, and the most important lesson I've learned is this:  More than anything else, employees, employers, C-level executives, owners, and HR leaders deserve a partner who...

💪 Understands the Benefits world and keeps up with innovation.
💪 Takes the time to really get to know (and WANTS to know) their company/industry/business.
💪 Willingly walks their clients through a REAL and INNOVATIVE long-term strategic benefits system based upon the needs of their employees, and the company financially.

The sad fact is that the vast majority in this industry never take the time to do these things for and with their clients. It's one of the reasons benefit rates are consistently increasing, employee satisfaction is at an all time low, and brokers are forced to move from carrier to carrier begging for a better deal. 

If you are a company and you are looking for a partner, a real partner, that will walk with you through this minefield of Employee Benefits, then let's talk.

Vice President of Business Development

The Leadership Lighthouse

The Leadership Lighthouse aims to be a beacon of hope, visibility, and leadership within each and every community. We help leaders lead.

Head of Operations

🔥 Helping Employees reduce their healthcare costs (Access to Doctors, Therapists, and 425+ generic drugs at NO COST) 🎯 Allowing Employers the chance to lower overall Health Insurance Spend 🙌🏼 🙏🏼 Benefits Nerd 🤓

𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗮𝗺 𝗜❓𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗸 “𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲” 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁❗



I am one of the leading employee benefit experts on Linkedin. As an accomplished professional, I've worked with individuals and corporations alike.  
 
I believe to be genuinely GREAT you MUST stand out and be different!

Leaders in our industry should...
 
👊🏼 Stop being boring and ordinary!
👊🏼 Learn what matters to others FIRST.
👊🏼 Know your customer's story and needs better than they do.
👊🏼 Figure out how to put it all together for a long term/sustainable business strategy.
 
► 𝗔 𝗳𝗲𝘄 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀:
 
🔥Worked with hundreds of different businesses on strategic benefits planning.
🔥Led a team of 21 offices to business growth of 218% within 12 months.
🔥12-time Presidents Club winner in 2 different industries.
🔥I've started 2 companies from the ground up.
🔥11 Industry Elite Award trips.
🔥Took a team of young salespeople and turned them into the highest producing team in the company's history.

► 𝑾𝒉𝒚 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒆:

💰  I'm somewhat of an Employee Benefits sharp-shooter.  Being in the business since 2007, I've seen it all.  
💰  I can speak in movie quotes and still get my point across.

💰  I'm an all-around good guy.  :)  And hey, that seems to be missing in today's world, right?
 
► 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒂𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒆:

☎️   512-876-4677
📩   jdesha@risk-strategies.com
💬   DM me here on Linkedin
🐤   Carrier Pidgeon (just tell it to go to "THAT DUDE" and it will get to me)

Director of Sales

Revive Health is Virtual Healthcare 2.0.  Stop spending so much money on healthcare and health insurance. We facilitate rapid and easy access to affordable, quality care and prescription medications. Our membership plans start at less than $1/day.

Audacix

Ever noticed how every pen test report means weeks of lost developer productivity and delayed feature releases? 

Most SaaS teams lose 20-30% of their dev time to security tasks IF they stick to the traditional pentest security approach. 

I help growth-hungry SaaS teams automate security tests & help devs patch rapidly so they have more time to build new features.

The results? Our clients:
- Cut security fix time by 63%
- Reduce vulnerabilities shipped by 65% within 3-6 months
- Keep shipping features while security runs in background
- Close enterprise deals faster with ready security proof
- Save $$$ on security team hiring costs so they can hire more devs

How? By giving your team:
- A repeatable 5-pillar system to build sustainable AppSec structures, called MAP
- Code snippets for instant vulnerability fixes
- Expert coaching on-demand, when they're stuck
- Automated security that runs in the background while they build
- Ready-to-share security proof for enterprise deals

Think of it as application and cloud security that helps you grow, instead of slowing you down.

Helping fast-growing SaaS teams like Wahed, Clevertap, RudderStack, and hundreds more to turn security from a bottleneck into a growth lever.

Worth a chat?

Co-Founder & Director

Qsome

Qsome reduces your software testing time from weeks to hours. 

It's a cloud-based solution that automates functional testing for any application, on any device, in any environment. And it does all this using AI, without anyone having to write any code.

Our software testing tools, RPA frameworks and people can help your dev and delivery teams acheive many of the goals that may have seemed out of reach until now.

This will work for you whether you're testing packaged apps like SAP, Oracle EBS, JD Edwards or custom apps and APIs.

Worth a chat?

Bhaap.com

It was good to get an exit with a very respectable ROI on my first entrepreneurial venture! Bhaap was a great journey full of amazing learnings and incredible experiences. 

Bhaap.com brought Indian online shoppers revolutionary shopping experience using the event buying format where they savvy online shoppers can get the brands they want at prices they love. Check out Bhaap.com for steaming hot daily deals on branded mobiles, electronics, cosmetics, jewellery, fashion accessories, homewares & lots more!

Co-Founder & MD

Melbourne Business School

Full Time MBA Student

Medibank Private

Senior Strategy Analyst

DC Strategy

Management Consultant

Ernst & Young

Senior Consultant

Co-founder Audacix 🏆 DevSecOps for slick software brands that want to build trust like IBM so they can sell like Apple

You don't need another penetration test. You need a way to help your develpers fix vulnerabilities faster so that they can get back to building fancy new features.

I show B2B SaaS CTOs & software engineering managers how they can help their devs deploy fast with enterprise-ready security built in to every release. 

Forget the buzzwords. Forget the fear mongering (I already know you don't trust your security posture). 

If you want real strategies and solutions that have worked for scale-ups across the world, then DM me.

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